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TD-Jana Sena Government Offers to Supply Power at Rs 1.50 Per Unit to Aqua Sector

Kakinada: Telugu Desam chief Nara Chandrababu Naidu has promised the aqua farmers that the government of TD and Jana Sena would supply power at Rs 1.50 paise per unit to the aqua sector and restore its past glory. public meeting at Achanta in West Godavari district on Sunday, Naidu said, “Our coalition government would take action against the YSRC leaders …

Kakinada: The tribal farmers of Angaluru village in Devipatnam mandal of Alluri Sitarama Raju district are left high and dry without any compensation for the lands the government acquired to set up a power plant near the Polavaram Irrigation Project. The government issued the land acquisition notification in 2008 and acquired 44 acres of land from 38 farmers to construct …

Seven units of Polavaram power project likely to be commissioned in 2024-25

Special Chief Secretary K. Vijayanand has said that Andhra Pradesh was at the forefront of promoting Pumped Storage Hydropower Projects. Techno-commercial feasibility reports have been prepared for setting up PSHPs having a potential to generate 33,240 Megawatts at 29 locations, out of which projects with 5,000 MW capacity would be established by AP-Genco with the support of National Hydro Power …

Storage Power Vijayanand Pshp

VISAKHAPATNAM: Palakollu MLA Nimmala Rama Naidu said if the Telugu Desam was in power in the state, it would have completed the Polavaram project by December 2020 but under the present dispensation it was uncertain if the project would be completed even by 2030. Addressing a press conference in Visakhapatnam on Saturday, the TD legislator said the project was jinxed …

Vijayawada: The state’s bifurcation stalled execution of the multipurpose Polavaram irrigation project mainly due to inadequate funds. AP maintains that TS’s power dues have gone up to â‚¹7,102 crore, including principal amount of â‚¹3,441 crore and interest from June 2, 2014 to June 10, 2017 with â‚¹43 crore getting added every month as interest on the principal amount. Meanwhile, the …

HYDERABAD: The top leadership of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi has warned its ministers, MLAs, MPs and others against raising issues of contention between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, a day after labour minister Ch. Malla Reddy told the media that the BRS would complete the Polavaram project if elected to power in AP. Rama Rao took a serious view of minister …

VIJAYAWADA: As Godavari river witnesses frequent floods, the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation will take up a survey on the status of the nearly 900 metres-stretch of the Polavaram project’s diaphragm wall in the first week of November. The 1,400 metres-length diaphragm wall built across Godavari river at a depth of 10 to 90 metres on the riverbed and about 500 …

VIJAYAWADA: A joint team of experts from National Hydroelectric Power Corporation, Polavaram Project Authority and Indian Institute of Technology inspected the extent of damage caused to diaphragm wall of Polavaram dam at the project site in Eluru district on Tuesday. Bharati, PPA deputy director Praveen and IIT expert Sandeep, along with AP water resources officials, examined status of the diaphragm …