Telangana has sent electricity restoration teams to cyclone-hit Andhra Pradesh after a request from Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, with personnel from the Southern Power Distribution Company of Telangana Limited (SPDCL) tasked with repairing damaged poles and power lines across affected districts.
The teams left on Thursday as Andhra Pradesh faced widespread power outages and infrastructure damage. Preliminary estimates indicate that more than 16,000 electricity poles have been uprooted, leaving hundreds of villages without electricity.
The assistance followed a phone conversation between Naidu, Andhra Pradesh Energy Minister Gottipati Ravi and Telangana Deputy Chief Minister and Energy Minister Bhatti Vikramarka. Naidu briefed Vikramarka on the situation in Anakapalli, Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram, Srikakulam, Eluru, NTR, Guntur, Parvathipuram Manyam and Alluri Sitharama Raju districts.
According to the report, Naidu said the cyclone had caused extensive crop damage and severely disrupted power infrastructure. He requested additional electricity personnel, equipment and machinery to accelerate restoration work in the affected areas.
After consulting Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, Vikramarka agreed to provide the requested support. He directed officials to arrange the necessary personnel and equipment and to take relief measures aimed at restoring electricity supply to the public at the earliest.
The deployment highlights the operational demands created when a severe weather event damages electricity networks across several districts at the same time. Restoring supply requires field teams to identify broken poles, assess damaged lines and reconnect distribution infrastructure while working in areas that may also be dealing with crop losses and other cyclone-related disruption.
The scale of the reported damage means that restoration is not limited to individual local faults. More than 16,000 uprooted poles represent a widespread disruption to the distribution network, while the reference to hundreds of villages without power indicates that the impact extends across rural settlements as well as larger affected areas.
For residents, electricity restoration is linked to the return of basic services and normal activity after the cyclone. Power is needed for household use, local communications, water systems and other essential functions, although the supplied report does not provide a district-wise restoration schedule or a projected completion date.
Telangana’s teams are expected to support Andhra Pradesh’s existing response capacity as repair work begins across the named districts. The immediate official priority is to deploy the requested personnel, machinery and equipment and restore electricity supply in the cyclone-hit areas.
