The Telangana Government is seeking to step up efforts to make arrangement for procurement of additional power from various sources, particularly the power surplus State of Chhattisgarh.

The State Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is likely to interact with his Chhattisgarh counterpart Raman Singh in couple of days on making arrangements for additional power and in setting up of a dedicated line to evacuate power.

Telangana had earlier expressed its plans to procure about 2000 mw from Chhattisgarh and it would make necessary arrangements for evacuation.

Meanwhile, the Government has reduced the two-day power holiday per week on the industrial consumers to one day a week.

The move comes in the backdrop of fall in demand from the agriculture sector following dip in temperatures due to widespread rains and also the kharif season nearing completion.

In the midst of a demand-supply mismatch leading to huge power cuts, this comes in as a good news for the industrial power consumers who are faced with hard times due to inadequate power supply to run their units leading to production loss. The small and medium enterprises are amongst the worst hit.

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