The Hindu : For State, TN bandh a gain

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Thursday, Oct 10, 2002

Southern States

Southern States - Andhra Pradesh

For State, TN bandh a gain

By Our Special Correspondent

Hyderabad Oct. 9. The Tamil Nadu bandh today over the Cauvery river waters sharing had a positive impact on power supply in Andhra Pradesh.

Owing to the bandh, the drawal by Tamil Nadu from the integrated southern grid, of which Andhra Pradesh is a part, came down by 300 MW to 400 MW. The fall in the load pushed up the frequency of the system which has been hovering around 48 cycles in the past few days due to the difficult power situation, to 49 cycles. The availability of power for Andhra Pradesh was up, as also the voltage. Andhra Pradesh continued its supply to Karnataka to the extent of 60 MW routed through the Tandur-Sedam and Gooty-Bellary transmission lines, each 30 MW.

The AP Transco Director, M. Gopalachary, told The Hindu this evening that there was a slight improvement in the supply position in the State due to the Tamil Nadu bandh factor on the one hand and yesterday's rain in the State on the other. The output by the Neyveli and Simhadri stations remained constant at 950 MW (with 190 MW coming to the State) and 870 MW both of which work out to about 25 million units.

At the video-conference on the power situation for the fifth day here today, the feedback obtained by the Energy Minister, K. Subbarayudu, and the Transco CMD, Rachel Chatterjee, was that the experimentation with new timings for agriculture pumpsets was a `grand success' with farmers even from an acutely drought- affected district like Cuddapah dashing off letters to the SE/CE concerned appreciating the Government gesture of `assured uninterrupted supply for nine hours'.

The Cuddapah, Guntur, Nalgonda and Chittor SEs/CEs reported rain in their districts but yet, there little or no change in the load relief. It was further reported that prompt supply was ensured to Durga navaratri functions all over the State, especially at Proddatur where the Transco Technical Director, M. V. Birinchi, rushed in view of the place's peculiar problems.

The Minister later told reporters that shortage continued at 10 million units with the total output being 139.9 million units against a requirement of 150 MU.

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