Minister orders clearing of pending agricultural power connections

Energy Minister Gottipati Ravi Kumar. | Photo Credit: File Photo

Energy Minister Gottipati Ravi Kumar has directed officials to instantly authorisation each pending cultivation powerfulness connections crossed the State. During a teleconference with the CMDs of DISCOMs connected Monday, Mr. Ravi Kumar instructed them to instrumentality steps to guarantee uninterrupted powerfulness proviso to domestic, commercialized and concern consumers passim the season. The Minister stated that contempt the rising energy request during summer, consumers should not look immoderate inconvenience and officials indispensable guarantee continuous and reliable powerfulness supply. Mr. Ravi Kumar further directed that successful the lawsuit of immoderate method responsibility starring to powerfulness interruptions, consumers should beryllium informed instantly and restoration works should beryllium taken up connected a warfare footing to resoluteness issues astatine the earliest. Considering the prevailing upwind conditions and utmost temperatures, helium cautioned that incidents specified arsenic transformer failures might  hap astatine respective places. He besides reviewed the advancement of cardinal Central and State authorities schemes, including PM Surya Ghar, PM Kusum, and RDSS, and instructed officials to execute the targets wrong stipulated timelines.

Published - May 18, 2026 11:24 p.m. IST