Good News For Telangana Students: Government To Supply Free Power To State Run Educational Institutions

Hyderabad: Telangana government on Thursday determined to give free electricity to government-run educational institutions to impart quality education.  The scheme will come into effect without delay, says a Government Order issued hours after Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka announced this effect at a function to mark Teachers’ Day.

Vikramarka, who holds finance and energy portfolios, said the people’s government will provide free power to 27,862 educational institutions across the state. He said the federal government would reimburse the expenditure to be incurred by the electricity department for implementation of the scheme.

The modalities of the scheme have been outlined all of the way at some stage in the GO. The pliability distribution companies will create an online based portal with logins given to respective departments of all government educational institutions.

The secretaries of the concerned departments will finalise the list of institutions to be covered below the scheme and encompass the same on the online portal. Monthly billing be done for every institution and will be displayed all of the way at some stage in the department’s login. A challenging copy of the bill may be given to the respective institution guilty, showing consumption in units and billed value.

The portal may also enable the generation of reports referring to the consumption, bill amount, historical consumption, billing, payments and balance etc., institution-wise, mandal-wise and district-wise and will be reachable to all of the departments. The portal may be integrated with the Finance Department to enable the departments to pay the bills to TG DISCOMS using the budget provision.