Centre tells YSRC, Andhra Pradesh is not ‘special’

Hyderabad: The Centre made it clear that Andhra Pradesh cannot be accorded special category status by any criteria specified by the Planning Commission. It added that at present no special package of industrial incentives can be considered for AP.

In reply to a letter written by YSR Congress president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy to the Prime Minister on the issue, deputy secretary of department of industrial policy and development Ashish Datta stated that the package was included in the Centre’s provisions for AP and the state does not fulfil any criteria for getting special status.