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• September 10, 2012
• By DC Correspondent
• Ongole

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All village panchayats of Prakasam district will face darkness soon due to non-payment of electricity bills. Transco has issued notices to panchayats asking them to pay electricity bills pending from 2009 or face removal of electricity connections.

All village panchayats of Prakasam district will face darkness soon due to non-payment of electricity bills. Transco has issued notices to panchayats asking them to pay electricity bills pending from 2009 or face removal of electricity connections.
The Southern Power Distribution Corporation Limited has started action to collect pending bills and issued notices to 1,057 village panchayats, asking them to pay pending bills. These panchayats have to pay nearly Rs.80 lakh per month for the use of electricity for street lights, water supply and others. Transco is also planning to collect surcharge on these pending bills which will increase the financial burdens on these local bodies.
According to records, these panchayats have to pay Rs.29,74,71,011, pending from 2009, and Rs.9.02 crore surcharge is applicable on these bills. There are no elected bodies for village panchayats, hence villagers worry about Transco cutting power connections.
Founder president of Sta-te Sarpanches Association G. Veerabhadrachari said that Transco should collect bills from state government, but were pressurising local bodies instead. He said that panchayats were burdened with the absence of basic amenities due to lack of funds and demanded that electricity supply be continued. Admitting payment of one month electricity bills by village panchayats, Transco senior accountant P. Ramdas said that the department had taken the issue to the notice of district higher officials and were awaiting a response. He clarified that Transco was going to stop power supply to panchayat offices first and later, cut supply to street lights and water connections.

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Markapuram slate industry troubled by power cuts

 :                                 Markapuram slate industry troubled by power cuts

DC CORRESPONDENT

ONGOLE, APRIL 22

The slate industry at Markapuram was troubling with ongoing power cuts. The slump in the slate industry had led to nearly 20000 workers suffering. The Markapuram was famous for slates and it fulfills 80 percent slate and slate pencils demands of our country. There are 150 slate units but half of them are on the edge of closure with power cuts and the recent electricity tariff hike.

As many as 20000 people from Vemulakota, Kottalapalli, Vemulapeta, Jammanapalli, Kolabhimunipadu, Kottapalli, Tippayapalem, Nikarampalli, Ammavaripalli, Sivarampuram, Kondepalli, Rayavaram, Yachavaram, Moddulapalli, Ganugapenta, Darimadugu, Bodapadu, and Idupudu were working in the slate industries but many are now going to agriculture works like plucking chilli and national rural employment guarantee scheme works. Some migrated to Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Guntur, Nellore and other areas and are working in the construction field.  

Some workers of Yachavaram said that industries will get orders from December to May from educational institutions but entry of high tech methods like power point presentation, computers and erasable plastic notes has badly affected those orders due to adoption of computer technology by educational institutions. A leader of design slate units union, K. Nageswara Rao that their business mainly depends on export orders due to use of design slates by foreign countries hence government should supply electricity without power cuts, he demanded rollback of increased power tariffs for slate industries.

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