Andhra Pradesh in Debt Trap... 'debt, debt and only debt...'?
Contractors are not coming forward even though the government has called for tenders to repair the roads. They are demanding to be billed before the work is done so far.
Government employees are angry that the pay revision has not been implemented for two and a half years. They are demanding that the PRC be implemented immediately.
A senior official commented that thousands of crores of rupees were being borrowed and spent on cash transfer schemes when there was no money for salaries.
From the establishment of a non-banking financial institution under the name of ap State Financial Corporation .. Some of these are amendments to the FRBM Act.
Why did andhra pradesh go into such dire straits? What is the actual state of the economy now? What do government revenue and expenditure figures say? How is the debt burden increasing? What's actually going on?