Centre planning to fix prepaid meters to all consumers by December 2025, says Minister
The Hindu
TRS wants BJP leaders to speak on reforms being pushed through backdoor
Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has strongly hit back at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on power reforms stating that it was on April 27 last year the Centre had sent the power policy to the State government in which it was clearly stated that prepaid energy (smart) meters had to be fixed all categories of consumers in a phased manner.
Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, Minister for Energy G. Jagadish Reddy along with MP B. Lingaiah Yadaiah and legisaltors G. Kishore Kumar, M.S. Prabhakar and K. Damodar Reddy said while a debate was going on power reforms across Telangana for the last 3-4 days, the BJP leaders, including Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy, were speaking on other issues instead of giving clarity on reforms.
He explained that through a gazette notification issued on August 17 last year, by the Ministry of Power (Centre) had mandated installation of smart prepaid energy meters to all categories of consumers, feeders and distribution transformers by December 2025. The Centre was trying to push reforms through the backdoor and that was the reason why it was hesitating to introduce the Electricity (Amendment) Bill.
A group of 13 men from Dakshin Datta Para village in Nadia district, West Bengal, busy transplanting paddy has been catching the eye of many in Mayildathurai district in recent days. A video clip of the Bengali migrant agricultural workers Singing Hindi and Bengali songs while planting paddy at Nallathukudi village here has gone viral.
Leaders and legislators hailing from Ballari, which is part of the Kalyana Karnataka region, seem to be a source of much political upheaval in Karnataka, going by recent history. This has been the case since the time illegal mining hit national and international headlines in the 2000s and the place gained reputation as “Republic of Ballari”.
The former BJP MLA of Udupi K. Raghupathi Bhat claimed on Saturday that he contesting the Legislative Council elections from South West Graduates’ Constituency as rebel candidate made the saffron party field its party leader C. T. Ravi in the biennial elections to the Legislative Council from the Legislative Assembly.