Telugu Desam Party

The Backdrop

• Andhra Pradesh – Fastest Mover State
• International role model TDP’s goal
     - Swarna Andhra Pradesh by 2020
• Bold vision and determined action

TDP: Total Development Party

• NTR formed TDP to restore Telugu Pride
• Society is our temple
• Poor people our Gods
• Good governance is good politics

Our Vision

“Our vision of Andhra Pradesh is a state where poverty is totally eradicated; where every man, woman and child has access to not just the basic minimum needs, but to all the opportunities to lead a happy and fulfilling life; a knowledge and learning society built on the values of hard work, honesty, discipline and a collective sense of purpose.”

Report Card

• Power - 5169 MWs added
• Irrigation - 12.42 lakh acres additional ayacut, 17.59 lakh acres gap ayacut
• Agriculture - Productivity increases
• Poverty - One of the lowest in India
• Literacy - Highest increase for women
• Population growth - 10.5% reduction
• Investments - From 23rd to 2nd position
• Public Sector - Singareni from loss to profit
• Information Technology - Hyderabad major IT hub
• DWCRA - 4.75 lakh groups, 65.4 lakh members

Thrust Areas

• Growth engines
• Rural economy
• Agriculture
• Irrigation
• Poverty reduction
• Human resources development
• Technology
• Swarna gramam / nagaram
• Janmabhoomi and Self Help
• Local bodies
• Women’s empowerment
• Weaker Section
• Youth empowerment
• Peace and prosperity
• High standards in politics
• Good governance

Agriculture

• Rs.10,000 crores
• Price stabilization: Rs.200 crores
• Rythu Mitra: 4% interest rate
• Modernisation / Mechanisation
• Drought proofing
• Research stations / Quality control labs
• Agro Processing and export zones
• State Agriculture Commission

Agriculture - Allied

• Vision 2020 growth engines
  • Dairy, meat, poultry – First position
  • Fisheries and fish exports
• Horticulture
• Floriculture
• Sericulture Food parks and food processing clusters

Irrigation

• Rs. 30,000 crores
• 3000 TMC of Godavari water going waste
• Polavaram and Ichampalli as National projects
• New irrigation potential of 25 lakh acres 28 lakh acres additional because of Micro irrigation
• Neeru – Meeru

Rural Amenities

• Rs. 4000 crores – rural water supply
• Focus on fluoride and arsenic affected habitations
• Latrines: individual / community / schools
• CC roads in all habitations
• Tar roads linking all villages
• Providing urban amenities in rural areas

Urban development

• Basic amenities for all slums
• 10 lakh BPL families to be brought above poverty line
• Amenities
  • Water Supply schemes
  • Urban transport
  • Parks, play grounds
• Clean and green cities

Education

• 100% literacy by 2006
• Free compulsory education upto 15 years
• Access to education
  • Primary School within 1 km
  • Upper Primary School within 3 km
  • High School within 5 km
  • Junior College in each Mandal
• Eradication of child labour
• Vocation training for 4 lakh students
• IIT - Basra

Health

• Rs 12,890 crores
• Population stabilization by 2010
• Maternal mortality 0.5, child mortality 15
• 100% immunization and eradication of blindness
• Medical college/Speciality Hospital in each district
• Trauma care centers on National Highways
• Mobile Health Brigades
• Telemedicine

Housing

• House site and houses for all houseless poor
• Better architecture
• New technologies

Women’s Empowerment

• Reservations 33.33%
• 40 lakh gas connections under Deepam
• Sales tax exemption
• Mahila Banks
• Rs 7,500 crores corpus for DWCRA Groups
• Minimum Rs 2,500 monthly income
• 40 lakh DWCRA/DWCUA families to be brought above poverty line
• Marketing of DWCRA products
• Girl child protection scheme for 1 girl child in BPL families.

Youth and Employment

• Rs 1000 crores
• 50 lakh self employment and employment in service sector
• Incubators in Universities
• Institutional loans at 4%
• Sports facilities
• Youth Commission

Poverty

• 30 lakh BPL families in rural areas to be brought above poverty line
• 10 lakh in urban areas
• Complete eradication of poverty in 10 years

SC Welfare

• 7.5 lakh beneficiaries
  • 73 small, 15 medium and 6 mega industrial parks
• Rs 1000 crores for 5.5 lakh SC families
• 3.5 lakh students in residential schools (1.77 lakhs at present)
• Upgradation of existing schools into residential schools
• Focus on education and employment

ST Welfare

• Every Girijan tanda to be a tribal sub-plan village
• Every tanda with 500 population to be a gram panchayat
• Reservations as per 2001 census
• Rs 445 crores to cover 2.8 lakh STs
• Existing hostels for tribals to be doubled
• 16 hydel power projects to tribal DWCRA mahila

BC Welfare

• Modern technology/skills
  • Carpenters, goldsmiths, blacksmiths, potters and other artisans
• 7.4 lakh BC families to be covered under self employment
• Maramaggalu
• Handloom and handicraft bazaars
• Financial assistance to artisans who die accidentally/ handicapped
• 4% interest rates

Minorities

• 1.55 lakh beneficiaries, Rs 150 crores
• Assistance for education and training
• 2 residential schools in each district
• Urdu Ghar / Shadikhana

Disabled welfare

• Rs 158 crores, 1.5 lakh families under Velugu
• Maragujju - handicapped
• Revolving fund

Power

• 4110 MWs to be added
• Rs 400 crores for 100% electrification of habitations
• Rs 7000 crores for quality power at affordable rates
• Timely and quality power for agriculture

Roads

• Road density to be increased to 0.85 kms/ sq km
• Rs 12,284 crores
• 7500 habitations to be covered
• 75000 kms of rural roads
• 5,100 kms of state roadways to be upgraded as National Highways
• 772 kms of four laning on NH7
• 2 lane National Highways to be converted to 4 lane

Ports

• Ravva Port: 2.5 lakh tonnes of crude oil
• Machilipatnam to be developed as deep water port
• Kakinada, Krishnapatam, Gangavaram to be developed further
• Minor ports: Improvement of cargo handling capacity

Airports

• Hyderabad international airport to be developed at a cost of Rs.1160 crores
• Extension of runway at Visakhapatnam
• Tirupathi, Rajamundhry, Vijayawada airports to be improved further
• Development of airports at Warangal and Cuddapah

Information Technology

• Internet to all villages
• Cell phones in all villages
• e-Seva throughout the state
• All government services online
• Major thrust to IT / ITES

Industry

• Special Economic and industrial zones
• Single window clearances
• Industrial Infrastructure Development Fund Rs.100 crores
• Netha Bazar for 7.35 lakh weavers
• Gas based industries

Backward Area Development

• Mandal to be unit for backwardness
• Plan for development of backward villages, towns, mandals and districts to be prepared
• Education and health to be further improved
• Council for Development of Backward Areas

Task Force Approach for Backward Areas

• Irrigation
• Water Conservation
• Micro irrigation
• Agriculture
• Agri-based industries
• HRD
• Other infrastructure
• Industrial development
• Employment generation
• Poverty eradication

Law and Order

• Modernisation of police force
  • Cyber crime, factionalism, communalism, extremism
• Multipronged strategy to tackle left wing extremism
• Citizen friendly police force
  • Weaker sections
  • Women
• Community policing

Good Governance

• SMART government (Simple, Moral, Accountable, Responsive, Transparent)
• Performance tracking
• Citizen Charters
• Corruption to be tackled
• e-Procurement
• Reforms
  • Public sector, legal, economic