Telangana Transco is in attempts to get additional power to power-starved Telangana State. Transco CMD is reported to have written to NTPC Chairman for getting an additional 300 MW that could be available with NTPC Jhajjar plant in Haryana. He is reported to have got a positive response. In addition, Government is readying guidelines to purchase power from the market to meet the State’s requirements.

What struck the analysts most about the Telangana Govt.’s response to AP CM Chandrababu Naidu’s moves to scrap PPAs and violate the AP Re-Organization Bill’s power-sharing law is it’s measured response. The reason is said to be the Chief Minister himself, who seemed to have brushed aside the AP CM’s actions of scrapping PPAs silly and juvenile and doesn’t deserve a war of words, when his officers suggested possible ‘retaliatory measures’ like scrapping coal linkages from Singareni to Andhra. He is reported to have instead ordered a toned-down public response and instead asked his office to work the lines with Union Power Ministry and the Southern Regional Load Dispatch Centre (SRLDC) in Bangalore .  This episode marks the seamless transformation of the agitation party ...

A review meeting on irrigation projects chaired by CM KCR decided for the State to file an implead petition before the Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal headed by retired SC Judge Brijesh Kumar for redistribution of waters between Telangana & AP. Earlier this year, the term of the tribunal has been extended to enable apportionment of water between Telangana and the successor state of Andhra Pradesh and the then Central govt. asked the tribunal to make the allocation on the basis of the projects located in each of the 2 States and its requirement of water. Telangana’s main concern at the tribunal would be that 3 of it’s key projects were not allocated any waters despite all of them being well with the Krishna ...

AP CM Chandrababu Naidu’s 2nd stint as CM of AP started with a jinx. He was expressing his dissatisfaction over how power is allocated between AP and Telangana as part of bifurcation process and how AP lost almost 1500MW due to the approach. Of course, Telangana Electricty Engineers led by K Raghu differed over this and proved the loss, if that term can be used at all, is at 340 MW. However, despite his dissatisfaction, Naidu has been maintaining that he would try getting additional power from Centre for AP’s needs and would not seek to grab power that is already allotted to Telangana as part of  AP Re-Organization Bill. On Wednesday, he did exactly the opposite. Upon Naidu’s direction, AP energy dept. ...

Here is the complete video of CM KCR’s spectacular speech in the historic 1st assembly session last week. The Chief Minister took the mike at 11.30 am and for the next 150 minutes, legislators cutting across all party lines, listened in rapt attention. We shared videos earlier in bits and pieces but here is the complete one. He steered the separate Telangana agitation single-handedly to its logical conclusion and now slipped effortlessly into the administrative role. Using the first available opportunity in the newly constituted Telangana Assembly, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao succeeded in sending the message across to the Opposition benches that he wished to take them along in steering the State of Telangana to all round development. Known ...