Denizens of people on Monday heaved a sigh of relief with authorities deciding to reduce the power cut period from three hours to one hour per day.
Andhra Pradesh Power Transmission Corporation started to implement the decision from Monday itself and the people reeling under sweltering heat were in for a pleasant surprise on Monday evening when there was no power cut.
Apart from the major cities, Transco has also provided relief to the consumers all over the State. Now, the district headquarters will have only two hour power cut instead of four hours, municipalities will have four hours instead of six hours and it will be six hours instead of eight hours in the block headquarters.
The AP Government has the policy of supplying free hour to almost 3 million agriculture pump sets for 7 hours everyday and observers say that this has become the biggest burden on the power supply system. PNS