New Delhi: AP Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy urged Union Home Minister Amit Shah to grant a special category status to Andhra Pradesh. AP CM Jagan Mohan Reddy met Amit Shah at his office in New Delhi on Tuesday. He also reiterated his plea for early implementation of all provisions of the AP Re-Organisation act.

            As per the press note, AP CM Jagan Mohan Reddy explained the Union Home Minister Amit Shah, how the AP government saved Rs. 830 crores by opting in for reverse tendering of Polavaram project works, despite a series of central government advisories against it. Due to Amit Shah’s re-occupied with elections under way in Maharashtra and Haryana, where voting was held on Monday. YS Jagan Mohan Reddy cancelled all his appointment supposed to meet with other ministers and rushed to Vishakhapatnam.

         He explained to Amit Shah that water levels of Krishna River had dropped to 456 tmc from 1,230 tmc in past 52 years. Making comparisons, he said that almost 2,780 tmc of Godavari waters had been diverted into the ocean during the last three decades. Jagan Mohan Reddy exhorted the union government to issue orders to ensure that Godavari floodwater was supplied to Nagarjuna Sagar and Srisailam projects. This would go a long way in addressing water problems of Rayalaseema and the Krishna delta regions. The bifurcation had adverse effects on the size of the state’s industrial and service sectors, whose combined share of the SDGP had reduced from 76.2 per cent to 68.2 percent.