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Government Programmes + Cadre Meetings: Who Is Paying?

Recently, whenever the CM and IT Minister travel to different places for government programmes such as pension distribution, inaugurations, etc they are also holding meetings with their party cadre during the same visits.

Who is paying for these cadre meetings?

If the meetings are political party programmes, are the TDP or the leaders themselves bearing the expenses? Or are any of the costs, like venue, arrangements, travel, publicity, etc., being paid from government funds?

There is nothing wrong with a political party conducting meetings with its cadre. But when a government programme and a party meeting happen during the same visit, it should be clear which expenses are official government expenditure and which are party expenditure.

Can the government or the party make this information public and clarify who is funding these meetings?

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u/No-Bid-932 — 12 days ago

Global Horticulture Hub and Indian School of Agriculture announced at Madanapalle

At the event in Madanapalle, there were many reels and stories about tidbits from Anant Ambani's speech than what the event was about and what is in it. So, I went digging a bit and here is some information about it.

The event was to announce a "Global" Horticulture Hub and Indian School of Agriculture to come up in Madapalle.

Apparently, the plan is to attract about a total ₹1 Lakh crore investment into this. What is interesting is ₹40,000 Cr off the ₹1Lakh Cr is being pledged by the Central government and ₹60,000 Cr to be mobilized from the private sector.

The plan for the Horticulture hub is to setup clusters across the state and improve productivity and acreage of cultivation.

Of the ₹40,352 Cr of center's contribution, ₹20,884 Cr is earmarked for irrigation, ₹15,000 Cr for horticulture development and ₹4,562 Crs to improve road network across the hubs.

The other part is the setup of Indian School of Agriculture (ISA) to attract talent to the region and to improve scientific research, farming techniques and other digital infrastructure to monitor. Anant Ambani pledged investment from Reliance Industries to the School. I am not sure if Reliance is contributing anything to the horticulture hub though.

Sources: https://knnindia.co.in/news/newsdetails/state/centre-andhra-pradesh-govt-launch-rs-1-lakh-crore-global-horticulture-hub-in-rayalaseema

https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/andhra-pradesh/2026/Oct/03/stone-laid-for-rs-1-lakh-crore-worth-of-global-horticulture-hub-and-isa-in-andhra-pradesh

u/99_constantine — 12 days ago