Andhra Pradesh government was working out strategies to institutionalise corruption-free and good governance practices with a view to making the principle of less government and more governance a reality.
This was stated by Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan in his customary address to the joint legislature on the opening day of the budget session on Saturday. “My government is keen to bring in necessary reforms to ensure corruption-free administration”, he told the MLAs and MLCs. “We have set up a Cabinet Sub Committee to examine the corruption that has prevailed in the government during the last few years”, he said. Outlining the vision, development plans and various welfare schemes initiated by the government, he said e-governance was a major initiative in bringing good governance. “We are establishing the State Enterprise Architecture to realise the vision of e-governance and to leverage technology for effective service delivery”, the Governor added. In its endeavour to ensure that growth with equity remains the core agenda, the government has started long-term vision document that would usher in a new development paradigm leveraging the opportunities arising due to renewed growth climate. He said the growth matrices of the important sectors of State’s economy have been quite satisfactory and the State as per advance estimates has recorded a growth rate of 7.21 per cent in 2014-15. He said agriculture sector growing at 5.90 per cent, industries at 5.25 per cent during 2014-15, gave some respite. AP was envisaging a double digit growth and identified nearly 40 growth engines spreading across agriculture, industry and services sectors of the economy.
Referring to proposals to divert Godavari waters to Krishna river through Pattiseema project, he said priority of the government to re-charge water table of Rayalaseema and fill reservoirs to full storage capacity.
