Centre endlessly waiting for Andhra to revert on special package: Arun Jaitley

[Kool_SRG]

HIGHLIGHTS

• Arun Jaitley said the Centre has been fully committed to giving the promised funds to the state and there has been no delay on its part.
• The TDP, which has 16 MPs in the 545-member Lok Sabha, first pulled out its ministers from the Modi govt and yesterday decided to quit the alliance itself.
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NEW DELHI: A day after TDP quit NDA over lack of financial support, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said the Centre was committed to giving Andhra Pradesh a special package equivalent to a special category state and has been endlessly waiting for the state government to revert on mechanism of receiving it.


Jaitley said the modalities of giving the special package were agreed way back in September 2016 but the state government only in January this year suggested a change in route of receiving funds, to which the Centre agreed but has not heard from it ever since.

"A solution has been put on the table. It is for Andhra Pradesh to decide whether they want the resources or they want to make an issue (out of it)," he told PTI here.

The Telugu Desam Party (TDP), which has 16 MPs in the 545-member Lok Sabha, first pulled out its ministers from the Narendra Modi government and yesterday decided to quit the alliance itself.

The party, which is in power in Andhra Pradesh, had been demanding greater financial assistance to make up for the disadvantage it has been put to since its division in 2014.

Jaitley, however, said the Centre has been fully committed to giving the promised funds to the state and there has been no delay on its part.

He said the so-called special category status cannot be given to Andhra Pradesh in its literal sense after implementation of the award of 14th Finance Commission, which deals with sharing of central government's financial resources with the states.

The constitutionally-mandated Commission gave increased share of states fund in central taxes to 42% from 32% previously and meeting revenue deficit in case any state needs to be extraordinarly compensated.

The minister said a special category state gets to pay just 10% share of the money to be spent on a centrally sponsored scheme in comparison to general category states having to pay 40%. The remaining 90% in case of special category states and 60% in general category states is borne by the Centre.

The 30% equivalent advantage that the special category states had was agreed to be given to Andhra Pradesh for five years. "We found a solution on September 16, 2016 that instead of a special category, we will give a special package," he said adding the funds equivalent to 30 per cent additional funding was to be met in some other form.

Andhra Pradesh, he said, suggested that this should come to it in form of external aided projects wherein the repayment is 90% borne by the Centre and 10% by the state.

"We agreed," he said.But in January this year, Andhra Pradesh changed its stance and said it should come via NABARD, Jaitley said adding the Centre told the state that such funding would increase its fiscal deficit and restrict borrowing space.

So it was suggested that a special purpose vehicle be created into which NABARD can transfer funds. The Centre would have repaid such funds to the extent of 90%, he said.

"On February 7 their officers said they will find out the details and come. No one has come till now," he said. "We have been literally waiting for them to come."

"The Centre has always been willing to give and there is no delay on our part," he said. "The changeover has been done in January by Andhra Pradesh not by us."

On meeting the revenue deficit faced by the state due to carving out of Telangana, Jaitley said 14th Finance Commission has already calculated the funds for 2015 to 2020, which the Centre will pay.

For the 10 months prior to that, the deficit can be calculated either by taking the 2013-14 as the base or by extrapolating revenue of 2015-16. In the first case only Rs 138 crore is left to be paid and if the second is used, Rs 1,600 crore is due. "We have said take it," he said.

"We have been waiting endlessly for a response from them to resolve the issue," he added.

 

 

 

"We have been waiting endlessly for a response from them to resolve the issue," he added.

[Hydrockers]

abbe memu oppukom maku SCS kavali 

 

lekapothe jagan already bus tour kuda plan chesukunadu maku kastam avvudi-- Publity raja

[Android_Halwa]

donga lekkala donka kadultadi...anduke ie 'waiting' game

[boeing747]

Weighttting....we need this athi... interesting days ahead for fulkas, jaffas, baffas and kappas, excluding langas here

[psycopk]

aa mukka monna brothel house lo chepochu ga..

[Spartan]

1 minute ago, psycopk said:

aa mukka monna brothel house lo chepochu ga..

Did u see this..

 

Jaitley said the modalities of giving the special package were agreed way back in September 2016 but the state government only in January this year suggested a change in route of receiving funds, to which the Centre agreed but has not heard from it ever since.
 

[psycopk]

2 minutes ago, Spartan said:

Did u see this..

 

Jaitley said the modalities of giving the special package were agreed way back in September 2016 but the state government only in January this year suggested a change in route of receiving funds, to which the Centre agreed but has not heard from it ever since.
 

chekka and batch ki pasa aaipoindi… vellu eni chepina inka evadu vinadu..they lost their chance to implement special package... there is only one way out special status for AP..

sep 2016 lo accept chesete.. 2018 varaku oka rupai kuda ivaledu… anduke changes suggest chesadu.. ipudu adi edo pedda tapu la chepataniki trying... 

ee naa koduluku ward memebers ga kuda gelavrau.. ee jaitlely… aa jairam ramesh… 

[ARYA]

16 minutes ago, psycopk said:

aa mukka monna brothel house lo chepochu ga..

[Bairagi From Bapatla]

23 minutes ago, psycopk said:

aa mukka monna brothel house lo chepochu ga..

Ala ani self goal vesukoku man akkade mana state mp’s kooda unnaru. Are u considering our state mp’s also brothels

[psycopk]

4 minutes ago, Bairagi From Bapatla said:

Ala ani self goal vesukoku man akkade mana state mp’s kooda unnaru. Are u considering our state mp’s also brothels

nuvvu eni anukuna.. em anukuna.. naku adi brothel house ee… 

[boeing747]

3 minutes ago, Bairagi From Bapatla said:

Ala ani self goal vesukoku man akkade mana state mp’s kooda unnaru. Are u considering our state mp’s also brothels

agree man..kakapothe aa BJ farty valla response chudu, 2016 lo package agree aythe ippatidaka emanna ichara? edo chillara isiresaru hardly..ipudu gola chestante jaitley emo we are waiting endlessly anta..

[Odale]

35 minutes ago, Hydrockers said:

abbe memu oppukom maku SCS kavali 

 

lekapothe jagan already bus tour kuda plan chesukunadu maku kastam avvudi-- Publity raja

Jaggad kastam 

[bhaigan]

Abbo BJP political game shuru chesindi , iga CBN &co ki chukkalu chupistharu emo

[Android_Halwa]

10 minutes ago, Bairagi From Bapatla said:

Ala ani self goal vesukoku man akkade mana state mp’s kooda unnaru. Are u considering our state mp’s also brothels

what better can be expected from a bunch of 16 pimps sitting in a bother house...

[argadorn]

andhra people evarni nammali vayya ...oka clarity evvandi ....