CM KCR urges farmers to remove Auto starters before January 1

Hyderabad Nov 20: The Telangana Government has achieved another feat as the 24 X7 power to all the agriculture sector trial was completed successfully.The government said that it would supply free uninterrupted power from January 1.

CM KCR has praised the officials and has also issued guidelines that need to be followed by farmers so that free power cannot be misused. he has also instructed officials to conduct a special drive to remove auto-starters on agriculture pump sets from December 5 and urged the Officers and public representatives to educate the farmers on the need to remove auto-starters to conserve groundwater levels.

The electricity officials said that "Power was supplied to nearly 23 lakh pump sets across the State and we have decided to resume nine-hour power supply commencing from the intervening night of November 20 and 21 (Monday midnight)."

TSTransco and TSGenco chairman and managing director D Prabhakar Rao met the Chief Minister at Pragathi Bhavan on Sunday and has explained the preparations for the 24×7 power supply and also necessary precautions to make it a success.