{"id":294711,"date":"2019-10-01T12:33:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T07:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=294711"},"modified":"2019-10-01T12:33:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T07:03:09","slug":"andhra-pradesh-energy-minister-balineni-srinivasa-reddy-slams-chandrababu-naidu-form-mismanagement-in-power-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/andhra-pradesh-energy-minister-balineni-srinivasa-reddy-slams-chandrababu-naidu-form-mismanagement-in-power-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Andhra Pradesh Energy Minister Balineni Srinivasa Reddy slams Chandrababu Naidu form mismanagement in power sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VIJAYAWADA: Days after former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu alleged that the decisions of the YSRC government with respect to renewable power purchase agreements were \u2018damaging\u2019 the State\u2019s brand, Energy Minister Balineni Srinivasa Reddy shot back claiming that the TDP chief\u2019s governance led to Discoms becoming debt-ridden. He alleged that Naidu left behind liabilities worthRs 20,000 crore for the power utilities, and added that the Jagan Mohan Reddy government was working towards easing the burden.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Sunday, the minister alleged that the previous government\u2019s corrupt practices pushed the power utlities into a debt trap. \u201cAfter Jagan took over as CM, the State has been focusing on bringing in transparency and every decision of ours reflects that vision. We are clearing the dues one at a time, besides working to bring down the power purchase costs. So far, for NTPC alone, we have cleared dues worthRs 3,414 crore, and anotherRs 1,200 crore was paid to other firms,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIJAYAWADA: Days after former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu alleged that the decisions of the YSRC government with respect to renewable power purchase agreements were \u2018damaging\u2019 the State\u2019s brand, Energy Minister Balineni Srinivasa Reddy shot back claiming that the TDP chief\u2019s governance led to Discoms becoming debt-ridden. He alleged that Naidu left behind liabilities worthRs 20,000 crore for the power utilities, and added that the Jagan Mohan Reddy government was working towards easing the burden. In a statement on Sunday, the minister alleged that the previous government\u2019s corrupt practices pushed the power utlities into a debt trap. \u201cAfter Jagan took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}