Arun Jaitley’s maiden budget speech in Parliament yesterday had no mention of any commitment on financial package and special category status to Andhra Pradesh state.Andhra Pradesh bagged an agricultural university, AIIMS, IIT, National Academy for Customs & Excise at Hindupur, promise of development of 20 new industrial clusters along the Vizag-Chennai corridor and hardware cluster in Kakinada region.
Jaitley only made a passing mention of his government’s commitment to address issues relating to development of AP and T in the AP Reorganization Act, 2014.