Hyderabad: The budget session of Telangana Legislature began today with governor ESL Narasimhan assuring that the state will not face any power cut during the ensuing summer season though the demand was likely to touch an all-time high of 9500 to 10000MW.

Delivering the customary opening address to the joint session of both the Houses, the governor said the government was working to replace power holidays with ‘power every day and anytime”.

The address, which was boycotted by the main opposition Congress party, largely focused on highlighting various development and welfare measures of the state government. Narasimhan spoke at length about the efforts to maintain regular power supply and make Telangana a power surplus state as the power sector had a very important role to play in the progress and prosperity in the state.

He said that though last month the demand for power had touched an all-time high of 9000MW the government had succeeded in ensuring uninterrupted power supply. He pointed out that the power generation capacity at the time of formation of Telangana state in June 2014 was 6574MW, the government had added generation capacity of 4190MW during the last two and a half years and another 4190MW will be added during the current year.

The total power availability in the state will reach 16306MW by the end of next three years, he added. This will include 1000MW power purchased from Chattisgarh and 3727MW from solar generation. The completion of Wardah-Dichpalli transmission line will also enable the state to tap 2000MW through northern grid from anywhere in the country as and when required, he said.

However the opposition Congress party members staged a noisy walkout from the House during the governor’s address. They were protesting against the absence of any mention of two bedroom houses for the poor, three acres of land to the poor SC and ST families and 12 per cent reservation for Muslims and ST and a sub plan for backward classes. Addressing the media, the leader of opposition K Jana Reddy said, “there was no mention of any facts in the governor’s address. He did not say anything about the problems facing the state”.

G Kishan Reddy of BJP demanded to know where the funds coming from the Center were being spent.