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Yet Again, AP Rejects Advice To Correct It’s PPA Stand

While AP CM Chandrababu Naidu makes all positive noises about solving issues through dialogue with his TS counterpart, he continues to play the negative role in adhering to the AP Reorganisation Act or to the advice of Central Government bodies. Only yesterday the ERC rejected AP’s ‘PPA Cancellation’ exercise in a detailed report. Today, AP rejected those findings and continued to insist the PPAs are cancelled and so it can’t share power with Telangana.

The AP Reorganisation Act ensured 53 per cent of the available supply to the new state while AP refuses to abide by it. AP has rejected guidelines from CEA, APERC, LDC, Union Power Ministry in the PPA issue till now and seems in no mood to abide by any law, when it comes to Telangana.

AP government spokesperson Parakala Prabhakar said APERC’s action was devoid of any legal sanctity as both the governments had constituted their own state electricity regulators as stated in the Schedule 12 of the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014, by August 1 itself.

He also claimed the regulatory body is not following normal procedures such as taking the views of the parties involved before delivering the said order. Both AP and TS presented their arguments in June to the APERC. So Parakala’s claim in wrong.

According to Prabhakar, the 12th schedule of the Act allowed the two states to constitute their own electricity regulators within six months from the date of bifurcation. Telangana and Andhra Pradesh had issued orders for the constitution of new regulatory commissions by the end of July this year. In the light of this, the existing APERC ceases to exist and is not competent to deliver any order, he argued.

The Centre constituted a committee headed by CEA Chairman Neerja Mathur to look into this dispute as the AP government continued to maintain that there was no legal basis to honour these PPAs as they had expired long ago. The CEA Committee too ruled in favor of Telangana. AP rejected it then. Now it rejected the APERC’s recommendations.

With active support from centre, AP’s ruling establishment looks unstoppable in its misadventures and violations.

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