The Delhi meeting of the high power committee headed by CEA Chairman Neerja Mathur delivered the expected result. It made no headway and couldn’t set right AP’s defiance of allocations made in AP Reorg Act to the 2 states. Instead, it granted AP’s wish for additional power of 65 MW from Central Generating Stations. Telangana agreed to part with that power prior to the meeting itself. AP was arguing about the disparity that cropped up in the allocation of power from the CGS to the 2 states and that based on usage of power for last 5 years, AP merits an additional allocation of 1.77 %. So AP’s share is increased from 46.11 per cent to 47.88 per cent while Telangana’s share decreased ...

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