The two Telugu States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh were gearing up to celebrate second anniversary of their formation next week.
While Telangana will be marking the day with gala festivities and many big ticket events including the announcement of formation of 14 new districts by bifurcating the existing districts, Andhra Pradesh will be launching the first of its kind e-office system in all the 13 districts. AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu who is reviewing the performance of the administration during the last two years at a two-day district collectors conference in Vijayawada expressed his satisfaction that the fiscal health of the State was improving.
Describing the two year old reorganized state of Andhra Pradesh as a “small baby”, Naidu said that the state was deep in revenue deficit at the time of the formation but now the revenue of the state had registered 3.1% increase.
Pointing out that not all the districts of the state were same or equal, Naidu said that the per capita income of the state was Rs 107,532 but Visakhapatanama was on the top with per capita income of 140648 Srikakulam was the bottom with income of Rs 74638.
Talking of the future plans of the state, he said that the goal was to make the state one of top most states in the country by 2029, he urged the officials to fully cooperate with the government and work with a competitive spirit. He expressed satisfaction over the performance of the district collectors over the last two years.
Naidu laid emphasis on the rain water harvesting to improve the ground water level and said that due to the recent rains, the ground water in the state has increased by 1.51%.
On the e office system the Naidu said that it will be launched in all the districts on pilot basis in the month of June and it will become fully operational by the month of July.
As part of this project the state government had already digitized 2.23 lakh files with 1.72 crore pages and another 2.02 lakh files will also be digitized. Andhra Pradesh has already become the first state in the country to have completely paperless cabinet meetings thanks to the e-cabinet system.
Telanganan Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on the other hand has already completed his review of the administration by holding two-day conference of district collectors in Hyderabad. KCR announced at the conference his plans to create 14 new districts in the state for better administration and the process will be completed by Dussehra festival.
As part of the second anniversary of the formation of Telangana state, the Chief Minister also directed the district officials to register the land free of cost and even on the basis of plain paper documents between June 2 and 10.
The week long state formation festival will also include food festival focused on Telangana delicacies and also literary event of Telugu and Urdu languages to highlight the local culture and traditions.