Eastern Power Distribution Company of Andhra Pradesh Limited (APEPDCL) has developed a customised software, which displays details of feeder-wise agricultural supply position on its website for ensuring power supply to the agri sector.

The customised software is part of the five-point programme to strictly ensure seven-hour power supply to the farming community without any deviation to save the standing crops during the kharif season as the agricultural operations are in full swing, said Dinesh Kumar, principal secretary, state energy department.

New Delhi States that have rejected developers’ proposals for hike in electricity tariff to reflect the actual increase in imported fuel cost for existing projects are unlikely to get cheaper power elsewhere. This is the inference one makes from the offers received by an Andhra Pradesh utility in response to its tender for 2,000 mw power supply.

Central Power Distribution Company of Andhra Pradesh and Andhra state utility, had recently floated tender for procurement of 2,000 mw power for three years. In response to the tender, bidders have quoted Rs.4.29-6.24 a unit price for supplying power.

Minister for Tourism Vatti Vasanth Kumar has said public-private partnership mode is the answer to developing infrastructure and ensuring connectivity across the State and country.

“Only this way, we can have facilities in place to help people access places,” he told the gathering after declaring the 10th Travel & Tourism Fair open here on Friday. While the Andhra Pradesh government had taken strides aimed at encouraging inbound tourism, much more needed to be done to have people-friendly facilities and developing more destinations.

Following the footsteps of GHMC, the Secunderabad Cantonment Board has decided to purchase dumper-placers or vehicles that have machinery mounted to lift garbage bins. The Cantonment Board meeting on Thursday decided to purchase five dumper-placer vehicles and 200 bins.

Meanwhile, the GHMC has come under sharp criticism from various quarters as its dumper-placers can lift only the bins and nothing is done about the garbage spilled from the bins and waste thrown at open dumping points. Despite the GHMC hiring labourers, they have not been able to reach all the open garbage dumping points in the city.

Things are not going right for Reliance Power's (R-Power) Krishnapatnam project.

The L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad Ltd has finalised a unique “cantilever elevated design” for Metro Rail stations coming up in the city.

In all, there will be 66 stations at 63 locations. Except for the three joint stations of Ameerpet (corridors I & III), Parade Grounds (corridors II & III) and MGBS (corridors I & II), all the other stations will be “cantilever stations” resting on only pillars in the middle with no side pillars. “This cantilever elevated station design is planned for the first time in India and is a rare engineering feat by L&T structural engineers,” said N.V.S. Reddy, managing director, Hyde-rabad Metro Rail.

Three years after 16 people died from drinking contaminated water, the government has not relocated the hazardous industries from Bholakpur in Musheerabad.

The AP State Human Rights Commission had directed the authorities to shift the industrial units, particularly those dealing in the animal skin business, plastic and scrap outside city limits after the May 2009 tragedy and representations were made, pointing to the pollution-causing units. Though a high-level committee, comprising district collectors of Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy, GHMC and HMDA commissioners,

Notices issued to stop all industrial activities with effect from July 23 to complete ongoing batches

The Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board has ordered closure of 12 manufacturing units of different pharma companies, including Aurobindo Pharma, around the city for allegedly violating pollution norms. According to a Board's release, the notices have been issued to the facilities to stop all industrial activities with effect from July 23 to complete the on-going batches.

A committee of corporators has recommended that the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation levy hefty penalties on industries that are releasing their sewage into the storm water drain network of

Andhra Pradesh is not likely to get any water for its projects based on the Krishna river or its basin unless and until Maharashtra and Karnataka receive a quantity of 203.8 tmcft to fill theirs own projects first to combat semi-drought conditions reportedly prevailing there also.

Sources said Karnataka and Maharashtra Governments too are hard- pressed to store as much as water as possible in their projects for irrigation and drinking water supply as several districts are suffering from rainfall deficit. Alamatti and Narayanpur dams in Karnataka have 34.65 tmcft of water now but all of it lies below dead storage level.