VIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy called on Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi late on Wednesday night nd urged him to expedite several issues which remained unresolved even nine years after the unscientific bifurcation, pushing the residual Andhra Pradesh backwards in terms of development and revenue.
Jagan was scheduled to meet Amit Shah at 9.30 PM last night but it was delayed and the meeting started around 11 PM.
The Chief Minister appealed to the Home Minister to release Rs.10,000 crore immediately on ad-hoc basis to expedite the construction of Polavaram project besides another Rs. 2020 crore to fill the scourge pits formed at the main dam site due to the washing away of diaphragm wall in the flash floods.
He also sought reimbursement of arrears to the tune of Rs. 2600.74 crore incurred by the state Government on Polavaram project and accept the Technical Advisory Committee’s revised estimates of Rs. 55,548 crore and treat the drinking water supply component as a part of it.
The Chief Minister told him that the State has incurred a financial burden of Rs 5,527 crore on supplying ration to 56 lakh families under the PMGKAY due to irrational selection of beneficiaries under the National Food Security Act. To compensate this, unused ration stocks should be allotted to AP as recommended by NITI Aayog.
Jagan urged the Home Minister to release the pending amount of Rs. 36,625 crore under Resource Gap Funding for the fiscal 2014-15 and enhance the credit limit of Rs. 17,923 crore which was reduced from Rs. 42,472 crore post-Covid-19 pandemic.
