Andhra Pradesh government presents Rs 2.24 lakh crore budget for FY 2020-21

HYDERABAD: The YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government on Tuesday presented its second budget since coming to power last May, amid protests and boycotts by the principal opposition Telugu Desam Party against what it called the ‘undemocratic and autocratic’ regime and filing of false cases against Opposition leaders.

Andhra Pradesh became the first Indian state to convene its Legislative Assembly and Council - which will adopt a Rs 2.24 lakh crore budget for 2020-21 - amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

The state government, which could not hold a regular budget session owing to the nationwide lockdown earlier, had obtained approval for a three-month budget of Rs 71,000 crore for the April-June period through an Ordinance in the last week of March.


Adequate social distancing measures were put in place for lawmakers to attend the session, even as Governor Biswabhusan Harichandan addressed the Assembly through video conference, another first for the country.

The budget estimates represent a marginal decrease of 1.4 % over 2019-20, which the government attributed to the continued economic slowdown due to the pandemic.