Telangana firmly on the path of development as Andhra deals with past TDP mistakes

[bhaigan]

@lovemystate malli vachindu

[bhaigan]

1 hour ago, Agnes said:

change the title to, 'Andhra still recovering from the separation'.

TDP is not the reason for AP's relative non-performance. TG formation is the main reason. lol.

 

TG formed 6 years back.

You cant blame TG for AP's non-performance, it's the leaders who did wrong negotiations being in the hallucination of united AP

[bhaigan]

16 minutes ago, Agnes said:

no. cbn did what he thought was right.

he made some wrong calculations. he was more ambitious and aspirational. doesnt make him tuglag.

how much do you hate Andhra man? its sick

According to CBN's logic capital should be in center, the ruler who thought capital should be in center is tuglaq. Hence, CBN is considered as tuglaq

Does it is hating Andhra or CBN's faulty vision ?

[speedracer]

3 hours ago, hyperbole said:

Even as Telangana is brimming with initiatives and investments from global majors and Indian corporates, with the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government having its say and way, the state of Andhra Pradesh is grappling with the problems it has inherited.

While KT Rama Rao, the poster boy of Telangana, who is portrayed as the future chief minister of the state, rubbed shoulders with Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey and Google CEO Sundar Pichai at the World Economic Forum (WEF) summit in Davos, and Salesforce cofounder Parker Harris in Hyderabad, Andhra is literally besmirched with no planning and vision for the lofty promises publicised through high-decibel campaigns over the last five-and-a-half years.

Investments galore

Amazon has set up its largest ever campus outside the US in Hyderabad. It now proposes to set up two data centres at an estimated cost of $1.6 billion (about Rs 11,000 crore) in Hyderabad. In his discussions with Pichai, KTR brought up the issue of expediting work on Google’s second-largest campus, outside the US, in Hyderabad.

TRS leaders KT Rama Rao with Google CEO Sundar Pichai in Davos. (Photo: Twitter)

One of the largest pharma companies, Piramal Group, has come forth to invest Rs 500 crore to expand its operations in Pharma City on the outskirts of Hyderabad.

The latest in the bounty of benefits reaped by Telangana is the upcoming world’s largest pharma cluster and India’s biggest medical devices hub. The investments promised during the just-concluded BioAsia 2020 are also significant.

If Telangana has an accumulated outstanding debt burden of 21.3 per cent of the gross state domestic product (GSDP), amounting to approximately Rs 2.02 lakh crore, people can see where the money has been spent.

Over Rs 1.20 lakh crore have gone into the largest lift irrigation project, Kaleshwaram. Huge sums are being spent on the ongoing Mission Bhagiratha, which promises to provide potable water to all households, and many other such programmes.

Buoyed by confidence from the victories in the local body and municipal elections, the TRS government is able to balance development and welfare to a large measure.

AP in stark contrast

In complete contrast, Andhra Pradesh reaped hardly any benefit from the World Economic Forum meets attended by former Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu. Naidu’s Davos visits ended as costly events that levied a burden on the state exchequer. The other events that Naidu attended ended no better.

N Chandrababu Naidu's visits to the World Economic Forum meetings have been a waste of money. (Photo: India Today)

The total investment promise made in the series of partnership summits run into several lakh crores, but what has translated into reality is nowhere near the boastful claims.

In 2017 alone, the state had announced that it had signed memorandums of understanding (MoU) with 665 companies with an expected investment of Rs 10.54 lakh crore and a potential to generate employment for 22.34 lakh people. In 2016, the state had signed 334 MoUs with an estimated investment of Rs 4.78 lakh crore to generate 10 lakh jobs. In 2018, the Andhra government had signed MoUs with 734 companies with an expected investment of Rs 4.40 lakh crore, which could generate employment for 11,02,215 people.

If all this were realised, Andhra would have been the richest state without a reason to look back and the MoUs in three years alone would have provided employment to 44 lakh people. Even if 20 per cent of these deals would have translated into reality, the state would have been buzzing with economic activity.

Not that nothing has happened during the period between 2014 and 2019. There have been some remarkable achievements like the proposal of HCL Technologies to invest Rs 750 crore for a development centre to create 7,500 jobs, TCL Electronics proposing a Rs 2,000 crore investment in Tirupati, establishment of $1.1 billion KIA Motors manufacturing unit in Anantapur district, which was recently rumoured to shift its factory to Tamil Nadu, but the company denied it, and construction of Millennium Towers in Visakhapatnam for housing IT companies.

Amaravati, a white elephant

The massive estimated outlay of Rs 4 lakh crore to Rs 5 lakh crore of government and private investment for the creation of a world-class state capital was always a tough ask on the state exchequer.

The huge sums invested into the ‘interims structures of secretariat, high court and assembly have also come under criticism.

Amaravati became a white elephant because of the policies of the TDP government's unrealistic planning. (Photo: Reuters)

The YSR Congress has cornered the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) over Amaravati because the previous government under the party made impractical promises and glossed over the realities facing it.

From land allotments to private institutions for a song, to leasing of lands to state institutions at exorbitant rents, to purchase of land in the proposed capital region during the TDP rule, have all come under scrutiny.

Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy said his government did not have the same luxury of funds that TDP had — Rs 1.09 lakh crore of state contribution to build a city.

Between 2014 and 2019, Naidu’s regime governed with a complete lack of vision and failed to use the opportunity to prove itself by building up the state after bifurcation.

Reverse tendering

Under Jagan, reverse tendering, calling for tenders seeking reduction of cost, for contracts that were already awarded, has gained traction. Jagan had repeatedly promised reverse tendering if he came to power.

While the YSR Congress regime is also determined to renegotiate the power-purchase agreements with private power companies, some TDP leaders, media houses and industrial houses are lobbying with the Union government to insulate the companies from the state’s moves, citing depleting investors’ confidence.

When land prices and petroleum prices would be decided by the market forces, that the price of electricity should be decided on the basis of a power purchase agreement, defies all logic. While the GSDP of Andhra is estimated to be Rs 10,80,657 crore, the outstanding debt burden on the state is estimated to be Rs 2.91 lakh crore.

The MoUs signed with some large corporate with regard to land allotments have been scrapped by the state government. A case in point is the Lulu Group that was supposed to build convention centre and mall in Visakhapatnam. The decision was taken on the ground that the companies have not started any work on the ground.

Similarly, Adani Group, which promised a data centre with an investment of Rs 70,000 crore investment, $11 billion, over 20 years in Visakhapatnam (interestingly the size of Adani Group itself is USD 13 billion currently), on being asked by the state government to credibly revise the plans with specific time frames, brought the investment down to Rs 3,000 crore in two years.

Finance Minister Buggana Rajendranath Reddy tore apart these policies in the Assembly, impaling the mismatch between the tall claims by the TDP regime and the ground reality. He charged the Chandrababu Naidu administration with skulduggery.

Three capitals

Against this background, Jaganmohan Reddy has come up with an idea of creating three capitals for the state of Andhra Pradesh – Amaravati as legislative capital, Kurnool as judicial capital, and Visakhapatnam as an administrative capital.

The opposition to the idea is coming only from a section of the TDP leaders and a few TDP friendly media houses. Even though TDP though this would lead to massive opposition across Andhra Pradesh, it hasn’t happened. The state, which chose to have the decision passed through legislative, hit a stumbling block in the Legislative Council.

Irked by this, the Jaganmohan Reddy government recommended the dissolution of the Legislative Council. The Assembly passed a resolution and the matter is lying with the Centre. Also, the decision has to clear judicial hurdles.

The YSR Congress is grappling with daily agitations, bitter political and media attacks besides delivering on administration and keeping its rank and file in good humour.

The Andhra government is meeting its political challenges in its own ways even as Telangana is set on the path of development.

Unfortunately, the Andhra government is being forced to pay the price for the legacy that was handed over to it.

 

dumb andhra people only want jagan’s free navarathnalu in their mouth

[bhaigan]

14 minutes ago, Agnes said:

I don't think even eenadu is writing articles about how TG ran away with Hyd.

because I've never seen my mom who reads eenadu make that argument. my uncles and aunts make it though, purely out of instinct. even when living in Hyd. lol.

every1 is just busy blaming Jagan for capital now. atleast in my neighbourhood. never seen such passion before. lol.

any attempt to explain why vizag is better seems futile.

atleast Vizag deserves to be capital

coming to Amaravati it is not futile , it is disaster

[trent]

lol, 90s lone bill clinton, bill gates ni hyd ki techadu cbn. ippudu pichai gadike sinchukuntunnada lafangi n langas

[Agnes]

Just now, bhaigan said:

TG formed 6 years back.

You cant blame TG for AP's non-performance, it's the leaders who did wrong negotiations being in the hallucination of united AP

I didn't blame TG asshole. I said TG separation is the reason.

I definitely do blame TG posters here for harping on this 'TG doing better than Andhra' theme though.

I consider all of them sociopaths, or insecure cunts.

There must be a limit on how many times anyone of a reasonable, decent and sane mind, can bring that up, without sounding like dciks.

TG is doing better than Andhra? duh!!! anyone with an IQ greater than 90 could've predicted that in 2014.  what's the point in repeating the same sh1t a million times. If Andhra could do better than TG without Hyd, TG would have happened much much sooner, duh!!!!

This is even worse than what I do on this db dunking on you guys. may  be not. may be what I do is worse. but thats not the point.

Only Halwa seems to have some self awareness about what he is doing. the rest of them think they are being rational. its pathetic.

[Agnes]

8 minutes ago, bhaigan said:

According to CBN's logic capital should be in center, the ruler who thought capital should be in center is tuglaq. Hence, CBN is considered as tuglaq

Does it is hating Andhra or CBN's faulty vision ?

you can parse a statement from a leader a 1000 different ways. especially political statement.

don't care what CBN said. he's not tuglag.

he was given a state with no revenue potential, and he did as best as he could. I disagree with what he did, but I don't blame him.

[kothavani]

3 minutes ago, trent said:

lol, 90s lone bill clinton, bill gates ni hyd ki techadu cbn. ippudu pichai gadike sinchukuntunnada lafangi n langas

then malli 2014 to 2019 lo enduku tele ?

[Agnes]

7 minutes ago, bhaigan said:

atleast Vizag deserves to be capital

coming to Amaravati it is not futile , it is disaster

This is the kind of geniuses that exist in society.

9 minutes ago, speedracer said:

dumb andhra people only want jagan’s free navarathnalu in their mouth

 

[kothavani]

5 minutes ago, Agnes said:

I didn't blame TG asshole. I said TG separation is the reason.

I definitely do blame TG posters here for harping on this 'TG doing better than Andhra' theme though.

I consider all of them sociopaths, or insecure cunts.

There must be a limit on how many times anyone of a reasonable, decent and sane mind, can bring that up, without sounding like dciks.

TG is doing better than Andhra? duh!!! anyone with an IQ greater than 90 could've predicted that in 2014.  what's the point in repeating the same sh1t a million times. If Andhra could do better than TG without Hyd, TG would have happened much much sooner, duh!!!!

This is even worse than what I do on this db dunking on you guys. may  be not. may be what I do is worse. but thats not the point.

Only Halwa seems to have some self awareness about what he is doing. the rest of them think they are being rational. its pathetic.

Halwa @Android__Halwa niku praise vachindi congrats 🤣

[Agnes]

12 minutes ago, bhaigan said:

According to CBN's logic capital should be in center, the ruler who thought capital should be in center is tuglaq. Hence, CBN is considered as tuglaq

Does it is hating Andhra or CBN's faulty vision ?

how dumb are u? most of them talk against Andhra/CBN because a lot of Andhra guys did the same for too long. that's the only reason. Not 'CBN faulty vision'. lol.

TG posters, if they were in the Andhra poster shoes back in 2014 would have made the exact same comments that Andhra posters made then.

it was evident on how many TG posters were spitting on recent RTC strike, with exactly the kind of neoliberal bullshit arguments.

exactly the kind of arguments Andhra posters made with regards to TG around 2014.

Its not CBN's faulty vision they hate. It is just chillara dcik waving competition.

[trent]

1 minute ago, kothavani said:

then malli 2014 to 2019 lo enduku tele ?

E sari capital ki Singapore gov tho pani padindi so Singapore govt amaravati vachindi , 

ippudu cheppu langas boss mukku em peekado apart from grown Hyd meda padi mekkadam tappa 

[kothavani]

3 minutes ago, trent said:

E sari capital ki Singapore gov tho pani padindi so Singapore govt amaravati vachindi , 

ippudu cheppu langas boss mukku em peekado apart from grown Hyd meda padi mekkadam tappa 

ehe cbn ki kcr ki comparision edni, kcr is pillakaya kani

Oho singapore valu vacharu kada us president enduku ani lite tisukunadu

[Vaampire]

19 minutes ago, speedracer said:

dumb andhra people only want jagan’s free navarathnalu in their mouth

Pasupu kumkuma free kadha?