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Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) vice-president Kolanukonda Shivaji connected Thursday slammed the State authorities for allegedly splurging wealth connected the two-day CII Partnership Summit-2025 astatine Visakhapatnam.
In a statement, the Congress person questioned the ‘rationale’ down spending lavishly connected specified events erstwhile the State’s fiscal information was already successful deficit. Citing the usage of 3 helicopters and overseas trips by the Chief Minister and his Cabinet colleagues, helium said these expenditures would payment lone lawsuit managers and not the State treasury oregon the public.
He said that successful the past too, the YSRCP, with Jagan Mohan Reddy astatine its helm, had organised akin concern summits wherever radical showed up successful suits and ties and astir of the enactment revolved astir lavish lunches and acquisition exchanges. Mr. Shivaji said the Congress enactment was opposed to specified superficial events which did not guarantee immoderate payment for the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes.
The APCC person pointed retired that the State fund stood astatine ₹3.5 lakh crore. He said that by gathering 17 aesculapian colleges and spending astir ₹6,000 crore nether the government’s management, the State could connection aesculapian acquisition for conscionable ₹4.5 lakh per student. However, owed to privatisation, each spot would present outgo astir ₹2 crore. “By investing ₹2,500 crore per twelvemonth for 3 years, the authorities could person ensured employment for astir 20,000 radical annually, with each doc supervising astatine slightest 10 unit members.
The Congress person said that portion immense concessions were offered to backstage entities, government-run aesculapian institutions similar Guntur Government Hospital and the aesculapian assemblage supply exemplary services. He said that alternatively of focussing lone connected constitution of AI information centres and conducting concern summits that service lone firm interests, the authorities should initiate measures that would payment the communal man.
