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The ZP general body meeting was held under the chair of ZP chairperson Dava Vasantha here on Wednesday. While explaining about the action plan of the electricity department, Transco SE Satyanarayana said that the State government was supplying 24 hours quality power.

In a statement Varun Reddy said last year between January and May, there were 10,558 hours of outages, while this year the outages came down to 7262 hours. "We have been able to reduce the time period of outages by 3,296 hours, an decrease of 31. 22 percent,"he said.

The government added about 8.17 lakh new agriculture connections after the formation of Telangana.

The rooftop solar adoption has been very slow, especially in the residential sector in the State as the installation of solar power is still an expensive option for many.

In the remote Mankapur village in Bazarhathnoor mandal, villagers stood away from voting demanding a road to the village.

Another person K Mallesham (33) died as lighting struck on him at Kuknurpally in Siddipet district early on Tuesday morning.

Power supply disruptions were also reported from across the State as trees and electric poles were uprooted by the winds. The climate changed suddenly after noon at several places and overcast conditions were witnessed.

There was no power supply in many parts for over 24-hours. The district witnessed wide-spread power disruption following heavy winds and unseasonal rains on Sunday late evening hours.

A rainfall of 54.8 mm was recorded in Chunchupally mandal. In Khammam district Singareni, Kamepalle, Kusumanchi, Khammam Urban and Rural mandals also witnessed moderate and light rainfall.

Chandrashekhar Rao's assertive stance during his recent visit to Nalgonda, Suryapet and Jangaon districts caused a stir within the ruling party, prompting heated exchanges over responsibility for the crisis.

The power companies surpassed the previous record of 297.89 million units of power supplied on March 14 last year.

 According to reports, there was no power supply due to some technical problem in the village on Tuesday and Mahender, who worked as an assistant lineman, was asked to check the lines.

K Varun Reddy, the Chairman and Managing Director of the Northern Power Distribution Company Limited (NPDCL), has directed officials to implement measures ensuring both quality and uninterrupted power supply to consumers.

Accusing the Congress of taking Telangana back to the days of power shortage when they were in power 10 years ago, Rao said the Congress government was now preparing a new power policy just to bring back the old days.

The past government had raised loans but the Congress government made several promises, which were practically not viable, BJP MLA Payal Shankar said.

Addressing Praja Ashirvada Sabhas, CM KCR fired salvos at TPCC president A Revanth Reddy for carelessly stating that three hours of power was sufficient for cultivation and suggesting to install 10HP motors

She advised Kishan Reddy to stop spreading lies and not to credit the Centre for the State government's achievement.

Rahul Gandhi’s claims just proved how deep the internal dissonance was, even while uttering lies. 

The TS Northern Power Distribution Company of Telangana Limited (TSNPDCL) convened a review meeting at Vidyut Bhawan here on Thursday.

TS Planning Board Vice-Chairman said that the supply of current to various sectors is being done at a record level in the state