Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has stressed the need to put in place a comprehensive power policy in the State.
He favoured an in-depth study of the policies that are being implemented in different States in consultation with experts for evolving the new energy policy for the State. The Chief Minister made this remarks while reviewing the power situation in the State with senior Energy department officials on Wednesday.
The meeting discussed about the energy consumption, uninterrupted power supply round the clock, generation capacity of the power plants as well as steps that should be taken to explore new avenues for enhancing power generation. The more than two-hour-long meeting discussed about the steps that should be taken to fulfil the promise of providing free power to households upto 200 units given by the Congress in the run-up to the previous Assembly elections.
