Claiming to have achieved unprecedented development in the last four and a half years, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu called upon the party MPs, MLCs and MLAs to lay greater emphasis on welfare from October to January to gain people’s confidence .
Mr. Naidu said that he asked the officials to prepare a vision document for the next five years with a focus on strengthening the infrastructure in villages and extending one welfare scheme or the other to all sections irrespective of caste and party.
Satisfaction level
Participating in a discussion under Rule 344 on ‘Ward Darsini and Grama Darsini- 1500 days progress; village infrastructure development’ in the Assembly on Wednesday, Mr. Naidu said the public satisfaction level was high, but the elected representatives should not be complacent.
He stated that the government has been implementing more than 100 welfare schemes. The TDP government has evidence of the extent to which welfare schemes reached the targeted sections whereas people used to gauge the performance on the basis of their perceptions.
Heavy agenda
The Chief Minister said the government would be distributing assets worth ₹4,000 crore to eight lakh beneficiaries from October to January, 2019, provide drinking water to all villages by March 2020, supply power to the agriculture sector during the day-time if necessary and do various other things in a manner no other State government would have done.
He expressed regret that some leaders who do not even know what GSDP stands for, were criticising the government but it would not be deterred by attempts to tarnish its image among the public, he asserted.
Minister for Transport and BC Welfare K. Atchannaidu said the Congress had meted out step-motherly treatment to the Backward Classes for ten years during the reign of Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, N. Kiran Kumar Reddy and K. Rosaiah from 2004 to 2014. No social strata would be deprived of their rights under the TDP regime, he said.
