No power cuts to industry: Jaju

Hyderabad: Telangana State Chief Secretary Sanjay Jaju said that no power cuts would be imposed on industries even as the power demand increased for agriculture and domestic sectors amid the El Nino weather conditions in the state. The Chief Secretary appealed to the managements of industrial units to stop worrying about the power supply. At the high-level review meet, the Chief Secretary instructed the Energy Department, although electricity generation in the state has not been encouraging, to supply power for agricultural, domestic as well as the industrial requirements.

He stated that no power cuts were being imposed on industries in the state and that industrial managements need not worry about electricity supply.

Following a report published in the Hans India recently on n the possible scheduled power cuts for industry, the TGSPDCL and TGNPDCL authorities also reviewed the power supply to the industry and submitted a report to the government on the requirement of power for industry in the wake of increasing power demand to more than 20,000 MW daily in the state in recent times. The government is according equal priority to industry in power supply, officials said.

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