YSRCP chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Saturday released his party's manifesto for the upcoming elections and promised to gradually hike welfare pensions from Rs 3,000 to Rs 3,500 per month and govern the state from Visakhapatnam.
The chief minister noted that welfare pensions, which are currently at Rs 3,000 per month, will be raised to Rs 3,250 from January 2028 and subsequently to Rs 3,500 from January 2029.
YSRCP chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Saturday released his party's manifesto for the upcoming elections and promised to gradually hike welfare pensions from Rs 3,000 to Rs 3,500 per month and govern the state from Visakhapatnam.
The chief minister noted that welfare pensions, which are currently at Rs 3,000 per month, will be raised to Rs 3,250 from January 2028 and subsequently to Rs 3,500 from January 2029.
According to the party chief, immediately after YSRCP forms the government in 2024, Visakhapatnam will be made the executive capital and the seat of the government. It will be developed as the growth engine of the state while Amaravati will be developed as the legislative capital and Kurnool as the judicial capital.
Creation of special panchayats for Dalits who account for 50 percent population of a village or 500 households is a new scheme introduced in the manifesto today.
Supply of pure uncontaminated drinking water to every household, repair and develop road infrastructure, and develop industrial parks in every district under a Public Private Partnership (PPP) model.
In Godavari districts, resolving issues of aquaculture ponds' water contaminating other regular water bodies.
Other initiatives include the allocation of Rs 2,000 crore in the first phase to develop district headquarters as smart cities by laying roads, building parks, drainage and other necessary amenities.
MSMEs, which received two incentives in the past five years, will receive them on an annual basis, said Reddy, promising a life insurance of Rs 5 lakh to gig workers in organisations such as Swiggy, Zomato, Amazon and others under YSR Jeevan Bhima scheme.
Construction of 17 medical colleges, four ports, 10 fishing harbours, six fish landing centres, aqua university, law university, Dr Abdul Haq University, tribal engineering college and tribal university will be completed in the next five years.
Steps would be taken to fill 3,295 teaching posts in 18 universities, overcoming the court cases.
Continuation of almost all the schemes introduced in the past five years, Reddy said he would also raise the financial outlay for some schemes such as Amma Vodi, which has been hiked from Rs 15,000 per annum to Rs 17,000. Amma Vodi is a financial aid scheme for mothers who send their children to school.
YSR Rythu Bharosa scheme, which benefits farmers, would be hiked from Rs 13,500 to Rs 16,000 per annum, guaranteeing a financial assistance of Rs 80,000 over the next five years.
Continuation of all the direct benefit transfer (DBT) schemes such as YSR Cheyutha, YSR Kapu Nestham, YSR EBC Nestham, YSR Asara, YSR Kalyanamasthu- Shaadi Thofa, Vahana Mitra, YSR Law Nestham and others.