Andhra Pradesh Magazine English May 2016 | Page 21

AP PIPS TELANGANA IN
REVENUE COLLECTION

Personal life

She is married to Mohan Rao; they
have a son named Jayakrishnan
and two granddaughters named
Jayashree and Subashree. Her
daughter-in-law, Sandhya Jayakrishna, is a singer who debuted with
A. R. Rahman in Iruvar.

Awards and recognition

She was awarded the Padma
Bhushan by the Government of
India in January 2008. In 2001, the
Andhra Pradesh Government honored her with the Raghupathi
Venkaiah Award for lifetime
achievement in Telugu cinema. In
2005, she received the Special Jury
Swaralaya Yesudas Award for outstanding performance in music.
She was honoured with the Life
Time Achievement Award by the
Filmfare in the year 2006. In 2011,
she was honoured with the Devarajan Sangeetha Award.
She received the National Film
Award for Best Female Playback
Singer five times.
It is to the credit to this queen of
melody that P Suseela is regarded
as their own by all all South Indians - Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and
Kannada. While she learnt Tamil,
Suseela sang soulfully even in
Malayalam and Kannada even
though she was not fluent in those
languages.
Be it Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu or
Kannada, she has to her credit
some of the finest ever songs in all
languages. Generations of Telugu
families have been blessed, listeneing to her melliflous voice.
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ndhra Pradesh has earned
more revenue than twin
Telugu state, Telangana. Two
years ago, Telangana
reported more revenue from tax and
non-tax categories. But, Andhra Pradesh
has now overtaken it by recording 16
per cent increase in revenue. For the
first time, AP surpassed Telangana in
both tax and non-tax revenue categories
including income from commercial
taxes, transport, liquor sale, and stamps
and registration.
Andhra Pradesh received Rs 90,122.58
crore revenue receipts during 2015-16
achieving 100 per cent target. Telangana's revenue receipts are around Rs
88,550 crore.
Interestingly, all revenue earning departments posted impressive collection
figures during 2015-16 even as about
450 mandals are drought-hit with no
farm production.
According to official statistics, AP reported collection of Rs 31,120 crore revenue from sales tax, Rs 12,739 crore
from excise, Rs 3578 crore from land
registrations and stamp duty, Rs 2,128
from transport, Rs 1,390 from mines
and minerals. Entertainment tax, Nala
tax, professional tax, luxury tax, and
sugarcane cess also reported decent
growth rate during 2015-16. AP's own
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tax revenue touched Rs 44,423 crore.
Telangana on the other hand earned
about Rs 40,000 crore. The non-tax revenue of Andhra Pradesh also rose to Rs
5,300 crore. Transfers from the Centre
reported 120 per cent increase over the
previous financial year. AP received Rs
21,966 crore under different grants
from the Centre.
"By introducing finance reforms and following strict budgetary allocations, we
spent over Rs 1.17 lakh crore during
last financial year. The state reported 16
per cent revenue growth as against national rate of 7.9 per cent. We have also
curtailed revenue deficit to Rs 7,143
crore," principal finance secretary PV
Ramesh told TOI.
The state reported the highest revenue
expenditure of Rs 1,17,439 crore including Rs 15,000.64 crore capital ^[