Allocations to education in the state have been falling since 2015-16 as a percentage of the budget. This does not augur well for Andhra Pradesh, which has a literacy (66.4%) lower than that of Bihar (70.9 percent) as per the National Sample Survey 2017-18. 

 

The presence of a good number of Telugu techies in the IT industry, many of whom are from the state, tends to cloud this harsh reality.

https://thewire.in/government/andhra-pradesh-education-budget-government-walk-the-talk

 

In a pandemic year of 2020 when livelihoods have been destroyed, the YSRCP’s strategy of giving cash handouts seems to have worked well for it.

The YSRCP government, however, faced flak for giving the miss to long term benefits, and opting for immediate gains in all sectors including education. In this milieu, the anti-incumbency factor needed for people to vote against the ruling party became difficult to secure for the opposition.

https://thewire.in/politics/as-ysrcp-wins-tirupati-by-polls-comfortably-many-question-pre-poll-fanfare