The Andhra Pradesh government has decided to commence its assembly budget sessions from March 6 and the Finance Minister Yanamala Ramakrishnudu said the budget will be presented on March 13.
Yanamala, who is also legislative affairs minister, said that the session will be conducted up to March 28. He said that exact period of budget session will be decided at the Business Advisory Committee meeting. The government skipped the winter session of the Legislature in December as the new building has not been completed by the promised time.
As the new assembly complex is nearing completion. Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu is planning to get President or Prime Minister for inauguration of the same.
Meanwhile, giving final touches to the budget proposals, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has advised senior officials in the finance department that it should be performance oriented. Expressing satisfaction that the government is able to come over difficulties in mobilisation and diversion of resources, he said that the same spirit should be continued to make the state at the top in the country with regard to development, in four years.
Chief Minister said that he will have detailed exercise on allocations of resources to priority areas, during next two days. Stating that after last two budgets, the government is able to achieve commendable progress in growth, he said that the next budget should be focused on industrial growth. He has indicated that this year Rs 7,500 would be spend on MGNREGS, for which an awareness workshop would be conducted.
Chandrababu Naidu said that he is expecting the Central Cabinet will soon consider and approve the proposal to accord statutory backing to special package promised to the State in lieu of Special Category Status (SCS). In fact, Chandrababu Naidu has been bringing pressure on the Centre for according legal sanctity to package in the wake of the onslaught from Opposition that he had compromised on SCS though it had been guaranteed by the UPA II before it demitted office in 2014.
