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According to NPDCL Chairman and Managing Director Karnati Varun Reddy, the company was planning to convert about 20 substations into unmanned operations by September 30 in Hanamkonda and Warangal Circles.

'Polam Bata' programme was organised to address issues related to electricity at Lakshmipuram village of Mudigonda Mandal under the Madhira Constituency of the Khammam district.

Raghu received a call from fraudsters posing as employees from TGNPDCL for verifying his power bill.

The Deputy Chief Minister said power utilities should be ready to attend to all emergencies during the rainy season and restore power supply as soon as possible.

According to NPDCL Chairman and Managing Director Karnati Varun Reddy, the asset mapping would facilitate easy pole-wise patrolling and allow for effective maintenance tracking.

The officials said the QR code bills would be introduced in all the districts under the NPDCL jurisdiction in a phased manner in the coming days.

According to sources, the projects would be implemented in three locations falling under the TGNPDCL and the TGSPDCL.

As the occurrence of local faults increases during rainfall, posing a risk of accidents, he instructed electrical workers involved in distribution to exercise caution and follow specific precautions to prevent accidents.

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.