latest news | Telangana challenge Centre's order to clear the power dues to Andhra Pradesh

Telangana had said that Andhra Pradesh owned Rs 12,940 crore overall

After being told by the ministry to pay the dues to AP within 30days, TS says, it will challenge the order.

Hyderabad: The booster dose of sorts that TS consider it received from union ministry of power in the form of Aug 29 consider paying Rs 6,756.92 Crores as current supplies due to AP, as political matter into which TS says the ministry had no business to start into, might not fully go TS way, if AP plans to action for its due go the way it purposes to.

TS which has been conduct a verbal battle with the Centre for quite some time over what it says are Central plans to force it to install meters for all rural connections, declared urgently after orders that the BJP govt. was attacking TS because it was opposed to metering farm power supply connections.

Casually, the ministry had made it clear that the amount owed for current supplied by AP between June 2, 2014 and June 10, 2017 was 'not on duty'.

It may be recalled that the ministry had said that TS received current as per the AP Reorganization Act, 2014's provisions, among which is an arrangement that the "successor state that has a defect or electricity shall have the first right of refusal for the purchase of surplus current from the other successor state."

Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao conducted a high level meeting with energy minister G. Jagadish Reddy and D. Prabhakar Rao, TS Transco and Genco chairman and managing director, after reviewing the Union power ministry order directed them to challenge it in the court.

However, TS Govt. is claiming Rs 17,828 crore from AP power utilities. Under five components, the TS Govt. assessed RS 11,248 crore as principal amount and Rs 6,579 crore as interest at the rate of 10.50 per cent. Interestingly, by exempeting Rs 4,887 crore to be paid to AP Genco, TS Govt. is claiming Rs 12,940 crores from Andhra Pradesh.

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