in the SEZs is being used as private
estates by the owners. 90% of the
land assigned to the SEZs is
vacant. Even though Chandra
Babu government is reciting
Industry and allocated thousands
of crores worth of land to the SEZs,
nothing concrete or beneficial
resulted from it. It is clear that
industry development won’t
happen by spending hundreds of
crores on trips to Davos (WEF) or
organizing partnership summits at
Visakhapatnam.
Destruction of Small scale
Industry
Micro, small and medium
enterprises (MSMEs) which are
already on the decline due to
competition from the comprador,
monopoly companies, got the final
blow through the implementation of
GST. By protecting the small and
medium enterprises we can sustain
the local markets, provide
employment to the workers and get
markets for the rural handicrafts.
International capital and
comprador monopoly capitalist
forces are hindering national
capital,
agriculture
based
industries, small and medium
enterprises from sustaining and
expanding. Our experience shows
that without a political will to
counter the monopoly forces,
industry and commerce in any
country cannot be developed. The
policies that protect the national
capital will alone lead to the
development of local (national)
markets, improve the purchasing
power of our people and there by
industrial development.
The Peasantry and Work force
has to unite with the patriotic,
democratic, revolutionary forces to
fight against the forces of feudal,
comprador capital and inter-
national capital which are sucking
our blood and flesh, by ruining our
agricultural and industrial sectors.
This is the present task before us
April, May - 2019
Education
Education from primary to the
higher education is put on the altar
of privatisation. The primary and
secondary schools run by the
government are made to languish
without the basic necessities not to
talk of amenities. Thus even the
poor people are forced to send
children to the private schools
paying exorbitant fees. While the
number of universities is being
increased they are not being
provided even with teaching staff.
Even the prestigious old
universities like Andhra University
are facing financial problems. While
the privatisation is being placated
as symbol of high standards in
technical education, the reverse is
the fact of the life. Hundreds of
engineering colleges and medical
colleges have sprouted up all
around the state with the state
patronage of fee reimbursement
scheme. While the basic sciences
and humanities finds no students,
technical graduates are competing
for the jobs like ateenders in banks
and police constables. The entire
education system has been turned
into a profit making industry for
private market forces while the
youth facing unemployment and
society cannot fulfil its needs.
Health
It is the responsibility of the govt
to protect the health of all the
people and to provide medical
facilities to them. Instead, the
government completely gave up its
responsibility. Though the facilities
in govt hospitals are meagre,
people are rushing in queues
because they are the only
affordable sources of treatment for
the majority of the people. The
amount of money spent from the
patients pockets became a
measure for the amount of
treatment they receive. The state
government says it used to spend
Rs.5770 per head but has now
reduced it by 90%. It says, it has
provided treatment to 12 lakh
people through Aarogyasri in 4
years, incurring 5330 crores. More
than 80% of Aarogyasri cases are
handled by private corporate
hospitals means more than 80% of
Aarogyasri budget is flowing into
the hands of private players. Even
employee EHS services are
diverted to private hospitals. The
result is, whenever the government
delays clearing their dues (often
goes upto 500 crores), they stop
providing treatment to the people.
i.e. their medical services now
became uncertain.
Economy of the State
It became a chorus song for the
TDP and its leaders that the state
is facing financial problems due to
bifurcation. But they never
bothered to overcome these
problems by solving them in
consultation with the centre and
Telangana state as the ruling elites
at the centre and in both telugu
states are interested only in raking
up regional sentiments to hide the
real situation from the people.
Under this pretext, the government
of AP is imposing taxes on the
people. Before the GST, the
commercial tax collections are
around Rs. 10,000 crore. During
the current year, the GST
collections from the state have
rising to above the Rs.49,000
crore. Similarly, the revenue from
liquor has increased from
Rs.11,482 crore in 2014-15 to
Rs.17,212 crore, an increase of
about Rs.6000 crore. Likewise, the
revenue from sales tax on
petroleum products has risen from
Rs. 3250 crore in 2014-15 to Rs
6586 crore in 2017-18. Thus the
tax revenues of the state has
increased form Rs.39,907 on
2014-15 to Rs. 65,535 crore in
2018-19. This means that an extra
tax burden of around Rs. 14,000
was placed on every person in the
state after the bifurcation.
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