Govt. has no plan to hand over RTPP to NTPC, says Srikant
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Energy Secretary N. Srikant on Thursday asserted that the federal government had no plan to hand over the Rayalaseema Thermal Power Plant (RTPP) to the NTPC and that it had communicated in writing its opposition to the Electricity (Amendment Bill), 2020.
Energy Minister Balineni Srinivasa Reddy had already clarified that the federal government wished to have the facility utilities within the public sector to safeguard the pursuits of the shoppers and workers, Mr. Srikant noticed.
Subsidy arrears
In a evaluation assembly with the officers, Mr. Srikant stated that out of the subsidy arrears of ₹13,391 crore pending disbursal to the Discoms as on March 31, 2019, the federal government launched ₹8,655 crore in 2019-20 and ₹9,249 crore in the direction of the subsidy introduced in 2019-20 and different fees.
The authorities additionally launched ₹20,384 crore to the Discoms for clearing the facility generator payments pending as on March 31, 2019. The whole payments cleared by the Discoms amounted to ₹34,384 crore in 2019-20.
Mr. Srikant additional stated the federal government supposed to arrange the ten,000 MW solar energy plant to guarantee free energy provide to the agriculture sector for the subsequent 30 years. It could be bearing your complete expenditure because it didn’t need to impose contemporary burden on the ailing utilities.
“The government has recruited 7,000 junior linemen and 172 assistant engineers to provide better services to the consumers,” Mr. Srikant added.
AP-Transco Joint Managing Directors K. Sreedhar Reddy and K. Venkateswara Rao and CMDs of Dsicoms S. Naga Lakshmi, H. Haranatha Rao and J. Padma Janardhana Reddy had been amongst these current.
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