Vijayawada: Chairing the maiden state-level conference of Collectors two months after taking charge of the government, Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu has directed them to have field visits on the 1st of every month and get in direct touch with the people. This mass-contact programme will be named as 'Pedala Sevalo' (in service of the poor).
Informing the meeting that a vision document will be released on October 2 for AP’s fast-paced development, Naidu said that the state has efficient officers but they turned the state into the “most ineffective one” in the past five years.
Observing that the previous government had, through the district collectors’ conference, laid the stone for demolition of the Praja Vedika, Naidu told the collectors on Sunday that the present meet should be a new beginning for the development of the state.
Naidu told the meeting that the IAS officers should make ground-level visits quite frequently and respond to the issues of the people from a human angle. "Officers should accord proper importance to the advice being given by the ministers and MLAs and implement their ideas," he said.
He wanted the bureaucrats to properly counter the “fake propaganda” of vested interests to defame the government. “You should counter such propaganda through your social media accounts and disseminate information that is useful for the public,” he said.
The collectors were told to formulate a vision document at the district level too. Change should be visible in the coming 100 days, he said.
"We all can understand how the administration was in the past five years as not even a single conference of the district collectors was held. I am confident that this conference is going to rewrite history.”
Naidu expressed the hope that by 2047 India would be the world’s number-one economy. "I am confident that by 2029 the state will emerge as the third largest economy, as AP has historical advantages."
The CM told the collectors, "If all of us think in a positive manner, poverty can be alleviated. Rivers should be interlinked to supply irrigation water to every acre to generate wealth."
