CBN, UNCOMPROMISING LEADER – THE JOURNEY CONTINUES ……… Leadership is not about next election, it’s about the next generation. A leader's job is not to do the work for others, it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.  CHANDRABABU NAIDU: The above quote of Simon Sinek exactly reflects the personality of Sri. Chandrababu Naidu, whose untiring political journey over forty years brought laurels to Telugu community across the globe with his sheer hard work and futuristic thinking. Exactly four years back, residual Andhra Pradesh came into existence with huge budget deficit and no shelter to run its administration. With his exemplary leadership skills, CBN created temporary secretariat within 8 months span of time, shifted administration to new city –Amaravathi and proved that AP people are capable, committed, hard working and can do wonders under able leadership. Despite scarce resource

Floral tributes to NTR (ANNA GARU) Messiah of poor and a man who won hearts of millions including his bitter critics. In 1999, I was camping at remote tribal areas in East Godavari Dist for conducting political analysis for a friend of mine who was contesting election from Rajahmundry. Tribals in remote areas could recall only two leaders names,  NTR and Indira Gandhi. Then CM CBN Garu and Sonia Gandhi ji names are recalled as NTR alludu and Indiramma Kodalu. It’s incredible  for a soul come from glorious cinema world living with all luxuries to internalise with ground realities and quickly found a permanent place in their hearts. NTR is the architect of welfare programs in AP and with utmost dedication he could implement free rice to poor, property rights to women, mid day meals, social welfare hostels and the list is unending. The greatest tribute to NTR is that most of these programs became national programs and being implemented across the nation. His commitment to farmers i

TONGUE TWISTING -TRAIT OF SELECTIVE POLITICAL BREEDS Background: Special category status (SCS) for five years to residual Andhra Pradesh was promised through a statement by then Hon’ble Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in both the houses of parliament and Sri. Venkaiah Naidu demanded for 10 years while participating in the discussions in Rajyasaba.   Sri Narendra Modi then PM candidate of NDA promised that SCS to AP will be extended for 15 years if BJP is voted to power and in fact it’s mentioned in BJP election manifesto also. State reorganization bill contains Railway Zone, Sea Port, Steel plant, Polavaram project completion with national status, State capital project-Amaravathi, two industrial corridors and series of Educational institutions.   After three years, SCS was deferred stating that it is not part of reorganization bill drafted by previous Government and somehow the present NDA Government is finding ways to avoid SCS to AP. In lieu of SCS, spl package was p

VEDANTA GROUP- PUBLIC MUST KNOW THE FACTS Vedanta group took over 65% stakes in Hindustan Zinc Ltd (HZL) from GOI during the year 2000 as part of PSU disinvestment plan. The plant is having 365 acre prime real estate land base in close proximity to Vishakhapatnam city.   In fact the land was acquired from poor farmers with promise of jobs and industrial development. They ran the unit for about 10 years and in 2012 closed the unit citing the reasons of pollution and raw material availability.   In fact there are no serious complaints about pollution from public and as the raw material is from their own mines it is not an issue at all and its clearly evident that VEDANTA GROUP want to close down the unit with some lame excuses and exploit the commercial value of the land.   In fact there are HPCL, Coromandel Fertilizers functioning next to HZL and there are no problems with pollution.   How GOI did allow VEDANTA GROUP to stop production at HZL? What is the hidden agenda and co

POLITICS WITH PULSES-  FARMERS LIVES AT STAKE http://www.business-standard.com/article/markets/centre-allows-import-of-pulses-despite-farmers-sitting-on-huge-stocks-118052100261_1.html Please read the article ( shared ink)     and internalize for yourself, how your own family, brothers, sisters, uncles from our farming community is suffering due to inconsistent policies, indiscriminate import of Agri produce etc resulting into huge filing of stocks at farmers level, agencies level , resulting into market glut and no signs of any recovery in near future. What a pathetic situation.    Forget for a while that you are a software engineer, high profile finance consultant etc, walk into the chapels of a farmer and understand how he is being victimized due to our Government’s urban middle class influenced policies. Farmer’s issues: In last two years I had written many blogs, reached policy makers including PMO, NITI Aayog, and ministers and presented the case with full data

NATIONAL RIVERS LINKING - MANY HAD DREAMS, ONLY CHANDRABABU NAIDU COULD DO IT Interlinking of Rivers in India: Sir Arthur Cotton, popularly known as Cotton Dora in Godavari delta for his outstanding contribution towards Dowleswaram  anicut at Rajahmundry on Godavari is the first irrigation engineer from Madras presidency who came with the idea of rivers and canals linking for cost effective transport and to address drought and water shortage particularly in southern parts of India.   Sir Cotton’s contributions include aqueduct on Krishna at Vijayawada, Dam on Kaveri near Trichy  in TN. His contributions to Godavari delta and Konaseema are so good, due to which people treat him as a god and one can find many statues of Sir Arthur Cotton in many Godavari districts villages.   Though he took up few canal navigation projects successfully, the river linking did not materialize.     After 100 plus years, in 1970 again the river linking project resurfaced By Dr. K L Rao, Ex Irriga

NAFED MSP PROCUREMENT – FACTS PUBLIC SHOULD KNOW NAFED MSP Procurement: NAFED, an independent public sector organization is entrusted with the responsibility of supporting various states through market intervention program of buying produce directly from farmers    with minimum support price (MSP) or MSP plush state declared addl bonus and store in the godowns.   NAFED engaged StarAgri as their warehouse partners and local procurement is entrusted to APMCs and other local channels through respective State Markfeds or NeML. Certification of crop extent, giving sale permits to farmers etc is handled by Markfeds in coordination with revenue and agriculture departments. Genuine farmers had night mare crossing these hurdles, where as traders and political personalities under the cover of farmer, could reach NAFED godowns directly bypassing the systems and controls. Farmers’ Situation: In case of poor farmers, they have to make produce   lots in market yards, based on se