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Is Chandrababu Naidu really taking the state forward?

Qualitatively, however, little has changed. The economy totters, the digital dream fades like dew at daybreak, the agrarian sector rumbles with discontent, the lower middle class plunges deeper into its apathy... But there is yet the silver lining. In the form of the middle class, and the elite, direct beneficiaries of the Naidu dream. Excellent roads, improved power situation, a blossoming computer industry with its concommitant of job opportunities... Electronic governance. SMART (simple, moral, accountable, responsive, transparent) government. Glittering economy. An Indian Silicon Valley... He has taken several initiatives - the creation of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, International Business School, Hi-Tec City, etc - which would bring results in the long term. so frns ..lets wait and watch..

Posted by: Mr. Siri Siri At: 30, Apr 2003 10:37:17 AM IST

why not ,wht urthinkng about him ,i know the statements of him from 7 1/2 years he well devolped andhra

Posted by: Mr. ravi raghavendra raghavendra At: 30, Apr 2003 9:30:06 AM IST

whether naidu is taking the state forward or not, i cannot say, since i am not directly in touch with that issue. but one thing i can say, he was different enough to have caused major ripples everywhere. innallu andaru conservative ga govt run cheste "villandaru musali vaallu, we need someone radical, someone young, who is not afraid of making big chances" annamu. ipdu naidu different ga chestunte malli daniki kuda tapu patte valu unaru. naidu's route whether beneficial or not will be clear only in the future (right now, we can only have opinions), but he took a different route no route is perfect. "CBN is not doing anything for common man" antunaru. as if ipativaraku ochina govts ani farmers kosam, common man kosam edo developmental programs petti padipoyinatu. anyway, evaru inta varaku common man kosam emi cheyala, chesi unte manam yenaado US kanna developed country ayyevalam. mari naidu ne enduku tappu pattatam? in the world's largest democracy, where chaos is at home, its wrong to blame naidu. in my opinion, even assuming that he kept up the tradition of not doing 'anything for the common development' he atleast did something for the 'uncommon development', by pushing the techonology graph.

Posted by: Ms. G Sunita At: 30, Apr 2003 3:43:33 AM IST

I think as far as i know, the state is in that place only..In the india map also the state is there itself.. Unless an earthquake comes, the state cannot be moved i guess..:p joke chesanu..lite teesukondi

Posted by: Mr. Suresh At: 29, Apr 2003 11:29:48 PM IST

NO DOUBT NAIDU IS A HARD WORKER BUT I FEEL OUR STATE DID'NOT GET BENEFITED FROM HIM RATHER HE WORKED HARD IN FOOLING THE PEPOPLE. MOST OF YOU MAY BE AWARE THAT WHEN NAIDU TAKEN UP THE CHAIR OUR STATE'S TOTAL DEBT WAS RS 6000 CRORES AND TODAY IT REACHED TO RS 40,000 CRORES ,WHERE ALL THIS MONEY HAS GONE..WHO GOT BENEFITED WITH ALL THESE FUNDS.. DEVELOPMENT DOESN'T ONLY MEAN INCREASE IN EXPORTS OR RAISE IN GDP OR MAKING MIRACCLES IN ONE OR TWO PLACES/SECTORS BUT IT REALLY MEAN UPLIFTMENT IN THE LIVING STANDARDS OF MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE...MAJORITY OF THE SECTORS.. DURING HIS 7 YEAR TENOR THERE WAS ABNORMAL GROWTH IN FEW SECTORS ...BUT OTHER AREAS WERE LEFT TO THEIR OWN FATE.. A REAL VISIONERY AIMS AT BALANCED DEVELOMENT WHICH CAN ONLY SATIFY ALL SECTS OF THE SOCIETY..THEREFORE I FEEL HE IS NOT A PERFECT VISIONERY TO MOULD OUR STATE IN TO SWARNANDHRA ... SWARNA(GOLD) IS FOR RICH ONLY......FOR POOR IT'S ONLY ANDHA(BLIND)

Posted by: Mr. Suresh Pallempati At: 13, Oct 2002 7:26:30 PM IST

I hope he is really trying to take the state forward, but some of his ministerial is not so helpful to him. 2. Naidu should remember that during the tenure of p.v.narasimharao there are lot scams unearthed and during the tenure of Tamil nadu's chief minister lot of scams unearthed. It shows that if people give the long term tenure to one party, then the party involved in many scams. So Mr. Naidu has to take care of these type scams on war foot measurement to take the state forward. If he wants.

Posted by: Mr. SIVAJI D. At: 7, Oct 2002 8:13:20 PM IST

hello, THere had been quite a good number of issues raised on what I have posted. Let me try to answer. 1) Statistics: Ravi, I agree that the statistics are not up to date but remember onething, there had been nothing done in the recent years done by Mr Naidu that has caught the media. He is less talked about these days except when he introduced the budget. Though I dont rember any numbers I remembered that the situation has still worsened. May be if I find time I will put up those facts. Otherwise you yourself can go through it. 2)Communism: This has really shocked me when people took a hasty conclusion that I am somehow talking from communist view point. :-). No statement of mine really did talk anything about communism all it said is "The Financial policy of any govt should consider the majority intrest" its more a democratic statement than a communist statement. Do read my posting once again if you can. 3)Should we try to be an Agri based Economy: This is somehting intresting. I belive its unavoidable. True that we can put our efforts in industry and produce more ready dollars. That is something welcomed but remember we are one of the largest populated countries and we cant imagine to import food to feed our people. So a farmer's role is always going to be vital even after 2-3 generations. Whether we like or dont like there is no escape for our country. It has to burden its farmers. 4) Captalistic economy:Its a very vast topic and demands a detailed understanding of what it is and will it really help India. I guess a new posting will be helpful to really discuss about the 'goodness of captalistic economy' in INdia or AP. well, any more comments are welcomed. Mr Klb, I have just one statment for you - "I expect people to be more sensible".

Posted by: Ms Samatha G At: 15, Jun 2002 11:42:45 AM IST

hello swapna I know ur the twin of samatha.I know that.Just dont keep on telling the same thing with different names

Posted by: Mr. klb At: 15, Jun 2002 10:17:53 AM IST

Ms samatha Emiti tamaru lefta.avunulendi.epudu govt ni oppose cheyadamega tamari pani.

Posted by: Mr. klb At: 14, Jun 2002 11:53:54 AM IST

hello all, I see a great appreciation for Chandrababu Naidu's Govt! :-) well, let me make you all aware of somethings.....;here it goes!! whats the first thing we think about Chandu's govt when compared to all previous govt. Yes it is social reforms.( May be the term is inappropriate... I dont know but I mean all those schemes he introduced). Lets observe the impact of these on our state. a) The positive impact we can think of; and is talked widely here is "direct involvemnet of public in govt activities".Really a novel idea. b) The financial effects of this on our state. Somehow unfortuanately many neglect this thing. Forget about a layman who doesn't knwo reading and analysing, even we -the educated most of the time miss this point. (NOt our fault its media's fault and particularly a tactian like Chandu is capable of doing "greeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaatt things" :-)) Lets consider point (a) later and let me put forth few things related to (b) His was the first state to embark on a massive programme of restructuring in accordance with the guidelines of the World Bank and IMF. His first task as chief minister was to fill the empty coffers of the state treasury. One of the instructions of the World Bank was to cut subsidies. Naidu increased power tariffs, water rates and bus fares, while there was reduction in rice subsidy, professional tax and turnover tax on trade was increased. We can understand him, afterall he is doing all these for a "rapid growth" which needs to take loans from World Bank. (whats the intrest we have to pay for the loans????? ) here are some figures I can give you related to the intrest we are paying: A glance at expenditure reveals that the axe of increase in non-plan expenditure fell on social services in 1996-97, from 44 per cent of the total revenue of expenditure to 36 per cent. Along with it loans and grants given to different local bodies in 1996-97 declined. The internal borrowing's in 1996-97 were Rs 2,792 crore. Around 82 per cent of this was repayment of principal and payment of interests. Again 93 per cent of receipt of small savings, provident fund and deposits was used for repayment of principal and payment of interest. Internal debt has increased by about Rs 500 crore every year since 1991-92. In 1996-97 it was up by Rs 1,000 crore. Because the state had no money it postponed repayment of loans to the centre six times in 1996-97. To make matters worse Rs 2,140 crore of the budgeted amount was not spent in 1996-97. It is intriguing that a state under resource crunch was not able to spend even the allotted amounts. The story was the same for external loans. Loans received have not been fully used. *****************WHAT IMPACT DOES A FINANCIAL POLICY OF THIS KIND HAVE ON THE POOR OF THE STATE??????????????????? ("Hi-tech" CM seems a perfect name for him :-)) Though the education expenditure increased, much of the increase was in higher education. On nutrition and medical health, areas of concern for the masses, the expenditure was low. He is consciously pro-rich. All his programmes are meant for the wealthy sections of Andhra. For the poor, things have become worse ever since Chandrababu Naidu initiated his reform programmes. (unfortunately our state has poor in majority) Naidu no doubt has emerged as the most visible chief minister and the darling of the rich because of this pro-rich policies. His concept of development is limited to cities and towns. The construction of flyovers does not provide food, clothing and shelter to the poor. It makes the rich contractors richer and provides better infrastructure facilities to capitalists and traders. The huge amounts spent on industry oriented infrastructure are normally at the cost of rural development. The closure of several state level public sector undertakings has increased unemployment. Privatisation and liberalisation are mantras of the global capitalists whom Chandrababu Naidu has been sensitive and welcoming. Markets do promote efficiency and serve the consumers who have the requisite purchasing power. The fact is markets ELIMINATE PHYSICALLY ALL THOSE WHO DONT HAVE PURCHASING POWER.That is why we have witnessed suicides of farmers in Chandrababu Naidu's state. This is the financial policy of our dear CM. and about the schemes in detail................later! well, I did promise that we will look into (a) and by now you must have felt that we cant afford "wonderful financial policies" like these to get the (a). See, I really like the idea of participation of public but the implementation is throughly bad!!!! Can our Govt do this?? and can be remain unaware of these hard facts??? Think !!!!

Posted by: Ms Samatha G At: 14, Jun 2002 11:11:15 AM IST

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