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- YSR Congress party leader Jagan Mohan Reddy will be sworn-in as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on May 30, 2019 in Vijayawada.
- Jagan’s party had won 151 of 175 Assembly seats and 22 Lok Sabha seats out of 25 in Andhra Pradesh.
- He defeated incumbent CM Chandra Babu Naidu of Telugu Desam Party.
- He met PM Modi and requested him to accord Andhra Pradesh “Special Category Status”.
Special Category Status (SCS)
- The concept of SCS was first introduced in 1969 by the 5th Finance Commission.
- It sought to provide certain disadvantaged states preferential treatment in the form of central assistance and tax breaks.
- Initially, 3 states only Assam, Nagaland and Jammu & Kashmir were granted SCS.
- Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Sikkim, Tripura and Uttarakhand were later added.
- But the 14th Finance Commission scrapped the ‘special category’ status for states, except for the North Eastern and three hill states (J&K, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand).
- Instead, it recommended increased “tax devolution” from Union to States from 32% to 42%.
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