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YSR releases `true report' on progress

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD Jan. 4. Disputing the claims made by the Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, in the progress reports on vital sectors, the former CLP leader, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, has said that the State failed on all fronts, including agriculture, industry, economy and human development index growth rate.

Releasing `the true report of progress in the State' at a press conference here on Sunday, he criticised the Chief Minister for spending `thousands of crores of rupees' on advertising himself and said that it was no wonder that the Principal Accountant-General of Andhra Pradesh, a constitutional authority, had submitted to the 12th Finance Commission that the State had become `bankrupt' and `insolvent.' "I am ready for a debate with Telugu Desam leaders on these issues," he added.

Charging Mr. Naidu with driving the State into an `irretrievable debt trap,' he said all that the Chief Minister had done during the last eight years was to add Rs.57,000 crores as additional liability to the State and beautify Hyderabad city and a few other urban centres. He asked whether Mr. Naidu could talk of having implemented one major irrigation project like Nagarjunasagar or having brought at least one major private sector or public sector project like BHEL that were implemented during the previous Congress regime.

Quoting from official documents, he said that the GSDP growth rate during the last eight years, taken together at constant rates, had been lower at 5.07 per cent compared to the national average of 6.13 per cent, while it was 6.43 per cent when compared to the national average of 5.68 per cent during 1980-91. " Similarly during the last eight years, the growth in per capita income of the State was 3.9 per cent as against the national average of 4.2 per cent," he said.

He said the decline in GSDP growth rate was clear evidence that far from gaining from reforms, the State had suffered heavily. "This is not the mistake of reforms, but it is the mistake of the Government not to have carried reforms in agriculture where 75 per cent of the State's workforce is employed." The faulty vision and lopsided economic policies, which were inconsistent with the priorities and resources of the State, were responsible for such a dismal performance.

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