VIJAYAWADA: Taking stock of the supply of free power to the farm sector in the State on Monday, Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy directed officials to provide 9-hour free power to farmers in daytime only. He wanted them to promote awareness about the benefits of meters to motor pumps in agriculture fields and that of Direct Benefit Transfer of the free power subsidy in a big way.
The Chief Minister stressed the need for giving wide publicity to the initiative that a burden of not a single rupee will be put on farmers with the installation of smart meters to motors, which will provide data pertaining to consumption and required load of feeders, so the power distribution can be improved further. He said the data pertaining to consumption of electricity could be logged every 15 minutes with the help of a meter and it will help ensure hassle-free supply of nine hours of free power to the farm sector. The government will directly credit the money into the farmers’ bank accounts for the power consumed by them and they will pay the bills to Discoms.
