The Telangana government has deputed five IAS officers to review coal handling and power generation at the Yadadri Thermal Power Station (YTPS) between October 15 and 30, with the exercise focused on whether all four coal streams and generating units are operating as intended.
Chief Secretary Sanjay Jaju said the officers would camp at the plant in separate shifts and follow Standard Operating Procedures while examining the reasons for any interruption or loss of generation. The review will cover coal movement, feeding systems, equipment performance, pending works and the turnaround time for unloading coal rakes.
Chevvuru Hari Kiran, Commissioner, Prohibition and Excise, will be at YTPS from October 15 to 17. Venkatesh Dhotre, Special Secretary to Government, Education Department, will conduct the next review from October 18 to 19. Rahul Raj P.S., Special Commissioner for Cooperation and Registrar of Cooperative Societies, will camp at the station from October 22 to 24.
Zendage Hanumant Kondiba, CEO of the Arogyasri Health Care Trust, is scheduled to review operations from October 25 to 27, followed by Killu Sivakumar Naidu, Commissioner, R&R and LA, I&CAD, from October 28 to 30.
The officers have been asked to establish the maximum coal flow for which the plant was designed and compare it with the current flow. They will also examine the grade of coal being received and whether electricity generation matches the expected output for that grade. The review is intended to identify any gap between the fuel supplied and the power generated.
Another area of examination will be whether coal is being fed to all four units at full levels. The officers must record reasons wherever this is not happening. They will also assess the operation of vertical gravity feeders, or VGFs, and check whether reported jams are affecting the movement of coal into bunkers.
The review will further examine pending works assigned to Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, along with the process for coal rake unloading. Officials will study the time taken to unload and turn around rakes and identify ways to improve that process. These checks link plant generation to the wider logistics chain that brings coal to the station.
The government has also asked the officers to establish whether all four units are delivering full generation and, if not, to document the reasons for the loss. The review’s findings are expected to provide an operational assessment of coal availability, handling systems, equipment-related constraints and unit-level generation performance at YTPS.
