Andhra Pradesh budget 2019: Highlights

* Rs 6,455 crore has been set aside for prestigious Amma Vodi scheme, about 43 lakh mothers to get benefit from the scheme


* Rs 1,740 crore has been set aside for YSR Arogyasri scheme

* Rs 1500 crore has been allocated for improvement of infrastructure in government schools and Rs 1500 crore for improvement of infrastructure in hospitals

* Rs 475 crore has been allocated for providing power to aqua farmers at subsidised prices

* Rs 4,525 crore has been allocated for providing 9-hour free power to agriculture sector

* AP is the first state to set up market stabilisation fund, finance minister says

* Rs 3,000 crore has been set aside for market stabilisation fund, and Rs 2,000 crore for calamity assistance fund

* Rs 300 crore set aside for YSR BC Kalyana Kanuka

* Rs 404 crore has been se aside for YSR crop insurance scheme

* Rs 2,000 crore has been set aside for Kapu welfare

* Rs 700 crore has been allocated to village secretariats

* Rs 648 crore has been set aside for urban self-help group loans

* YSR Bharosa to be extended to all tenant farmers in Andhra Pradesh

* Rs 260 crore has been allocated for Andhra road development corporation

* Rs 1,140 crore has been set aside for payment of interest free loans to self-help group women

* Fiscal deficit stands at Rs 35,000 crore

* Rs 8,994 crore has been st aside for payment of interests on debts

* The size of the budget is Rs 2,27,474 crore

* Andhra's revenue deficit: Rs 1778 crore, it is 3.3 per cent of GSDP

* We are still hopeful of achieving Special Category Status (SCS) to AP: Finance minister

* Government schemes to be extended to all sections of people irrespective of their political affiliations: Buggana

* Implementation of poll promises is high on our priority: Finance minister Buggana Rajendranath Reddy

* Minister Botsa Satyanarayana to present agriculture budget after the presentation of annual budget

* Andhra Pradesh finance minister Buggana Rajendranath Reddy presents the budget for financial year 2019-20.

* Buggana Rajendranath on Wednesday released a white paper on the state's financial condition.

* Corruption and inappropriate allocation of funds by the previous government have pushed the state into a revenue debt to the tune of Rs 3.62 lakh crores.