₹400 crore to strengthen power supply in Nellore district: APSPDCL chief

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Under the Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme (RDSS) introduced by the Centre, Andhra Pradesh Southern Power Distribution Company Limited (APSPDCL) is modernising and strengthening the powerfulness proviso strategy successful SPSR Nellore territory astatine ₹400 crore. These works are progressing astatine a accelerated gait nether the supervision of its operation department, according to the discom.

The RDSS is simply a Government of India programme launched to amended the quality, reliability and affordability of energy proviso done fiscal sustainability and operational ratio of powerfulness organisation companies. The enactment of the archetypal instrumentality substation is being taken up up successful Nellore to trim powerfulness outages and guarantee uninterrupted proviso done modern technology.

APSPDCL Chief General Manager (Projects) J. Ramana Devi made a astonishment inspection of the RDSS works successful Pottepalem, Devarapalem, Kommalapudi and Siddipuram villages successful Nellore Rural part connected Friday (September 20). Later, she conducted a reappraisal gathering with enforcement engineers and different officials astatine superintending engineer’s enclosure astatine Vidyut Bhawan connected the advancement of the works.

So far, 288 transformers of 100 kVA, 356 transformers of 63 kVA and 182 transformers of 25 kVA were acceptable up successful the targeted villages. Out of 2,821 km of 11 KV line, 1,552 km has been completed, retired of 1,117 km of 5-wire LT line, 285 km has been completed and retired of 771 km of 3-wire LT line, 216 km has been completed wrong the scope of 139 substations, she said.

According to APSPDCL elder official, farmers successful villages volition get round-the-clock uninterrupted proviso of prime three-phase powerfulness erstwhile these works are completed. The velocity of agrarian energy connections volition summation significantly. The caller transformers and modern 11KV and LT lines volition amended voltage stableness during load peaks.

With three-phase energy proviso provided to each village, determination volition beryllium scope for mounting up of tiny and mean standard industries, acold storages, workshops and processing units. Rural industries volition beryllium established with debased investment, and employment opportunities volition beryllium created for section youth. New avenues volition unfastened up for economical improvement and industrialisation, she added.

Published - September 20, 2025 07:05 p.m. IST

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