YS Jagan Mohan Reddy continues sops spree in New Year

Hyderabad: The sops spree continues in Andhra Pradesh in the New Year as Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy rolled out a slew of welfare measures. After announcing several programs during the last seven months to implement his poll promises, Jagan Mohan Reddy launched more schemes as a New Year gift to people.

The new schemes bring cheers to people ahead of ‘Sankranti’, a major festival even as state capital Amaravati continues to simmer over the ongoing protest by farmers against his three-capital proposal. Leaders across the political spectrum and people in north coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions have a hailed proposal to develop Visakhapatnam and Kurnool as two other state capitals while the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) government announced new sops to win more sections. The New Year brought cheers for the employees of Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) as the transport entity was merged with the government.

Implementing the poll promise, Jagan merged RTC with the government, thus recognizing its over 51,000 employees as the government employees.

Fulfilling a major poll promise, the Jagan government on January 4 issued an order for implementing of ‘Jagananna Amma Vodi’ scheme under which all the mothers or the guardians sending their children to school will get Rs 15,000 financial assistance every year. The YSRCP government hopes this scheme, to be launched on January 9, will increase the number of school-going students in the state, enhance the quality of education and provide education for all. The financial assistance of Rs 15,000 would be directly deposited in the beneficiaries' savings bank accounts of the mothers or the guardian in January every year until the child completes class 12. (IANS)

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