Power cuts will be reduced from three hours to one hour in five cities – Hyderabad, Warangal, Tirupati, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam from today in view of reduced demand from agriculture sector.

Finance Minister Anam Ramnarayana Reddy said in district headquarters there will be only two hours power cut and the towns will face four- hour power cuts instead of six hours, in mandal Hqs.

Power consumption in the state which was in the order of 310mu in March came down to 302mu in April and that the Transco was able to supply 255 mu against the demand of 302 mu in April. The gap between demand and supply was around 47mu a day.

He said that the government had requested the Centre for 500mw of additional power, but it succeeded to get only 100 mw. He said that the Centre agreed to supply 26 mw more power from Simhadri Power Station and another 60mw from the central grid.