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1. People could dial 1100 to register complaints about government services and schemes, which
will be escalated to the department concerned in realtime for redressal.
2. The total number of grievances that were received as part of the initiative stood at 19617.
3. Letter of Award to the Singapore Consortium for the development of 1691 acres start up area
adjacent to the Government Core area of 900 acres will kickstart the economy of Amaravati.
4. Government of Andhra Pradesh and Singapore government signed a memorandum of
understanding on May 15 to develop 6.84 km start up area in Amaravati. Singapore-based
Ascendas- Singbridge Pvt Ltd and Sembcorp Development Ltd were awarded Rs528 crore
project by the government of AP to act as the master developer for a start-up area, spanning
1,691 acres, to be built in the upcoming capital city of Amaravati.(start up area would be
developed on Swiss challenge system )
5. equity participation in ADP will be Rs306 crore (58%) by the Singapore consortium and Rs222
crore (42%) by ADC
6. set up a Commission on the issue (kapu agitation to add them in BC community) with former
Karnataka High Court Judge K.L. Manjunatha as its head.
7. MicroSoft organized a technical session `Future Decoded in Mumbai .
8. CM came out with 7 Missions, 5 Campaigns and 5 Grids to take Andhra Pradesh towards a
double-digit growth.
9. Andhra Pradesh as one of the three top States in the country by 2022, the best in India by 2029
and a world class State by the year 2050.
10. Andhra Pradesh is ranked 72nd in the World Happiness Index.(aspects like mental health,
physical health, utilization of time, education, good governance, social development in villages,
diversity in culture, overcoming problems, environment, life stands etc. were taken into
consideration to assess the happiness levels of the people in a state)
11. Andhra Pradesh has emerged 72nd with a score of 5,368 compared to India which is placed
122 among 155 countries in the study undertaken for the 2017 World Happiness Report.
12. In spite of severe financial crunch, the State Government not only spent Rs.11,076 crore so far
on loan waiver so far, but also allocated Rs.3,500 crore for the purpose in the latest budget
which was deposited in 55 lakh farmers accounts.(23.46 lakh farmers who had loans below
Rs.50,000 became debt-free with as much as Rs.4,456 crore credited to their bank accounts at
one go. Though not a poll promise, Rs.384.47 crore were also provided as assistance to
horticulturists for clearing their loans)
13. special agricultural budget, with estimates at Rs.18,214 crore.
14. Rs.25 crore for organic farming.
15. Set itself a target of producing 185.66 lakh metric tons of food grains in the year 2016- 17, and
achieved the mark.
16. Five lakh agricultural remote pump sets were distributed free of cost to farmers.
17. Andhra Pradesh tops in fisheries and shrimp production in the country. Andhra Pradesh account
for 44 per cent of the exports of marine products valued at Rs.13,500 crore out of the
total exports of Rs.30,420 crore from India.
18. NTR Bharosa scheme : financial assistance to as many as 45 lakh destitute and poor people.
19. The Oldage, Widow and Weavers pension amounts were increased five-fold from Rs.200 a
month to Rs.1,000 and that of differently abled from Rs.500 to Rs.1,500 a month from October
2, 2017.
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20. First Feminist CM : National Womens Parliament in Vijayawada recently, the Times of India
Consultant Editor Sagarika Ghosh described Chandrababu Naidu as the first Feminist Chief
Minister of the country.
21. Silent revolution of DWCRA women : At present there are 89.78 lakh members in 8.8 lakh self-
help groups in DWCRA which is creating a silent revolution.
22. Government provided an assistance of Rs.3,760 crore in 2015-16 to enable the SHGs mobilize
Rs.10,298 crore as capital.(mobilised Rs.12,288 crore as bank loans)
23. Chandranna Cheyuta Scheme, Rs.1600 crore was allocated to them in 2017-18 budget for
capital infusion. There are 6,67,362 SHGs in rural areas and 1,60,758 SHGs in urban areas. As
many as 82,13,281 women belonging to these groups were provided assistance of Rs.4,971.94
crore as a welfare measure.(DWCRA women were also given 1800 PC tablets)
24. During the last Godavari Pushkarams, DWCRA women could sell their products worth Rs.3
crore.
25. Backward Classes to the fore : budgetary allocations were increased by 31.5 per cent over the
previous year 2015-16 by sanctioning Rs.8,832 crore during 2016-17 for backward classes
welfare.
26. Ambedkar statue at Amaravati : 125-foot statue
27. Rs.20 crore was spent on providing training in skill development for 10,000 unemployed SC
youth and 315 SC candidates appearing for civil services examinations were imparted training
by spending Rs.5.07 crore last year alone.
28. allocations for tribal welfare were increased by 16.12 per cent over last year with Rs.1815.33
crore in the current year.
29. State Government won the national award for spending Rs.4,424 crore in 2015-16 under the
MGNREGS Under this scheme, 60 lakh workers belonging to 35 lakh families in 13,099 villages
had benefited. This year, the budgetary allocations under this head are increased to Rs.6,562
crore.
30. State Government could reduce the infant mortality rate from 41 to 35 and delivery deaths
from 100 to 87.
31. special call centre has been set up for providing emergency services to pregnant women and
infants and round-the-clock services provided on toll free no. 102 to extend medical services.
32. SriCity was developed in Satyavedu and a helping hand is extended to all classes of labourers.
33. CII Partnership Summit held in Visakhapatnam saw Rs.6 lakh crore investments in the first year
and another Rs.10.54 lakh crore investments in the second year,.
34. Budgetary allocation for Education this year is Rs.21,108 crore which is Rs.1,454 crore
more accounting for 8.8 rise over the previous year.
35. CM was conferred with an esteemed award- "Transformative Chief Minister" by US-India
Business Council (USIBC) West Coast Summit in Silicon Valley.
36. Astro Teller, CEO of Google X.
37. Apple's Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams.
38. memorandum of cooperation was signed between Government of Andhra Pradesh and Iowa
Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, State of Iowa to promote research and
development in the fields of science, agriculture and life sciences.
39. Kenneth M. Quinn, President of the World Food Prize Foundation.
40. SDMA made Andhra Pradesh the first state in India being able to predict thunderbolts 30
minutes before their occurrence.(SDMA was equipped with an app- Vajrapath, developed by a
group of five girls from Kuppam Engineering College.)
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41. AP ranked third in the world based on its market size. The Global Competitiveness Report (GCR)
2016- 17, which was released in September, 2016.
42. Jalavani : Call Center that is aimed at solving problems of drinking water supply.

call made to the center will be recorded in Real Time Alert Management System (RTMS) and will
then be forwarded to N Lokeshs mobile phone.
Andhra Pradesh has got 72nd place in the World Happiness Index 2017, while India has ranked
122 among 155 countries. As far as Andhra Pradesh is concerned, its happiness score is 5,368.
app- Plantix : allows one to identify the variety of pest affecting the crop, at the District
Collectors Conference in Vijayawada (identifies crop- affecting pest through artificial
intelligence, just by clicking a photo of the infected area of the leaf/crop)
This revolutionary app can be accessed in Telugu language and covers nutrient deficiencies of
17 kinds of crops.
Geographical Indication (GI) tag to the King of fruits, Banaganapalle Benisan - Bainganpalli
variety of Mango
Banaganapalle was the Capital of the Princely State of the same name between 1790 and 1948.
A landlord from Panyam developed the breed, knowing the craze of the Nawab Mir Gulam Ali
Khan (1905 - 1922) for mangoes, passed it on to Nawab,(this variety of mango is known is also
known by names such as - Benisan, Banishana, Chappatai and Safeda. )
GI Tag for 100 years of Sweetness --> Following an application from AP Horticultural
Commissioner, O P Gupta, the Registrar of GI. Registry, Chennai, accorded the registration..
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two of its cities finished in the top ten and eight of its 32 urban local bodies (ULBs) ranked
among the top 50 clean cities of the country in the Swachh Survekshan 2017 contest.
16 ULBs from the State found place in the list of top 100 cities which makes Andhra Pradesh the
third State with highest number of top ranking clean cities or towns in the country.
( Visakhapatnam was ranked third in the country, followed by Tirupati standing ninth and
Vijayawada at 19. ) Indias cleanest city in the category of 2 lakh to 10 lakh population.
criteria considered for the ranking was solid waste management, citizens feedback, and
independent observation by the Quality Council of India.
Visakhapatnams aggregate of mark was 1,797 out of 2,000.
six Andhra Pradesh youths who literally reached the top of the world on May 13 by climbing the
Mount Everest had one thing in common - they all had the rock-like resolve to overcome their
humble roots and modest means to succeed.
veteran Telugu Filmmaker Dasari Passes Away : Limca Book of World Records as a renowned
director who had directed the largest number of films. earned the title of Darsaka Ratna for his
direction. Tata Manavadu was his first film.
Andhra Pradesh Legislature recently passed a Bill to appoint Olympics silver medal winning
shuttler PV Sindhu as a Group-1 officer in the government, by amending the state public
services Act. Certain provisions in the Andhra Pradesh (Regulation of Appointments to Public
Services and Rationalization of Staff Pattern and Pay Structure) Act, 1994.give effect to the
Cabinet resolution, the government decided to amend section 4 of the aforementioned law to
enable appointment of Sindhu directly in the cadre of a revenue divisional officer.
Andhra Pradesh Information and Technology Minister Nara Lokesh formally handed over the
bunch of permissions
to set up R&D facilities, IT services and skill development centre in Vijayawada to HCL
Technologies founder and Chairman Shiv Nadar.
Justice V Ramasubramanian was appointed as Chairman of Andhra Pradesh Real Estate
Regulation and Development Authority.
state government is mulling over developing MSME (micro, small and medium enterprises)
parks in every Assembly constituency in order to widen the scope of providing employment to
the youth of the state.
Kode Durgaprasad, an Indian Police Service of the 1981 batch was appointed as advisor to the
Ministry of Home department.
Anil Kumar Singhal, a 1993 bath IAS officer, was appointed as the new Executive Officer (EO) of
Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams
Ronanki Gopalakrishna (29) of Srikakulam made Andhra Pradesh proud by securing the all-India
third rank in the Civil Services examination.