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Bhongir Lok Sabha subordinate Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy and MLC Addanki Dayakar said the energy dues had accrued from ₹1,595 crore successful 2014 to ₹31,698 crore astatine present.
The Northern Power Distribution Company Limited (NPDCL), which ranked ninth successful the state successful 2014, had slipped to the 54th position, portion and Southern Power Distribution Company Limited (SPDCL) had fallen from 16th to 42nd spot during the BRS regime, severely hitting the powerfulness sector, Mr. Reddy said portion defending the State government’s connection to found a abstracted - Farmer Discom.
Participating successful the nationalist proceeding conducted by the Electricity Regulatory Commission (ERC), the Congress leaders accused the BRS of spreading misinformation and politicising the contented for constrictive governmental gains.
Mr Kiran Kumar Reddy said absorption parties were making speculative allegations without knowing the fiscal information of the powerfulness utilities. “The Farmer Discom is being introduced to fortify the existing powerfulness utilities and supply a reliable powerfulness proviso to the cultivation sector,” helium said. He alleged that the erstwhile BRS authorities had burdened the discoms with immense debts and the Congress authorities was present attempting to reconstruct fiscal discipline.
MLC Addanki Dayakar accused the erstwhile BRS authorities of pushing the discoms into a indebtedness trap by failing to wide subsidy and energy dues contempt repeatedly claiming recognition for escaped powerfulness proviso to farmers.
“The BRS authorities publicised escaped powerfulness schemes, but it did not wage the dues owed to the discoms, forcing them into monolithic debt,” Mr. Dayakar alleged. He besides clarified that the contented of astute meters had originated during the BRS tenure itself done agreements signed with the Union Ministry of Power successful 2017.
