Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday said that he would gauge the performance of Members of Parliament, Ministers, MLCs and MLAs on the basis of three surveys to be conducted every month.
The stock-taking would be on welfare schemes, quality of services and development projects. “The surveys are to ensure that people are cent per cent satisfied with the TDP government, which did commendable work but had a long way to go to make them happy,” he observed.
Addressing the State party meeting here, Mr. Naidu said top priority was given to irrigation projects in view of the severe drought in Rayalaseema and deficit rainfall across the State. On completion, Polavaram project would bring 19,000 cusecs of water through Pattiseema to Prakasam barrage and even if 50 per cent of the water going waste into the sea from Godavari and Krishna rivers was saved, at least 100 tmcft of water would be available for meeting the irrigation and drinking water needs of Rayalaseema to a large extent.
Pattiseema project, he said, would be ready for inauguration by August 15. Due emphasis was being laid on Handri-Neeva, Galeru-Nagari and Somasila-Kandaleru projects, the lifelines of Rayalaseema, he said.
Mr. Naidu said reconciliation of land records was going on at a brisk pace under the Mee Intiki-Mee Bhumi programme in the wake of the fake pattadar passbook scandals unearthed in various districts. The Chief Minister further said AP had become power-surplus from a deficit of 22 million units at the time of bifurcation and asserted that the Aggregate Technical & Commercial (AT&C) losses would reach the global standard of five to six per cent from about 10 per cent now.
Capital city
Mr. Naidu said the State could successfully pool 33,000 acres of land for construction of the capital city while the proposed amendments to Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 met with stiff resistance from Opposition parties in Parliament.
Arrangements were being made for laying foundation stone for the capital city on October 22. Government employees in AP were drawing highest salaries in the country on a par with Central government scales, he claimed.
Three such surveys will be done every
month, says Chief Minister
