Fear!

Ee sms campaigning and spreading prejudices endhuko??
Direct gaa janaallo chepthe Chepputho kodtharu ani bhayama???

Why this hue and cry???

Asalu aayana inka active politcs lokey raledhu...Hez minding his business.
Oppositions parties + "Those 2" newspapers ki endhuku antha bhayam???
These people are degrading to lower levels day by day which is making the people feel sick...
Delhi ki anthaa katta kattukoni vellaru "Sakshi" meedha edavdaaniki...Did they ever paid so much attention towards the woes of the people during these 5 years?? Though the government is functioning effectively,a few problems still persist. Did they ever showed so much dedication towards those?? Never!! All these years, media motham valla hands lo vundhii....After the launch of "Sakshi" there's no scope for Vernacular media.
Asalu veellalo kastapadi pani chese quality vundhaa?? They want to come to power just by fooling people and by spreading false propaganda through media.YSR kudaa opposition leader gaa vunnaru... He came to power fighting for the people,doing the padayatra.
Asalu veellalo magnifying glass petti vethikinaa we cant find that determination and commitment. Vellaku telsindhi okkatey...Mudslinging and making baseless allegations on YS family.
Power is not eternal. Power is not the ultimate goal in politics. The ultimate objective of politics is the upliftment of the down-trodden and welfare of the people.
God knows when these people realise it!

Rajiv Udyogasri

THE real benchmark of success of a government programme is the level of satisfaction it gives to beneficiaries. A case in point is Rajiv Udyogasri, a programme implemented by the administration of Medak, one of the most backward districts in Andhra Pradesh’s Telangana region. The programme is implemented in the district by the Indira Kranti Patham (IKP), a wing of the District Rural Development Agency. It has changed the living conditions of many rural youth, both male and female. Those who mustered the courage to leave their native villages and dream big were trained in industrial skills for two months and offered positions by organisations in the private sector.

Pandari, a 25-year-old polio victim, had not received proper school education. But today, he has secured a job in Hyderabad with a monthly salary of Rs.5,500 thanks to the IKP.

“A cab picks me up from my room near Osmania University and drops me back after work. I never imagined a life like this before I approached the IKP,” says Pandari, who hands over a major part of his salary to his mother, who depends on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to earn a living.

Sujatha, in her early 20s, is a faculty member in the IKP training centre run in Toopran. Her father is a rickshaw puller and her mother a factory labourer. “I learnt communication skills and now impart training to those coming from rural areas in search of jobs. This gives me great satisfaction as I am doing more than what I had expected from myself,” she says.

Imran Sultana, an employee with the IKP at Sangareddy, visits nearby villages once a week to identify college drop-outs and train them for jobs. A Telugu medium student, Imran is fluent in English, and aims to become a World Bank employee. There are many more like Pandari, Sujatha and Imran.

Under the scheme, training is imparted for two months in areas such as construction, retail service, hotel management, computers, security, textiles, call centres, and Tally accounting. After the training, placements are arranged by IKP officials.

Ants and Partners, a Bangalore-based private training institute, has joined hands with the IKP in this endeavour. Around 10,000 youth were accommodated in different organisations in Hyderabad and in rural centres in the last one year.

A. Hameed, district coordinator, Employment Generation and Marketing Mission (EGMM), says: “We are confident of accommodating around 25,000 trained youth by next March. We are even extending financial support in the first month to those migrating to Hyderabad for placement as they have to meet personal expenses until they get their salaries.”

Once candidates register themselves with IKP, their qualifications and age are taken into consideration before they are absorbed into the training best suited for them.

This has changed the social and economic status of many a rural youth. The money they earn now supplements the family income. Some of them invest wisely, in land, for instance.

“Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy has directed other districts to emulate Medak’s example,” says IKP project director Srinivas Baba.

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Rajiv Arogyasree

Details of Rajiv Arogyasri Health Insurance Scheme

Aim:

This is an innovative scheme implemented for the first time in the country. The aim is to ensure health care of the poor, through insurance. The scheme also aims at providing health care to 90 percent of the state population, ultimately.

Scope:

All the poor, having white ration cards are eligible for benefit under the scheme.

Allocation of Funds:

This is a state government scheme. Under it, hospital bills of the insured persons would be paid by the insurance companies. The premium for the insurance policy would be paid by the government.

If people are to contribute, the details:

People need not have to pay anything under the scheme.

Eligibility:

All those having white ration cards are eligible for help under the scheme.

Free medical and surgical aid to children with congenital heart problems:

The state government has also taken up a massive scheme of helping children of the poor, who were born with congenital heart problems to undergo medical of surgical treatment. The entire expenditure incurred for the treatment in expensive corporate hospitals is borne by the government.

Rajiv Yuvashakti

The Congress government launched a new scheme by name Rajiv Yuva Shakthi to provide wage employment and self employment to one lakh youth during 2004-05 with an outlay of Rs.321 crore. It also prepared an action plan for providing employment to 1.5 lakh youth with an outlay of Rs.624 crore during 2005-06.

Loans at 25paise interest

INTEREST SUBSIDY

The Government of Andhra Pradesh introduced Pavalavaddi Scheme (Interest Subsidy) during the year 2004-05 with an objective to provide interest subsidy on the Bank loans taken by the Self Help Groups in Andhra Pradesh to reduce the financial burden on them. The Scheme is applicable to all loans extended by banks on or after 01.07.2004, under SHG Bank Linkage Programme

Need of the Scheme :

1 Self Help movement of women with thrift as entry point has grown as a mass movement in Andhra Pradesh. There are about 6.99 lakh women Self Help Groups covering nearly 89 lakh rural poor women in AP. The Government adopted mocro credit as a tool to attain the economic empowerment of women and facilitated SHG bank linkage programme in a big way since 1998-99 onwards in the State. The SHG women have taken up various income generating activities by availing themselves of the facility under the SHG - Bank Linkage programme and created a path for their economic empowerment. The Nationalized banks, Regional Rural Banks & Co-operative Banks are coming forward to issue loan to Self Help Gropus.

2. The Banks are giving loans under SHG Bank Linkage programme with different rates of interest ranging from 8% to 12%. The groups are facing difficulty in paying such rates of interest.

3. The reduce the financial burden on the Self Help Groups. The Government of Andhra Pradesh introduced the "Pavala Vaddi" scheme (Interes Subsidy) during the year 2004-05 with an objective to provide interest subsidy on the loans taken by Self Help Groups under this scheme.>

Process :

1. The DRDA will obtain the details of SHG repayment for the purpose of interest subsidy twice a year trhough the Mandal Samakhyas.

2. DRDA will calculate the Pavala Vaddi to be given to each SHG basing on the bank statement. The DRDA will give the Pavala Vaddi Cheques to the Mandal Samakhya along with the statement of particulars accruing to each SHG.

3. The Mandal Samakhya in turn will distribute the cheques to the SHGs through the Village Organisations inthe Presence of non officials.

Rajiv Gruha Kalpa

For low-income urban population, government has launched an innovative housing scheme, Rajiv Grihakalpa, with civil infrastructure and free land being provided by government. The government will provide Rs.30,000 towards the cost of land development charges. The beneficiaries should contribute 10 per cent of the remaining Rs.70,000. The rest of the amount would be arranged in the form of loans from banks.

2Rs/kg-Rice

Distribution Of House pattas

Chief Minister Y.S.Rajasekhar Reddy had made the poor man’s dream of owning a house a reality

Indira Prabha

To facilitate immediate and effective cultivation 3.23 lakhs of acres assigned to the poor, the State government has launched Indira Prabha scheme. The beneficiaries will get financial assistance from Indira Prabha to make their land cultivable.

Jala Yagnam

While there is abundant water of about 2745 TMC available for the state, only about 1700 M.W. of water is under utilization in the state, thus giving way to huge quantum of water to go waste into the ocean. About 4000 TMC has been going out waste following heavy rains and floods. To utilize as much of water as possible by construction of river projects and bring millions of acres of lands under cultivation in Krishna-Godavari basin. The State Government has initiated a series of 26 important irrigation projects and 4 major projects under Jayalagnam programme at huge expenditure of rs.46,000 crore, which are envisaged to bring Ten Million acres of lands under cultivation, including stabilization of 3.5 million acres of existing

ayacut apart from providing drinking water to 12 million people in towns and villages across the irrigation canals and generating 2700 M.W. of Power.It is planned to complete eight of these projects within 2 years, thus bringing 16.58 lakh acres aunder cultivation.These are Vamsadhara Stage-2 Phase-1, Tatipudi Lift. Pushkaram Lift, Telugu Ganga, Somasila, Chokkarao Lift Irrigation Project (Godavari Lift), Alisagar Lift, Gupta Lift. It is programmed to complete 18 projects within 5 years and provide irrigated water to a fresh ayacut of 5 million acres. Projects like Sripadasagar (Yellampalli), Chokkarao Project Stage-2 (Godavari Lift), Rajiv Sagar Lift (Dummugudem), Link Canal from Nagarjuna Sagar Project to its Reservoir, and Indira Sagar (Polavaram) are considered to be milestones in the history of State Irrigation. State Government is determined to complete modernization of Pulivendula Branch Canal and Muylavaram Projects as well as Lendi Project with 2 years. Linking of Godavari and Krishna by constructing Indira Sagar Project and Rajiv Sagar project across River Godavari would become a landmark achievement in the entire country, thus paving way to new era in water utility. By inaugurating the Janjhavati irrigation (Rubber Dam) project in Vizianagaram district, first of its kind tobe built with Austrian Technology, during the last week of December 2005, the State Government proved that it is a performing government, giving priority to farmer’s welfare. The State Government has sanctionedexecution of 110 lift irrigation schemes to create an additional ayacut of 1.62 lakh acres. During 2004-05,60 LI schemes were commissioned creating a potential of 43000 acres, besides revival of 160 LI schemes with an ayacut of 80000 acres. Rs.5200 crore MasterPlan of huge number of minor irrigation schemes is being implemented for creating an additional ayacut of 1.5 million acres, and stabilization of the existing ayacut of 5 lakh acres. The budgetary allocation to Irrigation was raised from Rs.1840 crore in 2003-04 to Rs.10,400 (40% of the State’s own revenue) for irrigation sector during 2005-06. An amount of Rs.1200 crore is being spent by the state government under A.P. Micro Irrigation Project to properly utilize the water resources without any wastage. Under the Drought Prone Are Programme, construction of 3540 watersheads was taken up in 11 districts. In Anantapur district where the drought conditions prevail in long spells of time, 772 watersheds are built to bring 3.31 lakhhs under cultivation.

May14, 2004

YS Rajashekara Reddy believes in hardwork and it pays.Congress(I)came to power with a resounding victory.He was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on 14th May 2004.
And the very first signature as Chief Minsiter was on the file that waivers an amount of Rs.1300 crores,the power-bill arrears of poor farmers.

Praja Prasthanam

Praja Prasthanam---The historic 68 day, 1600 Kms Padayatra in rhe scorching Summer of April-May 2003, covering 11 districts,for the purpose of consoling people who were facing extreme difficulties, and try to bring out the inefficiency of the Government and making it turn its attention to the problems. The then, Chief Minister, Mr.Chandrababu Naidu infamously commented "Farmers are committing suicides just for the Rs.1 lakh benefit they get from the govt. if they die." That explains the situation prevailed in the state during taht time.