{"id":8749,"date":"2024-06-14T03:47:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T03:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8749"},"modified":"2024-06-14T03:47:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T03:47:02","slug":"agri-power-demand-surges-62-in-telangana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/agri-power-demand-surges-62-in-telangana\/","title":{"rendered":"Agri power demand surges 62% in Telangana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power demand has gone up exponentially inTelanganaafter the TRS government began providing 24&#215;7 free power to the <a href=\"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/<a href=\"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/agriculture\">Agriculture<\/a>-notes-for-state-psc-exams&#8221;>Agriculture<\/a> sector. Over five lakh new agriculture connections have been added in the state since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Agriculture power demand has witnessed a steep 62% jump in the past few years, especially after the government began providing uninterrupted power supply to the agriculture sector.<\/p>\n<p>According to official records, there were 19 lakh agriculture connections at the time of formation of  in 2014. In the past seven years, 5.86 lakh new connections 3.65 lakh in Telangana State Southern Power Distribution Company Limited (TSSPDCL) and 2.49 lakh in Telangana Northern Power Distribution Company Limited (TSNPDCL)  were added. The twin power distribution companies now have over 12 lakh agriculture connections each in their jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>The area nder cultivation has increased from 17.62 lakh acres in 2017-2018 to 35.27 lakh acres in 2020-2021, a <a href=\"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/growth\">Growth<\/a> rate of 100%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power demand has gone up exponentially inTelanganaafter the TRS government began providing 24&#215;7 free power to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1097],"tags":[787],"class_list":["post-8749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telangana","tag-12-06-21"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v23.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Agri power demand surges 62% in Telangana - 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