Govt. plans to privatise power utilities: BRS

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has alleged that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy is planning to privatise the power utilities in the State, including Singareni Collieries, which are playing a key role in the growth of State’s economy, to make easy money by handing over their share to ‘friendly’ corporate companies.

Speaking to newspersons here on Saturday, former Energy Minister G. Jagadish Reddy claimed that the State was not in a position to provide even 12-hour power supply to domestic, commercial and industrial sectors when it was formed in 2014. Within four months of coming to power, the then TRS (BRS) Government had ensured 24x7 supply to the three sectors and to the agriculture sector from December 2017 by investing heavily in strengthening the transmission and distribution infrastructure.