Vijayawada: AP finance minister Buggana Rajendranath declared that YSRC government has brought in welfare schemes like Nadu-Nedu and Amma Vodi to increase enrolment of students in government schools to 42 lakh from 37 lakh during the TD regime.
Addressing media here on Thursday, he refuted allegations of Telugu Desam chief N. Chandrababu Naidu that YSRC government had closed down 6,000 government schools because of which the number of students in government schools had fallen by 4 lakh.
Rajendranath produced at the press conference records explaining that in fact when Telugu Desam government came to power in 2014, there had been about 42 lakh students in government schools. But by 2019, their number had dropped to 37 lakh. “However, after our government has come to power, number of students in government schools has once again reached 42 lakh due to special attention paid to government schools,” he underlined.
The finance minister objected to Naidu referring to him (Rajendranath) as appula (debts) minister. He maintained that in fact people’s debt has decreased as their government has provided 2.10 lakh jobs against only 34,000 jobs created by the TD government.
Rajendranath recalled that when Naidu assumed power, Independence Day had been celebrated in Kurnool that year. As then CM, he made many promises like cement products hub, nuclear fuel complex (NFC) in Koilakuntla, deer park in Alur, tiger park in Srisailam, solar and wind power plants and railway wagons’ workshop. But he did not keep even a single promise.
The minister maintained that industries, solar and wind power plants had come to the state only after YSRC assumed power.
