Storm over Union budget changes Andhra Pradesh political landscape

HYDERABAD: Be it the shortage of doctors or lack of proper facilities the number of surgeries performed at government medical colleges in Telangana is significantly lower than those performed in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh. The two procedures where the difference is significant are knee replacement and bypass surgeries. According to official records government teaching hospitals in Telangana saw only 26 bypass surgeries being performed in 2017 even as the count in AP hospitals was a staggering 406. In case of knee replacement surgeries the count was 16 for http://pokemonworld.vforums.co.uk/profile/kkmyntra Telangana versus 517 for AP. While medical facilities in Telangana are better than in AP the former has more corporate hospitals. As people prefer undergoing surgeries at these corporate hospitals under the Arogyasri or Employees State Insurance Scheme the number in government facilities is very low in certain specialisations said Karunakar Reddy B vice-chancellor of Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences. He however dismissed lack of staff as a reason for this disparity. Staff shortage is not a major reason as we perform a lot of surgeries in other specialisations apart from orthopaedics and cardiology he said. Underplaying the issue K Ramesh Reddy director of medical education (DME) said that there are 133 specialisations including paediatrics wherein operations can be performed only in government hospitals for patients to avail of the Arogyasri scheme. In these departments he said the count of surgeries in Telangana is way higher. Between January and December we have performed a total of 77 915 major surgeries and another 1 77 986 minor surgeries across teaching hospitals in Telangana. The same trend continues in the outpatient and inpatient departments where we treated scores of patients in 2017 said Ramesh Reddy adding that lot of neurological and plastic surgeries and renal transplants among others have been performed in these facilities. Raising their concern over the disparity house surgeons said that it limits their scope for hands-on experience. Though there are a lot of surgeries happening in city hospitals which allow us a chance to learn in peripheral areas it isn t the case said Abhishek V a junior doctor while upholding the lack of staff as a serious concern.
The Bharatiya Janata Party today said it would give a fitting reply to those criticising the Narendra Modi government for not doing anything for Andhra Pradesh. Andhra Pradesh has been surging ahead on the path of progress thanks to the blessings and total support of Prime Minister Narendra Modi the party asserted. The BJP said it would exhibit to the people a list of facts and figures and projects the Centre had sanctioned for the state. A misinformation campaign is being carried out against the Central government saying it had done nothing for AP and had ignored the promises made in the AP Reorganisation Act 2014. We will go to the people and place all the facts before them BJP state president Kambhampati Haribabu said. Barring three promises we have fulfilled all the others. In fact the Centre has given much more to the state than what was provided for in the Reorganisation Act Haribabu added. The state unit s office-bearers district presidents and senior leaders of the party held an extensive meeting here today and discussed the ongoing political developments in the state in the aftermath of the presentation of Union Budget 2018-19. The meeting assumed significance against the backdrop of a slugfest between NDA partners BJP and TDP over Central aid to AP in the last four years. Addressing the meeting Haribabu who is an MP from Visakhapatnam said only the Dugarajapatnam port Kadapa steel plant and Visakhapatnam railway zone did not happen though they were promised in the Reorganisation Act. Though the railway zone at Visakhapatnam was found to be not feasible the Centre is discussing the issue with neighbouring states to find a way out. We are hopeful that a positive decision will come out soon he said. The port and the steel plant were under the active consideration of the Centre Haribabu added. Referring to the renewed demand for grant of special category status (SCS) to AP the MP said a special economic package that was equivalent to the SCS had been granted to the state. The dispute over bridging the state s revenue deficit (for the year 2014-15) would also be resolved soon he said adding that development was possible only through mutual co-operation between the Centre and the state. It has been so till now and hopefully will continue in future as well Haribabu said adding the Narendra Modi government was fully committed to help the state grow further. State Ministers Kamineni Srinivas P Manikyala Rao Narsapuram MP Gokaraju Ganga Raju the BJP floor leader in the Assembly P Vishnu Kumar Raju MLCs Somu Veerraju P V N Madhav and other senior leaders attended the meeting. Meanwhile MLC Veerraju said the BJP was also ready for a debate on what the Centre did for AP in the last four years. The BJP legislator was reacting to Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu s announcement yesterday that he was ready for a debate on the Central assistance to the state. When we are allies why go for a public debate? Let him (Chief Minister) invite our state party president and he will give all details. Our president is ready to reveal all facts so let the Chief Minister call him and talk Veerraju a vociferous critic of the TDP said.
KADAPA : Five bloated bodies of suspected red sanders smugglers were fished out of a lake near Vontimitta on Kadapa-Tirupati highway in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday just 48 hours after a gang allegedly wriggled out of police clutches metres away from the site. Police said identity or cause of death is not known but suspect the deceased could be from Tamil Nadu. A senior police officer of Kadapa district denied cops chased smugglers but confirmed routine search operations of vehicles to stop movement of smugglers. Kadapa police shifted the bodies to the government hospital mortuary. The autopsy will ascertain cause of death. While villagers said they spotted seven bodies police could fish out only five from the lake. Police also recovered bags and belongings from near the lake. This comes a day after police opened fire in the air to stave off stone- pelting red sanders smugglers deep inside Seshachalam forest in Tirupati district. Five smugglers were arrested while others escaped into the forest Kadapa cops say no combing operation Speaking to TOI Kadapa superintendent of police Babuji Attada said they received information about floating bodies from villagers on Sunday afternoon. The deceased have not been identified. We can divulge details after identities are known he said. Asenior AP intelligence official said On the intervening night of Friday and Saturday police tracked down a vehicle carrying red sanders logs. On being intercepted the smugglers swiftly abandoned the vehicle and fled. The vehicle was shifted to the forest department and there was no encounter. We have to investigate whether the bodies were of red sanders smugglers. Speaking to TOI Kadapa hospital forensic doctor Prof Anand Kumar said After the autopsy on Monday we will zero in on cause of death. The viscera will be sent for forensic examination to find presence of diatoms. Villagers however said the men are not from surrounding villages but workers from Tamil Nadu who cut and transport red sanders logs. It s alleged men are smugglers who drowned while trying to escape a police combing party. Kadapa SP Babuji said no combing operation had been carried out in the area over the week. Officer on Special Duty (OSD) Operations Adnan Nayeem Asmi rushed to the spot and took stock of the situation. Later he issued a press statement saying they are verifying missing persons cases in adjacent districts. A case has been registered under Section 174 of CrPC. With the help of fishermen police and fire service personnel are still searching the lake for more bodies.
Andhra Pradesh Police are investigating the surfacing of seven bodies in a lake in Kadapa district s Ontimitta on Sunday. No external injuries were found on their bodies District Superintendent of Police Nagi Reddy told NDTV. The deceased may have been labourers working for red sanders smugglers unidentified officials said. Police however said they did not have any details about their identity yet. Since it must be 24 to 48 hours after death the bodies are bloated and it is very difficult to find out who they are and how they came there and what caused their death Nagi told NDTV.The Red Sanders Anti-Smuggling Task Force chief M Kanta Rao claimed he was not aware about the bodies found and said his team did not have operations in the area.
YSR Congress President Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy last Monday had a meeting with party leaders including MPs at the end of the 85th day of his Pad Yatra to decide the course of action in their fight against the injustice allegedly meted out to Andhra Pradesh by the Centre. The Centre they say has not kept promises made to the state at the time of its bifurcation in 2014. 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New Delhi: The proposed petrochemical complex at Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh a joint project of GAIL and HPCL seems to have hit a roadblock with the Centre asking the state government to pay Rs 5 000 crore upfront in the form of viability gap funding (VGF).Establishing a greenfield crude oil refinery and petrochemical complex has been mandated under Schedule XIII of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act 2014 which paved the way for the creation of Telangana state.The complex at Kakinada East Godavari district is proposed to be jointly set up by GAIL and HPCL both central PSUs.After a feasibility study by Engineers India Ltd GAIL and HPCL signed a memorandum of understanding with the AP government during the Partnership Summit in January 2017 for setting up the 1.5 MMTPA petrochemical complex on a 2 000-acre site in the Kakinada Special Economic Zone.But the Rs 30 000-crore project did not take off with the Centre and the state squabbling over the VGF said a top official.The proposed complex with a cracker unit was supposed to produce ethylene and its derivatives. SBI Caps did a preliminary financial appraisal and concluded that with a debt-equity ratio of 2:1 the project will yield internal rate of return of 9.8 per cent as against the hurdle rate (the minimum rate of return on a project) of 15 per cent. To bridge this gap viability gap funding in the form of an interest-free loan of Rs 1 438 crore per year has been suggested for a 15 year period beginning from the Project Zero date the official told PTI.Following a meeting between Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and GAIL authorities it was decided that SBI Caps would revise the financial model pegging down the power and water supply rates he said.Besides an upfront VGF payment as soft loan was also agreed to be examined taking different IRRs (internal rates of return). The detailed techno-commercial report for this project was still being prepared he added. The AP government has requested the Centre to reduce the IRR to 10-12 per cent on the lines of HPCL s Barmer refinery in Rajasthan. For the Barmer refinery the VGF has been reduced from Rs 3 736 crore to Rs 1 123 crore per annum adjusting the IRR to 12 per cent. But the Centre has been insisting that we chip in with a VGF of Rs 5 000 crore the senior official involved in the project pointed out.Naidu during his visit to New Delhi in January took up the issue with Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and expressed the state government s inability to foot the VGF bill. He wanted the petroleum ministry to take up the burden. We are awaiting a response from the Centre to our plea the official added.Meanwhile the state government also suggested an alternative location for the proposed project. Instead of Kakinada we proposed that the cracker unit be set up at the upcoming Machilipatnam Port which is closer to the state capital Amaravati. This will help in economic development of the region. The Centre is yet to respond even to this plea said the official.
NEW DELHI: The differences between BJP and TDP show no signs of abating with the former being secure that Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu does not have any option of an alliance outside the NDA and the saffron party keeping the doors open for Jagan Mohan Reddy-led YSRCP to walk in post Lok Sabha elections if it needs the numbers. TDP is in a fix over the Narendra Modi government refusing to play ball on several promises made by the previous Manmohan Singh-led dispensation when Andhra Pradesh was bifurcated to form Telangana. Sources said payments for works done on a slew of projects including Polavaram irrigation project to those in new capital Amravati are pending as the costs have gone up and the Centre is not willing to provide the funds as per the revised estimates. YSRCP the main political opponent of TDP has declared that its MPs will quit if Andhra Pradesh is not given special status by April 5. While both parties are aware that the 14th Finance Commission has made it clear that no state can be given special status it has not prevented them from raking up this issue. However YSRCP has been alleging that TDP has been unable to get funds for AP from the Centre despite being a part of the NDA. This has made TDP up the ante against the Centre sources said. BJP has not been very forthcoming on the demands being made by TDP in the last four years. Naidu made 29 trips to Delhi since he became the chief minister but could have a structured meeting http://hsepeoplejobs.com/members/kkjabong/ with PM Modi only once on January 12 this year. Home minister Rajnath Singh had made a call to Naidu but that was only to reassure him. Even BJP chief Amit Shah has not discus sed any of the demands in his conversation with Naidu and only promised to look into the issues a TDP leader said. Modi has entrusted Shah and finance minister Arun Jaitley with the task of dealing with the TDP demands. Jaitley has loosened his purse strings on some occasions for Andhra Pradesh but the amount given has been highly insufficient TDP leaders said. The Modi government has a clear majority on its own in the Lok Sabha and this does not give TDP much bargaining power as an NDA partner. Moreover with Congress now a weak force in AP- 174 of its 175 candidates lost their deposit in the last Assembly elections in 2014- BJP has the option of having a post-poll tie-up with YSRCP. Sources said while a pre-poll alliance with BJP does not suit either TDP or YSRCP things would be different after elections. Jagan may antagonise his Christian and Dalit voters if he has a pre-poll tie-up with BJP. YSRCP is in touch with BJP brass in Delhi sources said.