Debt, rate hikes & shortages: TDP govt WhitePaper on Andhra power fiasco underlines pan-India blight
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
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Chandrababu Naidu Govt’s 'White Paper', the third in its series, reveals issues plaguing the Andhra Pradesh power sector and attributes 'the legacy losses' mainly to his predecessor Jagan Mohan Reddy’s 'inefficient governance'. Watch ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta explain findings of the paper, status of Andhra Pradesh's power sector and what lies ahead for the present TDP government in episode 1479 of Cut The Clutter
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00:32 TDP's White Paper on Andhra Pradesh Power sector
01:05 India's Power Sector Woes
05:22 Andhra's Reforms
07:29 Unbundling Electricity Boards
11:06 TDP Government Achievements
14:48 Deterioration Under Jagan Govt
21:01 Project Delays and Costs
28:02 Conclusion
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Where can we download or see the whitepaper which is being discussed here?
Only three actions can save this country..
1. Vote wisely
2. UPSC reforms to address high corruption
3. Bring accountability
Actually, scratch all that and have a judicial system that dispenses justice in less than a year.
When you effectively don't have a legal system - the number of people willing to fight out injustice and govt apathy is negligible. If you know I'll get justice in about a year or so, there's so much more incentive for people to stand up for themselves
@@mickeykedia An independent Indian Judicial Service is required .. with salaries ring fenced en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_India_Judicial_Service
What about corrupt Judiciary
Parties are immensely corrupt from left to right every single one
How is it possible to change mind of billion people( we daily get news of public property damaged no matter what the reason is)
Legal system judges should be audited and close case in year
Sir why don't you invite power minister from Jagan government to come and explain these claims on your channel, hope they have also not copied BJP's motto of not giving interviews🤔
In short YSR family and people who believed in Free Lunch destroyed telugu people future
I don't think they're educated enough to understand concepts like free lunch
Intelligent people knows CBN is for development, fools follow fake news in సాక్షి & live in a fools paradise.
CBN came into power by these free schemes only.
@@nareshbabuvij So ysrcp is not literate enough to release their own white paper like cbn?
@@surajs5913 do you think.CBNs white paper is full of facts?????
If yes
1) tell me how the daipharm wall collapsed???
2) in CBNs white paper itself he mentioned that 2014-19 he spent 10000 + crores 2019- 24 govt spent 8000+ crores
Then how did he claim 72% completed in his resume?? And 2 % only completed in jagan time???
Criticism is an easy job when people don't know the stuff they will criticise others.
In every government paper works are done by bureaucrats only not CBN or Lokesh or jagan or pawan
Jagan ruined AP… Destroyed its economy…. Minted money by dubious means in the last 5 years…
how he destroyed why are you following the system of jagan mohan reddy
@@vijaya14081976Read White Papers Released by AP government recently those are facts not the ones published in tissue paper సాక్షి.
Last 5yrs 😂😂😂 He did scams When his father was CM what do you expect
@@vijaya14081976jagan destroye econmy by giving simpley freebies with no industrial development and jobs
@@Mogambozatanaaaaaa
Hope Modi government passes the power reforms this time. It’s imperative for our power t&d, discom losses to come down which currently stand at above 5 lac crores
No chance with reduced majority and trouble in many state govt, their will be no push for any so called reform which have political repercussion one which we are already swing in maharashtra all electricity bill of farmers waived off
Forget it, focus will on Pasmanda,Narishakthi.
theft and dacoity
Thanks for talking on this Shekar ji
It'll be welcoming if you increase your frequency of videos talking about south India
Thank you, Sudha ji. We absolutely plan to do that. Do keep watching...best wishes, Shekhar
This is Tughlaq rule that happened for past 5 years in our state
Tughlaq will feel less Tughlaq if he sees this
The thuglaq rule started just now. Free sand costing more than previous government where half of the amount going to govt but now all going to TDP leaders. Wait bit more time. Truth will prevail.
@@mktalluri if I'm not wrong you are reddy🙃
@@mktalluri arey babu 2019-24 lorry sand cost 50000 now 4500- 9000 depending on area, sand is available free go and fetch whereever it's possible for you already government clearly stated that thing
@@nehak852 not reddy in particular but definitely Paytm batch only they know nothing except spreading lies and because of these people only jagan got cricket team
It's look like worst governance model in the country
Jagan canceled cheaper power agreement claiming that its corruptions and bought power at higher price.😂
Even KCR did the same thing
Idiots who voted for him are the problem
Both are brothers unparalleled in corruption
@it5617
They are partners in crime.
Even this government CBN is full of Corruption for last 14 years with graphics
Please do an episode on AP liquor scam iP 5 years. Biggestbscam india has ever seen.
Lol that might be more longer than this episode z finally national media talking about Jagan 5 yr mess
It’ll be mind blowing
Agreed! The Power Scam figures are mere peanuts compared to the Liquor Scam in AP. Shekhar just teased that by mentioning APSBCL Bonds. AP State Beverages Corporation was the umbrella under which the AP Liquor Scam blossomed in the Jagan Reddy Administration.
Sg didn't included one of the most serious problem Indian economy faces is cross subsidization, to recover money used to waive farmer electricity bill or giving free unit fir domestic consumption extra amount is charged from industrial areas in that state, we are also seeing this now in lpg cylinder, where burden of free gas cylinder is passed on to cylinder used for commercial purpose, with this new era of competitive freebies we will see more of this with reduced majority even bjp will have to adapt to this freebie competition
True
well said, now after seeming the khatakhat success, we will see more of it, and in no time, we would be back to stone ages. Atal Govt introduced new pension schemes, and now we have started to roll back. May be we need some clensing like Pak and then truly understand what it means to be fiscally diciplined.
It's a race to the bottom.
People get the leaders the deserve.
If you vote for this nonsense, you get bad leaders.
Cheap liquor is the way in AP...no online payments ....the same cheap liquor is sold at very high prices.....Delhi is just tip of iceberg when compared to AP liquor scam.....this NDA coilation at least now brought ap into limelight
Sir, pls need an episode on Karnataka's current scams which are trending now.
No he won't he might be perceived as neutral but he isn't exactly neutral
@@naveensudarshan6649Republic TV is the most neutral tv news channel. I urge everyone to follow it
क्या वो अपने पैर पे कुल्हाड़ी मारेगा। हद होती है पूछने की। उसका एक program जो आता हैं न, headlines के साथ जो अपूर्व मांधानी host करती हैं न, उसमें सभी सवाल उठाएं फिर भी उसको discuss नहीं करेंगे। అడక్కు తిన్నాలన్న పెట్టేవాడు ఎవరో ఉండాలి., వీడు పెట్టడు
Jagan in coming to power cancelled all PPA done by previous tdp government which was granted by bjp government in association with japan if it was implemented we would get as low as 1.50rs per unit.
Bro Jagan tried to renegotiate the purchase cost to lower price
Your information is wrong
Chandra Naidu gov had agreements with Power companies for 6 to 9 rs/unit, that’s why Jagan cancelled the agreement. Post the facts, Jagan gov had agreement with NTPC SEKi for 2.5 rs/unit, he did better for AP people
@@prav6988 He cancelled PPA of Japan company which were brought by modi in tie up Japan government and then government tdp government implemented the PPA and jagan got cancelled PPA coming into power in 2019, Narendra Modi also expressed anger against the cancellation of PPA as he fought hard to get PPA whereas none of the state governments cancelled PPA only jagan led YCP government cancelled PPA.. These are facts not bull shit statements..
@@ramp8374 No. Jagan Reddy tried to renegotiate so that he can pocket a tidy sum on account of new contract.
@@prav6988U Paytm dog.. how many times jagan increases power price do you know and bus ticket price
Free power is the biggest ‘revdi ‘ politicians offer during elections in Bharat !
How will electricity companies survive ?
Atleast the free power should be given as direct cash transfer instead of forcing companies to give a discount. That way debt is transparently shown on govt's budget sheet, not hidden as discom's debt.
Dr. YSR is the very first politician who gave Free power to farmers
Problem is Farmers don't pay any tax@@raviakunuri-ek4hl
@@raviakunuri-ek4hlYSR schemes addressed farmers plight and reduced their suicides. It also helped curb naxalism in backward districts which put the state in right path of development
This is what Congress and it's coalition is doing since independence... We rule and let people suffer. 😢
Jagan’s management was sooooo poor that the people of AP would have even voted for a scarecrow instead of him. CBN and PK really have their task cut out and may god bless them 🙏🏽
Shekar ji Thanks for covering About Andhra atleast some People will realise the Reality of Jagan and what he had done to the state and took in Competition with Bihar🙏🙏
After electricity now new offer is Khatakhat khatakhat 8500/- rupees. 😭
Please concentrate on south states too ,we hardly see them in videos
Dear Sanjay,
Thank you for suggestion, we'll let the editors know. We also thank you for the contribution you have made.
Successive state govts are destroying the future of people in Tamilnadu. TANGEDCO is a poster boy for this.
Shekhar ji he leveraged gpf amount of employees and made them to invest in ap beverage bonds in order to get loans as power sector is in lot of debts as liquor is getting more income generation he pledged their gpf amount. Jagan made all systems in Andhra in a vicious cycle 🙏🙏
Karnataka is headed in this direction as goverment is alleged to be diverting funds (even sc/st funds) to fulfill guarantees.
SC/ST is hurting State
If we keep 1/3 budget only on sc/st wellfare
Where is the money for infrastructure salaries pension other community schemes housing education agriculture power corporation panchayat etc etc should be maintained in 2/3 budget
Who can draw the straight line from this to khata-khat khata-khat? I am surprised that Shri Gupta did not.
Back to depressing Indian politics from the exciting world of international diplomacy
This is an outstanding program, explaining the situation of the power sector. As an active investor in power equipment companies and having profited from these investments, this presentation is an eye opener for me as the back end details are rarely discussed. Thanks
Superb episode ShekharJi
These are the Neo Tughlaqs of India.
3:43 Hello Shekhar ji, I really enjoy your videos and the in-depth analysis. As an enthusiast who loves diving into the details, I would really appreciate it if you could include links to the documents and sources mentioned in your videos in the description. It would help viewers like me to further explore and understand the topics discussed. Thank you for your great work
No one covering news like ThePrint these days. Kudos to you guys. Especially Cut the Clutter; can't live without it!
Thanks for making us understand about power sector with this white paper as a conduit...
Political cycles are inevitable. People who haven't got freebies in a long time bunch up together to elect leaders like this once a while. I am afraid to say that Congress will be there in power in next 10 years at the center and it will create the same mess. Our development agenda will unfortunately be pushed decades behind.
More coverage and analysis of the state governments across India is welcome and necessary. They need to held to account just like the centre.
Thing is SG will make all the right noises when its matter the least and he knows it very well when to have these kinds of episodes.
He'll never speak about these stupid policies and debunk them whenever they're launched(or in the process). At that time he'll trumpet the democracy phenomenon and common people/farmers winning over autocratic(inclined) govt.
And to maintain the " perception" of being neutral he'll come around with these episodes.
This is not surprising, Its pattern of behaviour by the successive governments in AP to accuse the opposition of corruption and take just like Jagan did in the last term against CBN and he went to jail as well. I am not surprised.
What was the finance minister doing when state government is taking loans beyond the norms why is the finance minister not sacked yet for her over sight or is she hand in glove with the then AP state government for kick backs
The Union has already capped the amount of debt a state can take under the Fiscal Responsibility and Budgetary Management (FRBM) Act. Recently, Kerala went to the Supreme Court against this limit because it couldn't pay employee salaries and wanted to take on more debt, which the Center refused since Kerala had already exceeded its limit for the current fiscal year. The Center argued in the Supreme Court that Kerala's financial woes were due to its mismanagement and reckless spending, an assessment even the Court agreed with. The Center also mentioned that allowing Kerala's request would set a precedent for other states. However, after the Supreme Court requested consideration of Kerala's case as special, the Center agreed to let Kerala borrow an additional ₹23,200 crore. However, this amount will be deducted from Kerala's share of the divisible pool in future fiscal years.
@@pkmkb7412 And those limits have been relaxed for the favourite cm Mr Jagan reddy multiple times not a single warning or stoppage of more loans
@@SY_77Because People voted for freebies and any move against it will be Called Fascism and interference on state right by you people 😂😂.. The people willl realise only if they suffer.. That's why
@@SY_77No, they didn't. It would lead to partiality. You can check the written reply from the Minister of State (Finance) in the Rajya Sabha. Additionally, the central government stated in the Supreme Court that many states have repeatedly requested permission to borrow more debt, but none of these demands have been accepted.
@@SY_77this TDP had double schemes will be washing machine to central government?
Not one sector every sector of andhra pradesh got fucked up like hell, becoz of one person ego and hatered towards CBN.
Very interesting topic! Thank you
Ideally, there should be a uniform way of evaluating the performance of every state Government over a five year period e.g. power sector penetration, state deficit changes, GSDP per capita etc etc
And this should be available easily to the public in an easy to read format so that politicians feel some accountability when starting their terms
19:19 It's because of All the infrastructure control systems etc at the Telangana or somewhere in the Telangana State It's all transported, converted, and upgraded to Andhra Pradesh. Vijayawada Now, at the same time, they have installed and upgraded the infrastructure and upgraded all the substations and their transmission lines So it could be their charges also shown in the operations cost But in this particular. the power cuts have been shortened And response time of the Service people I would say it's okay But I want to say that they started unit charge. They have doubled And at the same time, they asked for the back pay which a year or three years ago, we may have been used At that time they got transmission losses or generation costs were high, so they are now charging at the current bill And sometimes they suddenly add falana,dimka no charges Without notifying the customer
Please privitise entire power sector.
The entire electricity chain should stop relying on subsidies to stay afloat. Doing so encourages them to become more efficient and competitive, which is better for everyone in the long run. When these companies are profitable, they can reinvest their earnings into upgrading their infrastructure and improving service reliability. Plus, they can channel profits into renewable energy projects like wind, solar, and hydro power, helping to create a cleaner, more sustainable future for us all.
Sir, I would not think that you missed a very very important data point , that may look unnecessary but very germane.
That data point is that AP has divided into telangana and residual AP, and the power assets are disproportionately went to AP. Any comparison of data before 2014 and after, has to factor in this. The data is not seamless. Thanks
You are absolutely correct. That's why majority of the comparison done in the later part of the video is between 2018-19 and 2022-23 (post-bifurcation).. to give a better and accurate picture of the situation.
Regardless of any government. First few months will be a political game with the name of white papers. Telangana also did the same.
It’s nice seeing your analysis sir…!
Really loving the episodes lately. So happy that the show has gone back to analysis of tangible issues, rather than deciphering political motives which might not eve play out.
It's high time that this great visionary leader concentrate on politics rather than focusing on development only. Because development only never keeps him in power , particularly in a castist society like Andhra.
Gujarat has no power problems and GEB has been profitable and state is power surplus. These reforms have been working for more than 20 years. But Modi hate of SG prevents him from pointing this out.
None of the issues are not solvable. Gujarat has it solved for more than 20 years.
Bottom line is that power is not free - people have to pay for it
Really happy to see plight of Andhra Pradesh finally being highlighted, once a major flourishing state, post bifurcation has been languishing for ten years.
Expecting you to see it on both sides and don't always belive state Govt. White papers blindly...
Because of political biasness they will have..
Would you believe if you see the power bills of common man for the past 5 years?
Nice
T and D losses in the west is 5-6%.. Given hotter average temperatures in AP, ‘natural’ T&D losses will be higher than 5-6.. So 9.5% is not too bad..
probably 2-3% of theft/leakage is still happening..
Good job AP
WERE You able to get only this insight? Good job AP 😂😂
Where can I find this white paper
Even rich people are stealing power but gov is doing nothing.. need tough sentence
Here perpetrators are not only jagan, even bureaucrats are also involved in this, every official was like 'this is the time to take whatever we want'.
Did not notice the Vijaywada cut in at all!!!
This is the reality of Revdi politics. Khata khat
And the fact that nor the central government nor courts tried to rectify these situations by taking strong actions on the bad governance in AP .... During 2019-2024 is sad reality of our country. Democracy doesn't just mean vote once in 5 years and that elected government is free to do whatever they want.
There has to be checks and proceedures that had to be followed such that public interest and fiscal health of the governments is maintained and protected.
People were protesting, press freedom was lost, government was mis handling funds without any economic discipline and the burden has to be ultimately paid by the tax payers, common people as well as the future generations. THIS IS WRONG. Something, some kind of neutral authority enforcing regulation based on certain qualitative parameters is necessary to keep all these governments in check... Whether it's state government or central government.
It's pathetic to see how a democratic country like India is even allowing such a gross mishandling of power and resources by incompetent, malicious and foolish individuals like Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy.
At least in the past, never there was a governance so badly managed such as the YSRCP government. It's very sad. Every party no matter Left, Right or centre have always managed things at a decent level (although subpar), and all of the governments of different parties were performing more or less similar. But this is something no one has ever seen.
And all these damages incurred in power sector in AP by YSRCP government is done in just last 5 years alone.... Which is more than double to the nrpet cumulative losses incurred by the state in it's entire history..!!
How come, a the power sector in AP which was running on energy surplus in terms of electricity in 2018 came to such a pathetic state of buying power at significantly high prices and yet not able to even operate without borrowing loans or even having unpaid bills/arrears from the state government itself !!!
This is lowest of the low!!
Do you think it’s in the cards for TDM to do anything to correct this?
Now there is too much power cuts from past 5 days in APeven we didn't feel much in summer 😢
Hi sir it will be nice if you visit Andra Capital Amaravathi and also cover more episodes on Andra pradesh
Jagan destroyed Entire Eco System in Andhra. He was the worst CM ever in India
Good judgement
T&D losses primary refers to natural losses due to resistance in lines, less than 100% efficiency of transformers etc... which can be improved by better technology and maintenance. if you want to include theft and dacoity you can but pure transmission and distribution losses are usually very significant.
Love the audio edits 😂
Thank you sekhar sir please do more about the freebie politics in south with no revenue generation
Namely we are now seeing kerala and Karnataka fighting at supreme court for funds from central government for their freebies
"Atleast the free power should be given as direct cash transfer instead of forcing companies to give a discount. That way debt is transparently shown on govt's budget sheet, not hidden as discom's debt."
The reason Discom dues got hiked up was because of CBN who made agreement with Developers by deviating rules like bypassing ERC and floating tender and making agreements at premium price when other states were getting at very lower price
This is what happens when we v elect thugs.
Basically, "the give and take of competitive electoral politics". also known as revdi, can fuss up the financial future of voters.
If you are discussing numbers in thousands of crores, pls consider sticking to say, 55 thousand crores rather than 55,233 crores for example. No further insights gained by giving the exact number…Same thing for dates, Month and Year of an event is good enough, not much use saying 15 June, 1976….
Nah that is a part of his style of journalism, you see giving more precision makes him feel more authentic
At the time of COVID, there might be electricity bill defaulters. Does it may a reason?
@ThePrintIndia Any government employees Funds can invest in any secured bonds. I am not sure which part you do not understand. 8.5 % yield is a very good deal. What’s the problem?
A subtle way of saying ..give me money
APTRANSCO actually increased its profit accumulation by about 100%. I wonder how difficult is it for such a "professional" team to read a simple balance sheet. Anything in brackets indicates a minus or a loss. Anything without brackets is positive or profit. So transco didn't really lose money. Because they have very little to do with energy sales. You don't need to be an expert to understand this.
Sekhar Gupta I wonder you joined hands with yellow media 🤔 wearing yellow shirt too😂
Mumbai city electric supply is under municipal corporation which was largely under Shiv Sena control. Also Mumbai citizens pay on time keeping the power business sustainable and expandable . The quality of power in Mumbai is very stable with minimal fluctuations for decades which was not observed in Delhi till last 10-13 years
points to take:
1. politics and economics don't go well together.
2. when you vote for freebies, you will end up paying several folds more, (for voters, this aspect is very difficult to understand).
Sir I request you to take up an episode to give the ruining government to change their bugal ...... their speech even after the election result contain Modi ji ne sab kutch Kiya. I wanted them to change their speeches to hum ne ye Kiya and hum ne ek saath aur aap ke sahayog se india ko iss mukam per pohochaya.
How did Covid 19 affect these numbers and how does it relate to numbers across other states ? That would have provided a better measure of performance. Sadly there is no analysis just explanation of the paper, which I guess folks who are interested could have read themselves.
its the AAP that is responsible.
Actually, there has to be a base rate established in India.
It's not white paper, it's babu paper he hide some points by blaming Jagan.
Nice Video Shekhar Ji. Would suggest to make Videos in Hindi which might make your videos viral a lot and reach wider audience
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I seriously imagined that you were going to speak on the elections in U. K., France, Iran when you returned.
Shekhar gupta
Its very ironic to see Sekhar Gupta wearing Yellow
Also it amuses me when he utters word poowerr instead of power .
His english is amazin.
That is better than fawer 😂
Every district should have 1000 megawatts solar power plant built by private sector and make every district self sufficient in power protection.
CBN was utterly failed to provide quality power during his era in 1995 to 2004 n 2014 to 2019, he did not focused on power generation from renewable power generation or any other sources, irrigation projects were completely neglected during his tenure
Graphics ruling with false propaganda
Still waiting for a non corrupt entitled dynastic brat who can work in Indian politics.
According to most of the comments though, the problem is that their corrupt entitled dynastic brat wasn’t in charge the entire time
i’m always confused - states announce themselves revenue surplus like delhi, madhya pradesh. Then you have data like Andhra. is there an objective assessment which can point out how every state is doing economically?
Everyone know that old city people in Hyderabad not paying their bills, anyone able to
Do anything
Liquor scam also please, how he went from liquor ban promise to liquor manufacturing government.
Like 999 Powerstar.. 😅😅😅
Why is vijayawada prerecorded?
Good catch. Because I had mistakenly said Vizag and our correspondent Prasad alerted me. That’s wh6 we corrected. Thank you…and you are sharp! …Shekhar
Anything that is free is missed used and abused! Why free at all…nothing comes free. Govt needs to pull off all freebies and provide work for entire cross section of working population and help them work and pay for the services utilised ! We are only growing people to get lazy and drink away with these freebies! And one cannot giveaway money contributed by less than 10% of the people to the rest ! This is the crux of all financial problems in d country
Psycho Jagan made AP as baggers state, he wanted everyone must be depend on him with freebies. But people has given clear mandate to kill him politically which is fair enough for AP to survive as progressive state
AP power production as on 31st March 2024 is 29.11 GWatt, 7th largest producer. After Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, TN, Karnataka, UP. UP state 4 times bigger than AP is very close to AP in power production. Bigger states like West Bengal, MP, Bihar are far below AP in power production. AP started very large Solar power project at Gummidam thanda in Kurnool dist. Only state Rajasthan later started world's largest solar power in the desert area. I do not think high rates for electricity compared to many states. Only for political reasons it is unfair to make publicity on the wrong side project
Funny part in the CBN ppt,
Increase in tariff was added to discomm losses 😂😂
There should be a total ban on indescriminate, unfiltered free schemes. Let the govt determine pptential candidates based on tax filed or some such means and do a targeted approach. Like the technical approach of naidu's govt setting up a baseline before they start their work. Now we have something to go back n refer 5 years from now.🙌
This is what happens when people like Jagan reddy is voted to power
Sounds like SG agrees that power freebies is a bad idea.
KA suffers from it big way
The saga of lost funds and the quest to bring them back.