NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar on Friday expressed concern over Andhra Pradesh's "huge" revenue deficit and increasing unbudgeted expenditure even as the YSRC government pitched for "liberal" assistance from the national planning body as well as the 15th Finance Commission, citing losses due to the state's bifurcation.
YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has come out with yet another master stroke to appease the weaker sections.
The YSR Congress party government in Andhra Pradesh, which has inherited a completely ruined financial position, huge debts and mounting arrears, has asked for a liberal financial assistance from the Centre.
As expected, former MLA from Ramachandrapuram constituency in East Godavari district Thota Trimurthulu resigned from the party. He is most likely to take a plunge ito the YSR Congress party shortly.
The Andhra Pradesh government on Friday constituted an expert committee to suggest comprehensive development strategy for all-round development of the entire state, including its capital.
Retired IAS officer IYR Krishna Rao, who had served as Andhra Pradesh chief secretary in the initial years of Telugu Desam Party government headed by N Chandrababu Naidu in the last term, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party a few months before the assembly elections.
YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy seems to have followed the route shown by his Telangana counterpart K Chandrasekhar Rao in tightening the screws around two “yellow media” channels which have spitting venom on his government.
Ace badminton player PV Sindhu on Friday met Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy at the state secretariat in Amaravati.
YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is understood to have decided to go ahead with the ongoing process of reverse tenders to complete the balance works of Polavaram lift irrigation project and also hydro power project.
It looks like Singapore government, which had played a major role in preparing the master plan and also taking up development of core capital in Amaravati, has lost its hopes on the revival of the project.
YSR Congress party government headed by Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy might be claiming to have successfully prevented opposition leader and Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu’s attempt to take out a rally to Palnadu to create a big hungama there on Wednesday.
As expected, senior Telugu Desam Party leader and former minister from Kadapa C Adinarayana Reddy defected to the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday.
All government-run schools in Andhra Pradesh will have English as the medium of instruction from class 1 to 8, Chief Minister Y S. Jagan Mohan Reddy announced on Wednesday.
Andhra Pradesh High Court judge, Justice B. Siva Sankara Rao will head the Judiciary Preview Committee, which will preview all infrastructure projects valued Rs 100 crore and above before inviting tenders.
In a yet another instance of strengthening the bond between the two Telugu states, a young woman Telangana IPS officer is learnt to be getting married to the kin of Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
