The use of 10 HP capacity pumps for agriculture, as being suggested by some Congress leaders, would not only burden the farmers with high costs but also overburden the existing transmission and distribution network making it become defunct, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao said on Thursday.
With limited hours of power supply to farm sector, the use and switching on of all pumps at once would result in extremely high load not only on distribution transformers but also on the sub-stations leading to their upgradation with huge expenditure by the power utilities, Mr. Rao said, addressing election rallies at Maheshwaram, Vikarabad, Zaheerabad and Patancheru in support of BRS candidates P. Sabitha Indra Reddy, Dr. M. Anand, K. Manik Rao and G. Mahipal Reddy, respectively.
At Maheshwaram, he said the Strategic Nala Development Programme (SNDP) was the idea germinated from the efforts of Ms. Sabitha Reddy to save several residential areas in her constituency from submergence due to the backwater effect of encroached water bodies (minor irrigation tanks of the past). He assured to develop and IT park for minorities entrepreneurs in the Wakf land at Pahadishareef.
