Nirmala Sitharaman on Budget 2024 for AP: రాష్ట్రం అభివృద్ధికి కట్టుబడి ఉన్నామని ఆర్థిక మంత్రి నిర్మలా సీతారామన్ మరోసారి తెలిపారు. పోలవరానికి ఎంత ఖర్చయినా.. ఎలా తెచ్చినా కేంద్రానిదే బాధ్యతని, కేంద్రం అంగీకరించిన మేరకు అన్ని నిధులు అందించి తీరుతామని స్పష్టం చేశారు. రాజధాని నిర్మాణానికి కేంద్రం పూర్తిగా కట్టుబడి ఉందని తెలిపారు.
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00:00Ma'am, this is Arun from ETV.
00:03Can I ask a question in Telugu?
00:05Ma'am, you have announced 15,000 crores for Amaravathi and 15,000 crores for the Polavaram
00:10project.
00:11So, will the government grant 15,000 crores or will they give it as a loan?
00:17Secondly, you have announced for the Polavaram project and you have said that you will give
00:22full support for the Polavaram project.
00:23How much will you give?
00:24The Polavaram project is a national project, so it will be on the central government.
00:38Most national projects, when you say national project, it will be implemented by the central
00:45government.
00:47But here, the Andhra Pradesh government is implementing the national project.
00:53We agreed to that condition in 2014.
00:58According to that, how much will be the rehabilitation, how much will be the cost, how much will be
01:09the debenture for the villagers?
01:11How much will be the amount they will have to pay?
01:14Will they have to pay the relief rehabilitation for their act of 2013?
01:19All these details, after agreeing to that condition, the government took an approval from the cabinet.
01:25The approval was for the construction of the Polavaram dam.
01:30After that, when we started the construction, we slowly came to a height and then we gave it to the villages below, but did not give it to the villages above.
01:42Like this, new issues started coming up.
01:45So, what I have to tell you is that we will give the government as much money as it has to give for all the conditions that have been agreed so far.
01:56Even now, some new problems have come up.
02:00I did not go into that detail.
02:02But it is a national project.
02:04We have agreed that the central government has agreed that it is a project of its own.
02:10So, we have to do as much as we can to complete it.
02:14After that, whether it is a grant or not, the central government is taking money from multilateral banks.
02:22When it comes to a national project, the cost is ours, right?
02:26So, there is no obligation to ask for a grant.
02:30We have been giving as much as the cabinet has approved so far.
02:36In fact, everything was cleared in the amount that the cabinet approved for the first time.
02:41I am not telling you the exact amount now, but everything has been cleared.
02:44There is a little bit left.
02:46But from now on, I am not going to talk about how much the government has agreed to go to that height.
02:57In total, we will talk to them about how much it will cost to overcome the difficulties in it and complete it today.
03:06Our statement is that we will give full support to it.
03:09Amaravathi Capital Construction.
03:12Because under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act, there is an act to help the central government to build state capital.
03:24So, to build up Amaravathi as a capital city, we definitely need to provide assistance to them.
03:31We are providing them with Rs. 15,000 crores of World Bank assistance.
03:37There is also counterpart funding for that.
03:40But how is the state position today?
03:43How will they give it? Can't they give it?
03:46Will we get a grant from the central government?
03:48We will talk to them about all these things.
03:50Because, without that capital, 10 years have passed.
03:54There should be a capital for Andhra Pradesh.
03:56If there is a state in India without capital, that is Andhra.
04:00According to the act, that capital should be there.
04:04I am not going into the details of who did it and who didn't.
04:07The central government is fully committed to building that capital.