Team News Riveting
Raipur, March 9
Telangana government had failed to clear the huge dues against power purchased from Chhattisgarh; propelling the latter to curtail power supply to the neighbouring state.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the state governments of Chhattisgarh and Telangana on November 2014 for purchase of 1000 MW from the 2 x 500 MW Marwa Thermal Power Station (MTPS), owned by the Chhattisgarh State Power Generation Company Ltd (CSPGCL). The severe power shortage was one of the major challenges for the newly formed state of Telangana in 2014.
“The Telangana government was not clearing the dues of Rs 2000 crore that it owed to Chhattisgarh against power purchased,” Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel today said in the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly. The neigbouring state was only paying interest and not the principal, he added.
Since the dues are amassing, the state government had curtailed the quantity of power supplied to Telangana. “The state government is committed to honour the power purchase agreement and would enhance the production once it received the due amount from Telangana,” Baghel said. Presently, one unit of 500 MW was running in Marwa.
In the current fiscal till January 31, the state-owned power stations had generated 15609.15 million units of electricity.
