Was Andhra Pradesh's debt about ₹97,000 crore when the TDP government took office in June 2014?

No auditor publishes a debt figure for June 2014. The state was bifurcated on 2 June 2014 and its opening debt was an apportionment still being argued over. The nearest published figures are nine months later and both are higher.

دعویٰ

YSRCP government، the 2014 to 2019 TDP period کے بارے میں, 2019-07-10. White paper on state finances, 10 July 2019

Debt when the TDP government took office (June 2014) was about ₹97,000 crore.

عدد: ₹97,000 کروڑ. کسی عوامی دستاویز سے جانچ ممکن نہیں. There is no published, audited debt figure for the residuary state at June 2014. The first year-end figures, for 31 March 2015, are ₹1,22,606 crore from RBI and ₹1,48,743 crore from the state's own book, and they include nine months of the new state's own borrowing.

ریکارڈ

Reserve Bank of India: Outstanding liabilities, end-March 2015, the first published year-end for the residuary state
₹1,22,606 کروڑ (State Finances: A Study of Budgets of 2025-26)
Government of Andhra Pradesh, audited accounts: Outstanding liabilities, end-March 2015, Accounts
₹1,48,743 کروڑ (Statement of Fiscal Policy (FRBM), Finance Department)

فرق کیوں ہے

This claim cannot be checked, and the honest thing is to say so rather than reach for a nearby number. The state came into existence on 2 June 2014. Its share of the undivided state's debt was set by apportionment under the Reorganisation Act, and no auditor published a figure for that day. The earliest published year-end is 31 March 2015. By then the new state had borrowed on its own account for nine months, so neither of those figures is the number the claim is about. RBI and the state's own book also disagree with each other by ₹26,000 crore for that same date, which is a reminder that even the published figures depend on what is counted.

تمام حقائق کی جانچ