{"id":325,"date":"2016-08-07T10:41:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T10:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=325"},"modified":"2016-08-07T10:41:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T10:41:16","slug":"9-states-want-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/9-states-want-status\/","title":{"rendered":"9 states want status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine other states have demanded the &#8220;Special Category State&#8221; status from the Centre and supported Andhra Pradesh&#8217;s request in this regard, Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu has said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the discussion in Parliament on special status for AP, nine states supported it. But they also wanted special status, saying theirs was also a just case. Chief Ministers of some of these states have written to the Centre in this regard,&#8221; Naidu said at a press conference at his family&#8217;s Swarna Bharat Trust in Atukuru village near Vijayawada <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Sunday<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said the special status &#8220;is not a panacea&#8221;. He, however, did not give names of the nine other states that have raised the demand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are certain benefits that come with the special status, no doubt.\u00a0 But special status is not a Sanjeevani, not a panacea,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0On the grant of special status to AP, the Union Minister said a dilemma had arisen following the recommendations of the 14th Finance Commission.<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The Prime Minister told the (AP) Chief Minister about this, but the latter wanted a decision taken on the special status at the earliest,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Finance Commission has come out with some proposals to bridge the revenue deficit of AP due to the bifurcation. The Centre is examining them and a decision would be taken expeditiously, Naidu said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine other states have demanded the &#8220;Special Category State&#8221; status from the Centre and supported Andhra Pradesh&#8217;s request in this regard, Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu has said. &#8220;During the discussion in Parliament on special status for AP, nine states supported it. But they also wanted special status, saying theirs was also a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[340,40,339,338],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-nine-states","tag-parliament","tag-special-status","tag-venkaiah-nayidu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}