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Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka has accused immoderate governmental parties of spreading mendacious propaganda to mislead farmers and said that ‘Free powerfulness for farmers is the Congress party’s patent right.’
The Congress authorities volition honour its committedness of escaped powerfulness to farmers and volition not deviate from its commitments, helium said portion addressing a gathering aft inaugurating a 33/11KV powerfulness substation on with Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageshwara Rao successful Khammam connected Sunday (June 07).
To supply escaped energy to 30 lakh cultivation pump sets ,the Finance section pays astir ₹1,150 crore each period — astir ₹1,400 crore annually — to the powerfulness utilities connected behalf of farmers. The authorities calculates each portion consumed and reimburses the Electricity section accordingly, helium noted.
Likewise, the authorities provides up to 200 units of escaped energy each period to astir 53 lakh mediocre and middle-class households crossed the State. The authorities bears the afloat outgo of the scheme.
He said: “As portion of powerfulness assemblage reforms, the authorities is adjacent prepared to found a abstracted Farmer DISCOM, if indispensable to amended service the cultivation sector.”
He accused immoderate governmental parties of spreading misinformation by claiming that the Congress authorities would instal energy meters for farmers. He recalled Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy’s beardown challenge: “If we ever instal meters for farmers, we volition not contention elections. We volition proceed providing escaped energy without meters. Free powerfulness for farmers is the Congress party’s patent right. If we proceed supplying escaped energy without meters, volition those spreading mendacious propaganda halt contesting elections oregon apologise to the radical of Telangana?”
He emphasised that contempt a emergence of 3,500 MW successful highest request implicit the past two-and-a-half years, the authorities ensured uninterrupted powerfulness supply. To conscionable aboriginal powerfulness requirement, the authorities is already readying indispensable powerfulness infrastructure, helium said, outlining the ambitious renewable vigor initiatives specified arsenic generating 20,000 MW of star powerfulness by 2030.
