Tension prevailed in Narsingi village of Chegunta mandal when the police resorted to lathi-charge on the farmers, who were holding a rasta-roko on national highway No 44 protesting against erratic power supply to the agriculture. The farmers were protesting they don’t even an hour of power supply for last 1 week. Due to the road blockade, vehicular traffic came to stand still on the Hyderabad, Nizamabad roads with the stir of the farmers. When the police tried clearing up the blockade, the rasta-roko turned violent. Angry with disproportionate force used by CI Gandadhar of Ramayampet, the farmers pelted him with stones. Police vehicles and RTC buses too were stoned by the farmers. Several farmers received injuries in the lathi- charge. This kharif ...

The High-Power Committee headed by CEA Chairman Neerja Mathur is meeting today in Delhi. This is the committee’s second meeting, which was supposed to be held On July 30. The meeting was post-posted as Telangana officials were unavailable that day, due to their trip to Chhattisgarh to finalize the power purchase between TS and Chhattisgarh. The Committee has meanwhile sent to both states draft of it’s recommendations based on the arguments presented in the first meeting on July 14. It reportedly rejected the cancellation move of AP Government with regard to the PPAs and upheld TS share in power generated in AP too, as per the norms set by AP Reorganisation Act. AP took objection to this position of the ...

Telangana just got a breath of fresh air as the Centre’s committee decided AP is wrong in denying Telangana it’s share of power. The decision should come as a relief to Telangana which is mired under huge power deficit, thanks to AP’s misadventure. The high power committee headed by CEA Chairman Neeraj Mathur reportedly came to the conclusion that AP has violated the AP Reorganisation Act in letter and spirit by unilaterally canceling the Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) and refusing to let Telangana use it’s share of power - 53.89 per cent. The CEA’s decision is a severe blow to the unethical behavior of AP Govt. which put Telangana to tremendous hardship by forcing it to undergo big power-cuts by choking it without ...

Only yesterday, Telangana Talkies carried  a story on the circumstances surrounding transfer of Prinicpal Secretary (Energy), Mr. Suresh Chanda and wondered whose job would the next meeting cost. And yellow media created a good story around that inconsequential transfer to put the state government in bad light. Right from day 1, there was criticism of that officer’s lack of enthusiasm to understand and defend Telangana’s interests. While conceding away power as per AP’s wishes, like in the area of unconventional energy generation, the Secretary’s unspirited defense costed another 65 MW in the CEA meeting in Delhi. As we reported, he was booted out the next day. The TEEJAC wanted him out as his stint costed Telangana a whopping 1350 MW! They ...

Irrigation minister Harish Rao lashed out at Telangana Congress leaders who have criticized the 2 month old TRS Government. Pointing that the criticism of the Govt. from Ponnala Lakshmaiah, K Jana Reddy is only to show their political presence, the minister what these 2 ex-ministers in 2 successive Congress governments were doing while YSR moved all power projects to AP. The minister asked the senior Congress leaders why they didn’t book the power grid at least for Telangana’s future while Tamil Nadu was doing every effort. As we know, Tamil Nadu did the advance booking for 1000 MW years ago and their is hardly 250 MW for 4 southern states rom the North South grid. Last ditch efforts by Telangana Government ...