CM Kiran Kumar Reddy met Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday to obtain approval for the Rs. 47,558 crores alloted for plan expenditure in the state budget.
Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy met Minister of Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad, on Friday morning, to obtain approval for the Rs. 47,558 crores alloted for plan expenditure in the Rs. 1,28,542 crores state budget for fiscal year 2011-12.
The state government had pegged the annual budget at Rs. 1,28,542 crores, with Rs. 80,984 crores being allocated for non-plan expenditure. The budget deficit is Rs. 17,600 crores while the revenue surplus is Rs. 3,826 crores.
The budget allotted Rs. 4,108 crores for the construction and maintenance of roads & buildings, Rs. 1,230 crores for the implementation of tribal welfare schemes, Rs. 2,500 crores for civil supplies, Rs. 2,500 crores for the 1kg-rice-for-Rs. 2 scheme, Rs. 4,980 crores for the energy sector, Rs. 5,040 crores for the health sector and Rs. 2,104 crores for the enhancement of social welfare.
Besides addressing the issue of the annual budget, the CM also intends to explain the political situation in the state (read the Kadapa by-polls) to the High Command, and the problems faced by the state in the storage of food-grains.
Kiran Kumar Reddy is also expected to discuss the setting up of 3,035 English-medium schools across the state.
Speculations are rife that, while in New Delhi, the CM may also try to convince the Centre to implement both Polavaram and Pranahita-Chavella as national projects, as against the Centre's proposal to declare only one of the 2 as national projects.