Power crisis: Telangana to persist with power generation
Telangana to continue to generate power despite courts ruling
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2014-11-05 03:31 GMT
Hyderabad: The Telangana government will not halt power generation at Srisailam, despite orders to do so and temporarily having halted generation on Tuesday. Meanwhile, AP state has made an offer to supply 300MW to power starved Telangana so that it stops generation, but Telangana is not biting the bait and will continue to generate power.
Telangana irrigation minister T. Harish Rao said that power generation will not be stopped at Srisailam and justified the state’s stand on generation saying that in the previous years, power generation was continued even upto 770ft water level.
Mr T. Harish Rao met Union minister for water resources, Uma Bharati and Piyush Goel in Delhi on Monday and complained about the Andhra Pradesh government’s stand. The AP irrigation minister D. Uma Maheswara Rao complained to the Union minister about Telangana continuing to generating power at Srisailam.
The current level of the reservoir stands at 855ft but the AP government’s objection to power generation at this level is that it will adversely affect future irrigation and power generation needs of the state.
Meanwhile, Telangana state despite being asked by the Krishna river management Board to stop power generation is not likely to stop.
“Power generation has never been stopped at the 855ft level at Srisailam in the last 20 years. In fact, generation has been continued even at 770ft level of the reservoir. We will not stop generation of 800MW of power for a bait of 300-MW being offered by AP ” said Mr Harish Rao.