vijayawada chief minister y s jagan mohan reddy who met prime minister narendra modi in new delhi on wednesday listed out the demands of the state and requested him to resolve issues that have remained unattended for the last eight years after the states bifurcationjagan submitted a representation raising the unresolved issues which he said are hitting the development of the residuary state he explained to pm modi that the special committee headed by the union finance secretary held several meetings and discussed the unresolved bifurcation issues and related assurances given by the government on the floor of the parliament but that no progress has been made on resolving the key issues so farthe prime minister was informed that a huge amount of 3262525 crore including the resource funding of 1833045 crore for the 201415 fiscal and pension arrears payable to andhra pradesh has been pending appealing to expedite the release of the funds immediately jagan said a final decision is yet to be taken by the centre on the estimated expenditure of polavaram project despite the technical advisory committee finalising the total project cost at 55548 crore urging the centre to release 293792 crore spent by the state on polavaram jagan requested modi to include the drinking water component of the project in the packagehe also wanted the pm to release rs 1048538 crore on ad hoc basis for land acquisition and to take up relief and rehabilitation works of families displaced in view of the efforts to increase the height of the dam to 4115 metres the pm was also urged to take steps to ensure that telangana government pays dues of rs 6886 crore outstanding from the neighbouring states discoms to ap genco jagan further appealed to modi to grant 14 more medical colleges to the state which now has only 12 medical colleges to cater to the medical needs of people as there are now 26 districts after reorganisation with each district having a population of 18 lakh the issue of allotting mines to meet the iron ore requirements of the steel plant being built at kadapa was also discussed jagan urged modi to extend all cooperation to the proposed 769kmlong metro rail project in visakhapatnam for which dpr has already been submitted besides fulfilling the promise of granting special status to the state as per the assurances given in the parliament he also assured the pm that the state government is fully prepared to face the threat of the emerging bf7 covid variant