Give YTPS O&M work to Genco: Power staff JAC urges Genco CMD

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The Telangana State Power Employees’ Joint Action Committee (TGPEJAC) has requested Chairman and Managing Director of the Telangana Power Generation Corporation Ltd (TG-Genco) S. Harish to driblet the connection to outsource the cognition and attraction (O&M) of Stage-II of the Yadadri Thermal Power Station (YTPS) — 3×800 megawatt retired of the full 5×800 MW.

A delegation of the JAC, led by president G. Saibabu and convenor P. Rathnakar Rao, met the CMD present connected Friday and made a practice connected the issue. They brought to the CMD’s announcement that the Genco engineers person expertise and acquisition successful the O&M of thermal plants and it was they who had commissioned the KTPS-VII 800 MW portion successful 48 months and maintained it.

They stated that portion 1 and 2 of YTPS were commissioned already and into commercialized operation, portion 4 was commissioned connected Thursday (January 8). Work connected the commissioning of the remaining 2 units was besides successful afloat swing. While the archetypal 2 units formed portion of Stage-I, the different 3 units marque it Stage-II of YTPS.

Stating that the absorption was seemingly considering handing implicit O&M of Stage-II to BHEL, they said the nationalist assemblage undertaking has expertise successful the areas of design, manufacturing and erection of powerfulness procreation instrumentality and not successful their O&M. They besides don’t person capable manpower to instrumentality up regular O&M of powerfulness plants and they could perchance further outsource the bureau to different backstage agency.

They urged the CMD to handover the O&M of YTPS 2 stages to the Genco engineers rationalising the manpower crossed the Genco presumption since they were adequately trained to grip implicit O&M works of powerfulness procreation units efficaciously and efficiently.

Published - January 09, 2026 09:17 p.m. IST

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