Downloaded from http://smartprep.in Downloaded from http://smartprep.in COMMEMORATING MARTYRS aw and order is essential for industrial devel - district and the next police commemoration parade opment and the police in the state are doing a will be held there. commendable job, Chief Minister N Chan - Earlier, Governor ESL. Narasimhan along with the drababu Naidu said. Paying tributes to the police CM paid tributes to the police martyrs who sacri - martyrs, the CM announced Rs. 15 crore for police ficed their lives in discharging their duties in con - welfare fund and construction of a hospital and rest nection with the Police Martyrs Commemoration house exclusively for police in the capital. The Gov - Day. Home Minister N Chinna Rajappa along with ernment will pay Rs. 5 lakh insurance to each home Director-General of Police (DGP) N Sambasiva Rao guard who died on duty, he added. He said a perma - also placed the wreaths at the martyrs pylon and ob - nent police martyrs pylon would be constructed on served two minutes’ silence praying for peace to the APSP 6th Battalion campus at Mangalagiri in Guntur souls of the policemen who died on duty. L Downloaded from http://smartprep.in C O N T E N T S A New Beginning for Administration Kribhco to Invest Rs 1000cr in AP 24 6 Plant The stage is set for full-fledged functioning of the Government of Andhra Pradesh from the Interim Government Complex (IGC) at Velaga - pudi in Guntur district. AP Launches Electronic Urban Public Health 28 5 Centre (EUPHC) A Principled Journal - 20 ist Khasa Subba Rao CM declares Happening Andhra assets Various developments across the 32 state of Andhra Pradesh. Cities as Engines of CM addresses concerns 12 Growth over Food Park 9 26 AP signs two shipbuild - AP tops in Business 10 Reform 15 BETS BIG ing MoUs with Russia ON REMAKES Snapshot 34 Chief Minister’s Fish Production in AP 29 Social Network Thoughts on New Educa - 16 tion Policy 2016 30 PAPIKONDALU Hills, Waters & Forest! Celluloid 22 Wizard Downloaded from http://smartprep.in ANDHRA PRADESH EDITORIAL Published Monthly In English & Telugu Volume:11 November 2016 Issue:5 Salivahana Era 1938 Commissioner S Venkateswar IIS A Worthy Precedent Editor Ramesh Babu Kandula The declaration of assets by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu for the sixth successive year has firmly established a worthy prece - Executive Editor dent in accountability among public servants. Naidu began voluntary NCoavreers Pha gNe unna declaration of assets long before he became the Chief Minister, dru - Heralding Deepavali ing his stint as the leader of the main opposition party. More com - mendable is the fact that the Chief Minister has been disclosing not Second Cover only his personal assets but that of every member of his joint family. Police Comemmoration Day At a time when personal integrity and transparency in public life have Third Cover CM in various programmes become scarce, it is imperative that such bold initiatives are acknowl - edged and appreciated. Fourth Cover APIIC Advt on Sunrise State Politics, for some time now, has become the first resort of persons whose sole objective appears to be to accumulate enormous amount of wealth by hook or crook. In the backdrop of this stark reality, the Published by: annual public declaration of assets by everybody active in public life Information & Public Relations should be made mandatory. Department Some chose to quibble at the declaration of assets by the Chief Min - Government of Andhra Pradesh ister’s family, making unsubstantiated – as well as unconvincing - Hyderabad - 500 028 claims about benami (undeclared) properties. The Chief Minister, Ph: 040-23300258 time and again, maintained that if anybody could prove that there Views expressed by various were any more assets over and above the declared ones, those would authors in this issue reflect their be gladly passed on to the bounty hunters. personal opinions. Hurling reckless charges against the Chief Minister’s declaration will not absolve the opposition leaders of their responsibility to make a Design public disclosure of their own assets. The true spirit of democracy is Karthik Beesu vindicated only when transparency is ensured across political spec - trum. High time for all those in public life to emulate the example of Photos: the Chief Minister! T.Srinivasa Reddy, Vijayawada Printed at Caxton Offset Pvt. Ltd. Hyderabad Each Issue : Rs 20/- Annual Subscription : Rs 220/- www.andhrapradeshmagazine.org Ramesh Babu Kandula Email: [email protected] www.ipr.ap.nic.in Editor Ramesh babu kandula M/s Caxton Offset Pvt. Ltd Printed and Published by on behalf of Director/Commissioner, Information and Public Relations Dept.; Printed at ., 11.5.416/3, Red Hills, Hyderabad - 500 004; Published at Office of Director/Commissioner , 4 I&PR Dept, Govt of Andhra Pradesh, SamachAaNr DBhHaRvaA nP, ARCA GDuEarSdH s,M HAydGerAabZaINd E- 5.O00R0G 28. Editor: Ramesh Babu Kandula. NOVEMBER 2016 Ph: 040-23300258. Downloaded from http://smartprep.in CM declares assets Assets of the Chief Minister’s entire family members were made public. Following his own initiative six years ago, Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu made voluntary disclosure of his family’s assets this year too. n a gesture that will gladden the when he took over as the chief minis - virtues of trust and transparency,” hearts of all those who like to see ter of Andhra Pradesh. Lokesh said. “No other family of any transparency as a way of life in On the other hand, Chandrababu’s politician in the country has declared the top leadership, Chief Minister wife, Bhuvaneswari, who is the man - its assets in such a transparent man - N Chandrababu Naidu made voluntary aging director of the family enterprise ner. We hope that all the politicians disclosure of his family’s assets for the Heritage Foods, owns assets worth Rs follow our path and declare their as - sixth consecutive year. 33.66 crore. Son Lokesh, presently sets.” The CM’s son and the ruling TDP Gen - general secretary of the TDP, owns He said Heritage Foods, which was es - eral Secretary Nara Lokesh gave a full properties worth Rs 14.50 crore and tablished by his father in Chittoor dis - account of the assets and liabilities of daughter-in-law Nara Brahmani owns trict 24 years ago, had been providing the family members. The net worth of assets worth Rs 5.38 crore. employment to over 10,000 people. “It Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s The Chief Minister’s family also dis - has bagged several awards for corpo - assets is Rs 67 lakh, according to the closed the value of assets registered in rate excellence. We have grown to this declaration. the name of Devansh, Lokesh’s 18- stage by grace of god,” Lokesh added. Chandrababu has various properties month old son. They are worth Rs He said if anybody proved that the worth Rs 3.73 crore, but also bank 11.70 crore. family owned more assets than what v loans of Rs 3.06 crore — taking his net “We have been declaring the assets of they have declared, they would trans - worth down to just Rs 67 lakh. This fer the same to him. NOVEMBER 2016 AoNuDr fHaRmA ilPyR vAoDluEnStH aMrilAy GfoAr ZthINeE l.aOstR sG ix 5 was against Rs 42.4 lakh he declared years to show that it lived by the in 2015 and Rs 70.69 lakh in 2014, I Downloaded from http://smartprep.in CM Chandrababu formally occupying his chambers at IGC A NeW BeGINNING for AdMINIstrAtIoN The stage is set for full-fledged functioning of the Government of Andhra Pradesh from the Interim Government Complex (IGC) at Velagapudi in Guntur district. t’s a new beginning for the ad - air-conditioned, and automated The CM set the trend as he moved ministration of the State of building software, offer comfort - to Vijayawada in 2014 and started Andhra Pradesh able working atmosphere. working from a renovated bus In tune with the thinking of Chief Hundreds of secretariat employees until the Irrigation Circle office Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, the arrived on October 3 to Velagapudi, was renovated. seat of Andhra Pradesh Govern - even as the entire premises of sec - Once the decision for building an ment has moved to Amaravati in a retariat was decked up to welcome interim complex housing the record time. The Interim Govern - the staffers who formally started offices of the Chief Minister, Minis - ment Complex at Velagapudi working from the new administra - ters, employees, and the Assembly presently houses the entire Secre - tive headquarters of the state. at Velagapudi was taken, the Chief tariat staff, besides all offices of It was 24 months ago that Chief Minister closely monitored the secretaries and the ministers’ Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu progress and put constant pres - chambers. announced that the Telugu Desam sure on the firms to complete the The five blocks at the Interim Gov - government would start function - construction at jet speed. The 6 ernment Complex, all modernA eNdiD- HRA inPgR AfrDomES HthMe ACaGpAitZaIlN cEo.mOiRnG g up in foundation stone fNoOr tVhEeM inBtEeRri m2016 Ifices of glass and steel, completely between Guntur and Vijayawada. complex, which is equidistant from Downloaded from http://smartprep.in Undavalli and the villages where the phase of loan waiver for DWCRA event. seed Capital is coming up, was laid women. Every group member would Coming up in 950 acres area on the on February 17 this year. get Rs. 3,000 as second instalment banks of Krishna River, the adminis - Two leading firms— Larsen & and the remaining Rs. 4,000 would trative core will house all the wings Toubro and Shapoorji Pallonji— be given in due course.