Palair gets six hours; 24-hour power stays on paper
Farmers protested in Nelakondapalli over alleged power cuts, while official records offer no feeder-level data to settle the dispute.
Farmers in Nelakondapalli have alleged short and interrupted agricultural power supply; feeder-level records were not publicly available in the material reviewed.
Farmers held a sit-in at Nelakondapalli mandal headquarters in Khammam on September 10, alleging that agricultural consumers in Palair were receiving only six to 10 hours of electricity a day, with frequent interruptions. The protest was in the constituency represented by Revenue Minister and Congress MLA Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy. [1][2]
The farmers also claimed that those just beyond Guvvalagudem, in Madhira constituency, were receiving 24-hour free power and demanded an explanation for the difference. Madhira is represented by Congress MLA and Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka. [1][2]
The Congress government’s own stated policy is 24-hour free power for farmers. The inconvenient detail is that the available official pages publish neither feeder-level supply records for Nelakondapalli nor data confirming the Madhira comparison. Khammam’s electricity page merely places Nelakondapalli under the Khammam Rural division. [3][4]
The farmers’ figures remain allegations, not independently verified measurements. The relevant authorities have not publicly placed a response or outage data on record in the material reviewed. For now, Palair has a promise of 24-hour power and a protest asking where the hours went.