Two Years of Accomplishments
The State has emerged as best performing state in the country in parameters like providing 100 days wage employment ( 3.1 lakh households ), percentage of wages paid within 15 days ( 78 %) and in Aadhar seeding of wage workers ( 97 %).
It is not just economic development that matters to this Government . Human development is the key to a robust and inclusive society . Towards this end , the Chandrababu Naidu Government has taken up a slew of welfare measures , impacting all sections of the people .
Health for All
In an effort to ensure affordable health care to the citizens duly ensuing equitable access to health care , the Government strengthened the existing programmes like NTR Vaidya Seva , which offers 1,044 surgical and medical procedures to the poor people , 108 for Emergency Health Services , 104 for Fixed Day Mobile Health Services , Family Welfare Programmes under National Health Mission etc . In addition , new programmes such as e-Aushadi , 102 Talli Bidda Express for Maternal and Child Health , NTR Vaidya Pariksha , Tele Radiology etc have been launched .
The Government has secured sanction for AIIMS at Mangalagiri , which is under construction . The commissioning of Visakhapatnam Institute of Medical Sciences ( VIMS ) and Sri Padmavathi Government Medical College for Women at Tirupathi is under process .
Food and Nutrition Security
As part of the Integrated Child Development Scheme ( ICDS ), Supplementary Nutrition Programme is being provided to 26.45 lakh children and 8.56 lakh pregnant & lactating women . The Government is also implementing Anna Amrutha Hastam , which provides one full meal to Pregnant & Nursing Mothers in 104 high burden ICDS projects . This scheme was availed by 3.45 lakh mothers at an expenditure of Rs . 91.04 Crores in 2015- 16 .
A new scheme , ‘ Giri Gorumuddalu ’ ( GG ), with special and supervised feeding , was launched on August 15 , 2015 to meet the nutritional needs of children in Tribal Areas in the age of 6 months to 6 years . This has benefitted 1,33,733 children in tribal areas .
The Government has provided essential 33 commodities to 4.01 crore people through the Public Distribution System with an expenditure of Rs . 2,459.39 crores in 2015-16 . In 2016-17 , this expenditure is estimated to be Rs . 2,702.20 crores .
Education for the Poor
Financial support is being provided to students belonging to SC , ST categories who want to go abroad for higher studies under Ambedkar Overseas Vidya Nidhi . Likewise , professional guidance for civil service aspirants under NTR Vidyonnathi , skill upgradation for professional graduates and placement linked skill development for youth under Chandranna Cheyutha are also being implemented .
Community Development
The Government has established separate corporations for the Kapu community as well as the Brahmin community to help the poorer sections . Te Andhra Pradesh Kapu Welfare and Development Corporation and the Andhra Pradesh Brahmin
Welfare Corporation were constituted in 2015-16 . During 2015-16 , we have assisted 12,000 Brahmin families to advance economically . It is proposed to enable 50,000 Brahmin families to progress economically in 2016-17 . The Government assisted 32,000 Kapu families with an outlay of Rs 100 crores during 2015-16 to help them advance on the economic front . An amount of Rs 1,000 crores to the Kapu Development Corporation was allocated this year , an increase of ten times the allocation in 2015-16 .
Employment Guarantee
Andhra Pradesh received the national award for “ Effective Initiatives under MGNREGS ” in 2015-16 . The State has utilised more than Rs 3,400 crores during 2015-16 , to create not only productive employment to those in need but also to revitalise the rural infrastructure and the consequential public services . This has become possible by converging MGNREGS with Neeru-Chettu for water conservation , Swatch Andhra Pradesh for construction of Individual Household Latrines ( IHHL ), Wada Wadalo Chandrannabata for construction of CC Roads , etc . The State is the best performing state in the country in parameters .
Swachch Andhra
Andhra Pradesh could become the first state in the country to make all its urban areas ‘ Open Defecation Free ’ by October 2 , marking two years of the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission , Union Urban Development Ministry . v JUNE 2016 ANDHRAPRADESHMAGAZINE . ORG 23