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Telugu Desam Party (TDP) State president Palla Srinivasa Rao connected Sunday (February 01) said that the Union Budget 2026 is not simply a connection of accounts but a argumentation papers that charts India’s economical direction.
“With its integrated absorption connected greenish energy, semiconductors, biopharma, artificial intelligence, information centres, tourism and agriculture, the fund places Andhra Pradesh nether the enactment and semipermanent imaginativeness of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, astatine the centre of the country’s maturation narrative,” helium opined.
Highlighting the implications for Andhra Pradesh, Mr. Srinivasa Rao said that ₹12.2 lakh crore allocation for nationalist superior expenditure, on with proposals for caller freight corridors, enlargement of inland waterways and promotion of seaplane services, would importantly fortify the State’s logistics ecosystem and port-led maturation strategy.
The absorption connected the Visakhapatnam–Kakinada larboard corridor, aligns with Mr. Naidu’s long-standing imaginativeness of positioning A.P. arsenic a captious gateway for planetary and determination trade, peculiarly with Southeast Asia, helium added.
The allocation of ₹3,320 crore for the Polavaram irrigation task underlines the Centre’s designation of the project’s strategical importance, helium said.
Mr. Srinivasa Rao described the recognition of ‘A.P. arsenic a Rare Earth Minerals corridor’ arsenic a strategically important decision. The determination is expected to pull investments successful mining, processing, research, and worth addition, portion reducing India’s dependence connected captious imports.
The projected constitution of 3 chemic parks and the accent connected plug-and-play concern infrastructure, helium said, would further fortify Andhra Pradesh’s manufacturing ecosystem.
The allocation of ₹40,000 crore for electronics components manufacturing and the rollout of Semiconductor India Mission 2.0 are expected to payment established clusters specified arsenic Sri City, helium said. He besides added that ₹10,000 crore Bio-Pharma Shakti initiative, would accelerate India’s efforts to look arsenic a planetary biologics hub portion providing caller momentum to Visakhapatnam’s pharma and beingness sciences sector, a domain consistently prioritised by the Chief Minister.
The proposals to make eco-friendly upland circuits successful the Araku Valley and bird-watching trails astir Pulicat Lake bespeak a displacement towards sustainable tourism, balancing biology conservation with employment generation, helium said.
The Gajuwaka MLA besides said that successful the fisheries sector, the improvement of 500 reservoirs and strengthening of coastal worth chains would further consolidate A.P.’s presumption arsenic the country’s starring marine nutrient exporter. Allocations of ₹5,000 crore per metropolis implicit 5 years for City Economic Regions successful Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities are expected to alteration Vijayawada, Tirupati, and Visakhapatnam into determination maturation centres.
