Andhra Pradesh Minister for Panchayat raj and IT Nara lokesh has accused Opposition parties of trying to divide the State vertically with caste and religious. Addressing public meetings during his recent tour to Chittor district, the Minister said, “Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu is working 18 hours a day for the welfare of the poor and for the development of the State. Andhra Pradesh was divided ruthlessly by the UPA Government with Rs 16,000 crore of Deficit Budget.”
Claiming that people of the State are with the CM, the Minister expressed his trust in them and said people will not fall prey to cheap tricks of the Opposition parties. During the tour, he also shared the detail of all development and welfare activities being taken up by the CM.
Naidu’s scion Nara lokesh, who was criticised by Opposition parties as inexperienced and inefficient speaker, proved his critics wrong with his works as Minister exposing the political gimmicks of Opposition in every opportunity he got during public meetings.
As a Minister, he said his prime focus is on ‘Real Time Governance’ through technology and the process has been initiated to establish a separate Real Time Governance Corporation with Rs 1,000 crore Budget. He also said the State Government is also establishing Drinking Water Corporation to address drinking water issues in rural areas and provide drinking water to every household through taps in all the villages in the coming two years. This programme will commence in a month and plans are being prepared to implement and complete this programme in 3 to 4 months in Krishna, East and West Godavari districts, he said.
In 80 days after being sworn-in as Minister, he had effectively completed Digital Membership Drive for the welfare of the cadre, introduced insurance which covers Rs 2 lakh for the deceased, Rs 50,000 for the accident victims, and had provided free education and employment with skill development training and much medical assistance through NTR Trust for the children of the poor party cadre, lokesh claimed.
lokesh said “Jalavani” call centre has been introduced to resolve the drinking water issues in the villages, and had taken measures in way that RWS officials will stay at villages and resolve the issues. Till date 4,848 complaints are received out of which 2,194 are resolved, and for 1,124 complaints measures are initiated to resolve them, the Minister said.
lokesh also said that a project has been initiated to arrange 36 lakh lED bulbs in 12,918 villages in the coming two years and his department had started a pilot project in Gannavaram with the name Chandrakanthi and had planned to implement 5 lakhs lED bulbs in 45 days.
“Soon after taking charge as Minister, I have changed the rules and regulations which were hurdle for CC Roads constructions in villages and released a GO No 30, which benefits 80 per cent of villages” he said.
lokesh is presently in Delhi to meet Central Ministers as well as few important Industrial Bosses to attract investments to Andhra Pradesh.