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Endless wait for Reliance gas

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: There seems to be no end to the wait by the State government for gas from Reliance. The gas from the onshore facilities of the Krishna-Godavari basin belonging to the Reliance Industries Limited continues to be elusive like a mirage.

Officials of the APTransco who kept high hopes on the deadlines set by the RIL to make its gas available to the State, are now crestfallen. All their plans of activating four newly completed gas-based power stations which were kept idle for want of gas have gone haywire.

Now, the Transco has been forced to opt for naphtha, operate four existing power stations to spare the gas allotted to them for an equal number of newly completed projects.

If Reliance gas is available to the completed project which has a combined capacity of 1,499 MW, the State would have been surplus in power. Till date, there has been no communication from the government about the timing of the arrival of the Reliance gas.

Going by the feedback from the RIL, the government last year announced it would get the Reliance gas by June 2008, but this deadline was postponed later to December and now to April 2009.

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