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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.”
Andhra Pradesh Vision 2020

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





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