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Telangana Rural Power Distribution Company Limited (TGRPDCL) Chairman and Managing Director Musharraf Ali Faruqui clarified that nary metering would beryllium introduced for cultivation consumers nether the projected Farmer Discom model.
Presenting the TGRPDCL lawsuit during discussions connected the projected Farmer Discom model, helium argued that the existing Telangana discoms were nether terrible fiscal stress, with accumulated losses reaching ₹69,741 crore by FY 2025. Government departments unsocial reportedly owed ₹54,090 crore successful outstanding arrears.
The connection besides highlighted operational inefficiencies, stating that Aggregate Technical and Commercial (AT&C) losses successful Telangana stood astatine astir 19.84% successful FY 2025, importantly higher than the nationalist mean and neighbouring States. While Telangana recorded astir 19.84% losses, Andhra Pradesh stood astatine 7.87%, Kerala astatine 6.61%, Karnataka astatine 11.92%, and Tamil Nadu astatine 10.96%.
According to the government, Telangana’s discoms presently clasp a “C-minus” standing successful the integrated show rankings issued by the Union Ministry of Power. The caller Discom was intended not to load farmers, but to fortify energy organisation and amended operational efficiency.
According to the proposal, the TGRPDCL volition found 2 dedicated Consumer Grievance Redressal Forums (CGRFs) for cultivation consumers and absorption specifically connected improving energy reliability, safety, and work prime for farmers.
Under the projected TGRPDCL framework, subsidised user categories including agriculture, assistance irrigation schemes, Mission Bhagiratha, Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB), and municipal h2o proviso systems would travel nether a abstracted organisation structure.
Mr Musharaff said TGRPDCL was based connected the “sectoral unbundling” rule and the exemplary aims to guarantee wide vigor accounting, transparent recognition of costs and losses, simplification of method and commercialized losses, and betterment successful the wide fiscal show and recognition ratings of discoms.
