AP Report 2019-final

Status Report - Union’s Commitment to Andhra Pradesh
Special Development Package to Seven Districts of AP: Bundelkhand Pattern
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Rs. 35,000 Crore at current prices
adjusting for population and Budget
Multiplier (Table 5.5). If, however, the
adjustment is made for population and
5% inflation, then the grant to backward
regions of Andhra Pradesh on par with
Bundelkhand Package will be of the
order of Rs. 25,000 Crore. This number
would be much higher when adjusted
to the overall budgetary increases, or
inflation in the interregnum period.
In the case of Bundelkhand Development Package,
the Union Government allocated an amount of
Rs. 7,266 Crore for a three-year period of 2009-12.
Subsequently, in the period 2012-17, a further
Backward Regions Grant Fund of Rs. 4,400 Crore
was allotted to Bundelkhand. Thus a total of
Rs. 11,666 Crore was given as special grant for the
development of Bundelkhand region. This translates
into a per capita grant of Rs. 6,374 for a populationof
1.83 Crore in the 13 districts of Bundelkhand in Uttar
Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh States. The total
population of backward areas of Andhra Pradesh is
2.52 Crore. If a per capita grant similar to
Bundelkhand package at 2009 prices is made to the
seven backward districts of North Coastal Andhra
and Rayalaseema (including Markapur division of
Prakasam district, which forms part of Rayalaseema),
the grant should be of the order of
Vide Government of Andhra Pradesh
letter dated 16 October 2014, the State
sought Special Development
Assistance for its backward areas
particularly Rayalaseema and North
Coastal Regions for an amount of
Rs. 24,350 Crore over a period of five
years (2014-15 to 2018-19). The
assistance sought is thus roughly
comparable to Bundelkhand Package
when adjusted to inflation and
population.
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