YSRCP’s focus on consolidating support base via welfare schemes

• Flagship Navaratnalu reaches grassroot

• AP’s per capita income increased to Rs 2.19 lakh

• 352 MoUs worth 13.05 lakh crore signed at GIS

• 4 ports work on at Rs 16,000 crore

• 10 fishing harbours, 6 fish land centers at Rs 3,700 crore

• 24 SEZ operational, 33 formally approved

Visakhapatnam: Springing a big surprise with a landslide win in the 2019 general elections, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has been focusing on further expanding his support base through a plethora of welfare schemes and introduction of village/ward secretariats.

The Chief Minister celebrated the day with his wife Bharati Reddy at the Missionaries of Charity Nirmal Hriday Bhavan at Vijayawada, the home for the sick and destitutes. He also inaugurated the new complex constructed for destitutes and interacted with the inmates on the campus.

Completing four years in office in the highest elected post of Andhra Pradesh, the Chief Minister has not only fulfilled his promises made in his flagship Navaratnalu, he has also tried to reach out to the people at the grassroots by launching schemes like Family Doctor Programme and giving goodies through Amma Vodi etc. He has also launched a massive housing scheme to provide independent houses in one cent of land to the BPL families as well as digitising land data and conducting a State-wide survey through various technological advancements like drone cameras.

Even as a question mark hangs over trifurcation of the State Capital due to legal hurdles with executive capital in Visakhapatnam, judicial capital in Kurnool and legislative capital in Amaravati, with elections slated to be held just a year later, Reddy announced at Global Investors’ Summit, another curtain-raiser meeting in New Delhi and foundation-stone laying ceremony of Mulapeta Port in Srikakulam that he will relocate his family to Visakhapatnam from September. This suggests that he will have a camp office in the city thereby making Visakhapatnam the administrative capital of Andhra Pradesh.

YSRCP leaders claim that they have fulfilled 98.5 per cent of promises, transferred Rs 3 lakh crore under DBT and non-DBT schemes. Rs 2.11 lakh crore was transferred directly to the bank accounts of beneficiaries in the past four years leading to a cryptic comment by Leader of Opposition N Chandrababu Naidu that “Jagan has become a button-pressing Chief Minister.”

Out of 89 Special Economic Zones, 24 have become operational and 33 are formally approved. The State retained the numero uno status in EDB and recorded a growth of 16.22 per cent in 2022-23 over the previous year with agricultural, industrial and services posting a growth of 36.19 per cent, 23.36 per cent and 40.45 per cent respectively. While India’s per capita income went up Rs 1.72 lakh from 1.48 lakh in 2021-22, the State’s per capita income increased to Rs 2.19 lakh from Rs 1.92 lakh during the period under review.

“Our government under the leadership of Jagan Mohan Reddy is accelerating development across the State. We have signed 352 MoUs worth 13.05 lakh crore at Global Investors’ Summit across 20 sectors and taken up work on four ports with an investment of Rs 16,000 crore and 10 fishing harbours and six fish land centers at a cost of Rs 3,700 crore. We are also on track in taking up work on Kadapa Steel Plant. This government is a government of action not only like empty promises by the one led by Chandrababu Naidu during 2014-19,” Industries Minister Gudivada Amarnath told Bizz Buzz. Work on six new airports including Rs 5,000 crore (first phase project) Bhogapuram International Airport have already been kickstarted.