“Discipline should also come in the government departments said Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao. Many government departments are not paying their electricity bills on time. From now onwards, the Finance department will pay the bills of the departments concerned from the budgetary allocation of various departments. Install prepaid meters at all the government departments and power used for other needs by the government he said.
The government will bear the expenditure with regard to free power to the farmers and the Lift Irrigation schemes and projects. For this purpose, a special grant will be made in the Budget and electricity organisations will be paid their bills every month KCR assured.
The government will also stand guarantee to the electricity organisations to raise funds to strengthen their organisations,’’ KCR explained.
“The government is preparing an action plan for the works to be taken up in the villages and towns. In this 60-day long action campaign, power week will be observed. During the period, the rectification of the twisted poles, power lines, clearing of the power bills etc., will be taken up.
At the same time assess how much will be the cost of bills and quantum of power required for the streetlights,” the CM remarked.
