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Andhra Pradesh govt asks discoms to be consumer-centric

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Power purchasearrears and operating expenses reached the Rs 32,000 crore mark in April 2019, up from Rs 12,500 crore in June 2014. Withdiscomsfacing a severe financial crisis, the came to their rescue and released Rs 28,166

crore to power companies between 2019-20 and 2020-21.

Of the total electricity subsidy arrears of Rs 13,388 crore as on March 31, 2019, the state government released Rs 11,442 crore between 2019 and 2021. It also provided Rs 16,724 crore forpower subsidyand other charges during the same period. Discoms paid Rs 64,007 crore towards power purchase costs.

Rains push up kharif sowing in coastal AP

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Moderateto heavyrainslashed many parts of north coastal Andhra Pradesh and Light to moderate rains lashed a few parts of Rayalaseema region on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. The showers brought some relief to the people and the farming community.

Pathapatnam in Srikakulam district and Bheemili in Vizag district recorded 7 cm rainfall each which brought down the day temperature by 4 to 5 degrees Celsius.

The heavy rains in north coastal

Andhra Pradesh have pushed up the sowing ofkharifcrops – paddy and pulses. The farmers said the erratic monsoon was the reason for the delay in farming activities in the kharif season.

Andhra Pradesh: Targets set for village clinics, digital libraries

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy set targets for the panchayat raj and rural development department to complete construction of buildings for village clinics, digital libraries and village and ward secretariats.

He wanted the officials to complete the works and hand over the

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finished buildings to the respective department by the end of 2021.

The chief minister addressed officials during a review meeting at his Tadepalli camp office on Tuesday. The officials briefed him on the progress of the construction work of all three categories. He also reviewed the provision of basic in Jagananna colonies.

The chief minister directed them to complete works on roads, drains, drinking water, electricity and other infrastructure in the Jagananna colonies. He also told them to procure other infrastructure to maintain greenery and handle garbage in villages in the state.

Jagan launches distribution of Vidya Kanuka kits worth 1,042 crore

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has launched the distribution of Jagananna Vidya Kanuka kits worth Rs 1,042.53 crore under the scheme that would benefit 43,10,165 students of Classes I to X in

government and government-aided schools.

This is the fourth consecutive year that the is distributing the kits to deserving students. Each kit costs Rs 2,400.

The distribution of kits was taken up all over the state in the presence of ministers, MLAs, MLCs, MPs and other public representatives in a festive Atmosphere.

The CM said that this time, the government has come up with better-quality material in the kits, based on the feedback it received from the stakeholders. He listed out the material contained in each kit, like three pairs of uniform dress, a school bag, bilingual textbooks, notebooks, workbooks, a pair of school shoes, two pairs of socks, a belt, an English to Telugu dictionary and a school bag of larger size.

The Chief Minister announced that the AP government has signed an MoU with

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the Educational Testing Service to train students from Classes three to nine, to improve their skills and appear for TOEFL. This apart, under this programme, select groups of English teachers would be made to attend orientation courses in the US from the current academic year.

The CM promised efforts to link Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine Learning, data analysis, language learning module and Chat GPT with the Education system in the state so that students could get an exposure to the international education system.

To promote higher education, the government is providing fee-reimbursement to the students with no cap on the number of beneficiaries in each family. So far, a sum of Rs 10,636 crore was spent on this. Under the Vasanthi Deevena, the government spent Rs 4,275 crore so far, he said.

The CM said that the government was providing financial assistance upto Rs 1.25 crore each for students to pursue professional education in top universities around the world, under the Jagananna Videshi Deevana. The government had spent Rs 60,329 crore on the Education sector in the last four years in AP, he said.

Andhra Pradesh starts ramping up paediatric infrastructure

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

In its preparation for the third wave ofCovid-19, theAndhra Pradeshhealth department would set up 19 more RT-PCR labs in addition to the existing 14 labs in the state.

Meanwhile, the Health department has floated tenders for procuring 700 neonatal andpaediatricventilators. The Paediatric Task Force, constituted to guide on Covid-19 treatment among the paediatric group during the anticipated third wave, recommended dedicated paediatric intensive care unit(s) at medical college/tertiary unit (one to two per district). The health department has preliminarily decided to add 1,600 paediatricICU bedsto the existing TEACHING and tertiary hospitals.

Andhra Pradesh Medical Service & Development (APMSIDC) has invited bids for providing architectural and engineering consultancy Services,

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including preparation of detailed project reports, for the proposed paediatric super specialty hospitals inVisakhapatnam,Vijayawadaand Tirupati. The State Government has recently decided to develop three paediatric super specialty hospitals with 180 crore each in three different regions of the state.

Andhra Pradesh has logged the Growth of its gross state domestic product (GSDP) at 16.22 per cent for 2022-23, a rise over the previous fiscal and signifying faster economic growth.

Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy released the states Socio Economic Survey 2022-23 on Wednesday. The GSDP at current prices for 2022-23 (advance estimates) was put at Rs 13,17,728 crore against the Rs 11,33,837 crore of 2021-22 — meaning a net addition of Rs 1,83,891 crore to the states economy.

Gross value-added growth rate at current prices for Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and allied sectors was registered at 13.18 per cent — with agriculture showing 20.72, 12.58, Livestock 7.32 and Fisheries 19.41 per cent.

In Industry, it is 16.36 per cent — with mining and quarrying at 15.81, manufacturing at 11.81, electricity, gas and others 30.96 and construction 16.94 per cent. Services-sector”>services sector also registered a GVA growth rate of 18.91 per cent — with trade and hotels at 28.42, railways at 17.82, transport by other means at 21..64 and real estate at 13.14 per cent.

In 2021-22, AP had posted a record growth of 7.02 per cent at constant prices against an all-India growth of 7.0. Accordingly, agriculture and allied sectors registered a growth of 4.54, industry 5.66 and services 10.05 per cent. As for sectoral contributions, agriculture registered 36.19, industry 23.36 and services 40.45 per cent.

The per capita income of AP at current prices increased to Rs 2,19,518 crore in 2022-23 against Rs 1,92,587 crore in 2021-22, by registering a jump of Rs 26,931crore a year. The per capita income growth rate at current prices in 2021-22 stood at 13.98. The all

India per capita income for 2022-23 is Rs 1,72,000 — up from Rs 1,48,524 in 2021-22; showing a jump of Rs 23,476.

As for Navaratnalu and related schemes, AP government has incurred a spend of Rs 1.97 lakh crore so far through direct benefit transfer (DBT) in sectors like Education, Health, Women, farmers, welfare etc.

For education, the government strengthened Infrastructure in all government schools under Mana Badi Nadu-Nedu in three phases at a cost of Rs 15,000 crore. In phase-1, 15,717 schools were developed at a cost of Rs 3,669 crore; and in three years, 57,189 schools and 3,280 other educational institutions were developed at a cost of Rs 16,022 crroe.

For Jagananna Ammavodi, an expense of Rs 19,617.60 crore was incurred. For Jagananna Vidya Kanuka, the government provided student tool kits to 47.4 lakh students from Classes I to X involving a cost of Rs 2,368 crore. For Jagananna Gorumudda, it spent Rs 3,239 crore to address problems of Malnutrition and to provide enriched mid-day meal to 43.26 lakh students. For Jagananna Vidya Deeevena, it spent Rs 9,249 crore; and for Jagananna Vasanthi Deevena Rs 3,366 crore.

For health, Nutrition and women welfare, the State Government initiated the family physician concept with two doctors per PHC; and YSR Aarogyasri provides 3,255 procedures to benefit 1.41 crore families.

For women Empowerment, schemes like YSR Cheyutha was implemented at a cost of Rs 14,129 crore while the government spent Rs 12,758 crore for YSR Aasara. Under YSR Sunna Vaddi, an interest free loan of Rs 3,615 crore was sanctioned for 1,02 crore SHG members.

Under housing and social safety nets, 30.65 lakh house site pattas — each worth Rs 5 lakh to Rs 10 lakh were distributed to women under the Pedalandiriki Illu scheme. Of these, 21.25 lkah houses were sanctioned and construction of 4.4 lakh houses completed. A plan is to provide basic amenities to all the layouts in YSR Jagananna Colonies at a cost of Rs 32,909 crore.

Farmers welfare: A total of 52.38 lakh farmer families had benefited from an agricultural allocation of Rs 27,063 crore. For free crop Insurance, a sum of Rs 6,872 crore was released to benefit 44.55 lakh farmers.

The AP government successfully conducted the Global Investors Summit 2023 in Visakhapatnam. As many as 378 MoUs were singed with a commitment of Rs 13.42 lakh crore to generate over six lakh jobs. Notably, AP got first rank for three consecutive years in the Ease of Doing Business, the Socio-Economic Survey 2022-23 noted.