Sanction free power connection to every eligible farmer, A.P. Energy Minister Ravi Kumar tells officials
Mr. Ravi Kumar instructed the officials to resolve any issues that were impeding the sanction of agricultural power connections, the demand for which was growing, and told them to ensure that not even a single eligible farmer was deprived of the benefit of free power connection.
Mr. Ravi Kumar told the officials to take all steps required to prevent unscheduled power cuts, and to give prior information about them to the public under unavoidable circumstances, and wanted pending power projects to be completed at the earliest. He told the CMDs to expedite the PM Surya Ghar programme and the RDSS projects.
Central Discom CMD P. Pulla Reddy was present, and his counterparts I. Prudhvi Tej (EPDCL) and K. Santosh Rao (SPDCL) participated virtually.
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