Andhra Chief Minister Seeks Rs 17,060 Crore “Dues” From Centre, Continued Support To Deal With Covid

Amaravati:

Andhra Pradesh Leader Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Wednesday submitted a memorandum to the Centre asking for that it straight away free up a sum of Rs 17,060.94 crore that was once because of the state underneath quite a lot of heads.

Right through his two-day commute to New Delhi, the Leader Minister conferred with Union House Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday evening and once more on Wednesday morning.

A free up from the Leader Ministers Workplace mentioned Mr Jagan raised quite a lot of state problems with Mr Shah and sought the latters beef up “to proceed to reply successfully to the evolving COVID-19 disaster.”

“The fiscal rigidity has annoyed manifold because of the drying up of revenues because of the inevitable lockdown measures, the diminished quantum of switch of Central taxes on this fiscal and the rise in expenditure necessitated through the wish to comprise the COVID-19 pandemic,” he advised the House Minister.

The Leader Minister introduced an inventory of grants pending to the state from the Centre and asked that they be launched forthwith.

The grants come with Rs 2,253.52 crore for rural and concrete native our bodies (14th Finance Fee), Rs three,622.07 crore GST reimbursement, Rs 700 crore building help to backward districts, Rs 1,000 crore for capital town building, Rs 1,600 crore rice subsidy, Rs 138.39 crore earnings deficit grant and Rs three,740.53 crore underneath MGNREGS, the discharge mentioned.

But even so, Rs four,006.43 crore must be reimbursed for the Polavaram irrigation challenge works.

Relating to the earnings deficit grant that has been some degree of war between the Centre and the state, the Leader Minister pleaded that free up of the steadiness quantity of Rs 18,830.87 crore, as authorized through the CAG and claimed through the state govt, can also be kindly thought to be sympathetically.

On Polavaram, he asked that suitable steps be taken to approve the revised challenge price and in addition authorise NABARD for elevating the credit score to Rs 18,000 crore within the present monetary yr.

The method of free up is also streamlined through authorising NABARD to open a right away line of credit score as Revolving Fund with the Polavaram Mission Authority (PPA), as it’s tricky for the state govt to stay giving cash upfront and claiming compensation, Mr Jagan mentioned.

The Leader Minister additionally met Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat at the Polavaram factor and made the similar request.

Mr Jagan mentioned a sum of Rs 18,000 crore can be required through the top of March 2021 for crowning glory of the Polavaram works, together with rehabilitation and resettlement of the challenge displaced households.

Bringing up quite a lot of laws, the Leader Minister sought after the Jal Shakti Minister to free up finances for Polavaram prematurely to cut back burden at the precarious price range of the state.