Hyderabad sources have stated that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao the government has fixed a target of increasing the installed generation capacity to 28,000 MW with an investment of Rs 94,000 crore. Meanwhile he told the state assembly that when Telangana was created the installed capacity was 6,574 MW, a deficit of 2,700 MW. He claimed that during last three and half years additional 7,981 MW capacity was commissioned.
Meanwhile he recalled that when the state was formed there was severe crisis in power sector with two to nine hour power cuts for domestic sector every day and two day power holidays in a week for industries and also announced that Telangana has created new record in the country by supplying quality power free of cost for 24 hours to the agricultural sector.
Further KCR, as Rao is popularly known, said that
with the 24 hour supply to agriculture sector, the total power demand will
increase to 11,000 MW and power utilities were ready to meet this demand and
said the new lift irrigation projects also require 8,500 MW of power. The new
power plants will meet the demand for lift irrigation projects and new
industries being established in the state.
