Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu is concentrating on External Aid Projects (EAP) including World Bank projects.
In addition to the ongoing EAP projects, the government has asked all departments to prepare as many new projects as possible which can be taken up with External Aid in the hope that the Centre will announce a special status category.
Under this category, the Centre will give funds as 90 per cent grant to all the projects. If not, the government will take up only some projects. Government chief secretary I.Y.R. Krishna Rao had a meeting on Wednesday with all the secretaries and also briefed them about the various steps to be taken up by all the departments.
There are many ongoing Exter-nally Aided projects in both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. In the united state, government has taken up road sector project with '3,165 crore of assistance from World Bank. After the state bifurcation, Andhra Pradesh will get Rs 2,245 crore and Telangana will get Rs 920 crore. With Rs 2.40 lakh crore of World Bank assistance, the government has taken up various projects for the reduction of poverty in the present financial year.
The major sectors covered in the project are agriculture, fishing, and forestry, public administration, law and justice, information and communications, education, finance, and health and other social services, energy and mining, transportation, water, sanitation and flood protection, industry and trade.
There are many ongoing projects at the cost of more than Rs 10 thousand crore funded by World Bank. The Externally Aided Projects have funding by World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Department for International Development (DFID), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Canada International Development Agency (CIDA).
