Debt, rate hikes & shortages: TDP govt WhitePaper on Andhra power fiasco underlines pan-India blight 

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Only three actions can save this country.. 1. Vote wisely 2. UPSC reforms to address high corruption 3. Bring accountability

In short YSR family and people who believed in Free Lunch destroyed telugu people future

It's look like worst governance model in the country

Thanks for talking on this Shekar ji It'll be welcoming if you increase your frequency of videos talking about south India

Jagan ruined AP… Destroyed its economy…. Minted money by dubious means in the last 5 years…

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

This is Tughlaq rule that happened for past 5 years in our state

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

Please do an episode on AP liquor scam iP 5 years. Biggestbscam india has ever seen.

Jagan canceled cheaper power agreement claiming that its corruptions and bought power at higher price.😂

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

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.

This is what Congress and it's coalition is doing since independence... We rule and let people suffer. 😢

Sir, pls need an episode on Karnataka's current scams which are trending now.

Free power is the biggest ‘revdi ‘ politicians offer during elections in Bharat ! How will electricity companies survive ?

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🙏🙏

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 🙏🏽

After electricity now new offer is Khatakhat khatakhat 8500/- rupees. 😭

Successive state govts are destroying the future of people in Tamilnadu. TANGEDCO is a poster boy for this.

Please concentrate on south states too ,we hardly see them in videos

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.

Who can draw the straight line from this to khata-khat khata-khat? I am surprised that Shri Gupta did not.

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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.

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.

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!

Not one sector every sector of andhra pradesh got fucked up like hell, becoz of one person ego and hatered towards CBN.

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.

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.

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

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

Please privitise entire power sector.

Regardless of any government. First few months will be a political game with the name of white papers. Telangana also did the same.

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

More coverage and analysis of the state governments across India is welcome and necessary. They need to held to account just like the centre.

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..

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

Thanks for making us understand about power sector with this white paper as a conduit...

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.

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

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

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.

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'.

Even rich people are stealing power but gov is doing nothing.. need tough sentence

This is the reality of Revdi politics. Khata khat

This is what happens when we v elect thugs.

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!!

Did not notice the Vijaywada cut in at all!!!

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.

Really happy to see plight of Andhra Pradesh finally being highlighted, once a major flourishing state, post bifurcation has been languishing for ten years.

It's not white paper, it's babu paper he hide some points by blaming Jagan.

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

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

its the AAP that is responsible. Actually, there has to be a base rate established in India.

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.

Now there is too much power cuts from past 5 days in APeven we didn't feel much in summer 😢

Jagan destroyed Entire Eco System in Andhra. He was the worst CM ever in India

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

Where can I find this white paper

It’s nice seeing your analysis sir…!

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

Hi sir it will be nice if you visit Andra Capital Amaravathi and also cover more episodes on Andra pradesh

Everyone know that old city people in Hyderabad not paying their bills, anyone able to Do anything

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

Who validate the Values mentioned in the white paper , do TDP have and substantial data to justify what they said in it, I don’t think they’ve it.

Good judgement

Nice Video Shekhar Ji. Would suggest to make Videos in Hindi which might make your videos viral a lot and reach wider audience

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

Same is the story in Karnataka where the incumbent govt is 100 times more inefficient and probably corrupt too. My electricity bill inflation is 60% after May 2023 and face much more power cuts now. And Rahul Gandhi wants to replcate this damaging economic policy in entire India. Caste and freebies are two things on which Congress has marginally improved their performance and it is a shame on Congress which has gifted India with liberalisation and reforms of 1991.of course now Congress is filled with communists and has destroyed its legacy.

"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."

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….

These neta’s will not privatise Discomms as it’s their milking cows In India Shelia Dixit Delhi model can be replicated everywhere but these short sighted socialist minded neta’s will not do that Naveen Patnaik is exception ( that’s to advise by Arindam Bagchi ) that he privatised all state discomms , the benefits of that will be reaped by people in coming 10 years when Orrissa will become major industrial / commercial hub . It will be far ahead of all states in coming years just because of quality electricity infrastructure People do not understand that quality privatisation actually will bring tariffs down in long term and increasing quality of electricity Nothing changes in india .. Making fool of masses in name of socialism can not undone in india & it will require a visionary leader to undo that ..

Liquor scam also please, how he went from liquor ban promise to liquor manufacturing government.

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

Modi shud have bought the white paper on NPA mess in 2014

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.

At the time of COVID, there might be electricity bill defaulters. Does it may a reason?

Sekhar Gupta I wonder you joined hands with yellow media 🤔 wearing yellow shirt too😂

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.

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).

Every district should have 1000 megawatts solar power plant built by private sector and make every district self sufficient in power protection.

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?

@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?

CBN granted power purchase agreements for what ever prices the companies asked which will hit the customers hardest. Polavaram disaster is only due to CBN illogically constructing coffer dam and diaphragm wall first even before spillway that caused the already constructed diaphragm wall and cofferdams to damage because of floods which caused delay beyond 2029 and is going to cost 20,000 crores to rebuild these walls

NDA government. Not TDP government. You have JSP also in the government.

Just because one didn't like his predecessor policy whatever the reasons just by cancelling those policies he just jeopardized the state the figures are out there...but we people don't bother that irrespective of parties we have to pay for a guy's poor decision still baffle with each other regarding the parties😢

Nice

Thanks for letting us know how Jagan ruined the system. Hope CBN can do some repair to the economy of Andhra

I seriously imagined that you were going to speak on the elections in U. K., France, Iran when you returned.

Corruption is the elephant in the room. Most states take low calorie coal from Adani and pay for High energy coal

Basically, "the give and take of competitive electoral politics". also known as revdi, can fuss up the financial future of voters.

Still waiting for a non corrupt entitled dynastic brat who can work in Indian politics.

Sir buy some land in Amaravathi, in 5 years it will be thrice the value of purchase.

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.🙌

Jagan reddy did all these irregularities with blessings of mr modi and shah

This is what happens when people like Jagan reddy is voted to power