‘Special teams set up to address power supply complaints’

Deputy Chief Minister and Power Minister Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu has condemned the false propaganda resorted to by BRS leaders for political mileage when there is uninterrupted power supply in the State even during peak demand hours.
The Deputy CM said 226 special teams were constituted to address complaints on power interruption in GHMC limits. An integrated command control centre was set up in Hyderabad to supervise power supply continuously. The Command Control Centre was working continuously to resolve any issue, he asserted.
Sharing the data on power supply, Bhatti said in the last five months the Congress government supplied more power than supplied by the previous government in the same period last year. While 36,207 million units of power was supplied from December, 2022 to April end 2023, after Congress came to power, 38,155 million units of power was supplied from December 2023 to April 30, 2024.
The Congress government has the record of supplying 15,497 MW peak demand supply, he said. With the temperatures reaching 45 degrees Celcius, power demand was naturally increasing. Sometimes due to increase in load here and there technical problems would arise and power would trip. Such instances were being addressed immediately by the electricity dept staff, he said.
Citing examples from last year when BRS was in power, Bhatti said last year from April 24 to April 30, 1,369 power trippings on 11kv lines occurred in GHMC limits. In that one week, power supply was interrupted for 580 hours.
Now this year in the same one week period 11 kv power lines tripped 272 times and power supply was interrupted only for 89 hours, he said.
Similarly for the same period last year 301 transformers failed and this year 193 tranformers failed. They were also replaced by new ones. What more proof one would need to show that this government was providing better power supply compared to previous BRS government, Bhatti pointed out. What reply BRS leaders would give now?
  He said here on Friday that people rejected the BRS leader’s campaign during Assembly elections that there would be no power if Congress was elected and taught them a lesson. Yet the BRS leaders did not mend their ways even after people rejected them, Bhatti Vikramarka said.