FREE SAND POLICY OF AP GOVERNMENT – GROUND REALITIES Sand policy of AP: In 2016 TDP Government brought out a very innovative free sand policy with an objective to promote housing, wage employment to local people, to encourage sand transport through tractors. The outline of policy is as under: Free sand quarries in identified and approved sites have to be under control of mandal steering committee consisting of Tahsildar, Sub Inspector of Police and Mandal Development Officer. The boundaries of excavation site shall be fixed and flagged with clear markings and revenue staff are to present to oversee the operations.   Tahsildhar is authorized to utilize NREGS funds to create temporary road in river till regular road point and collect Rs.30/tractor and Rs.60/Lorry to recover the cost of the road and maintenance of road including watering at regular intervals. The sand permit is to be prominently displayed in Tahsildhar of...

POLITICAL PARTIES  .... WAKE UP ...2019 IS NOT  FAR Government Performance: What is going wrong with BJP/NDA? People gave historic mandate to perform and deliver what was promised. Instead they became masters in scoring self goals and getting bogged down with localized issues such as cow economy, religious discrimination, caste issues, sensitising  national security , mandir etc, resulting in attention diversion, nonperformance, questionable deliverables etc. In democracy, political parties are elected to power for five year period. People expect delivery within this time frame. Parties in power may be trying to buy more time through long term vision documents. People are very smart and vision without immediate deliveries are being rejected. Election Politics: Till yesterday, everything was looking rosy for NDA. After thumping victory in UP, the party took the people for granted and started pushing the Hindutva agenda. With Swamiji after Swamiji gett...

CHANDRABABU  NAIDU - VISIONARY AHEAD OF TIMES Introduction: Political administration and bureaucracy are two very important pillars of democracy. Proper coordination and cooperation between these two functionaries is essential to built healthy and wealthy democracy.   Lack of synergy among these two important functionaries is often leading to conflicting situations, resulting in waste of public resources, far below potential growth rates etc reflecting as subdued economy. Politician is the one who look at short term gains through populist programs and benefits, irrespective of its public good and more interested in immediate vote catching techniques. Very few among politicians turn out to be leaders. Leader is one who looks for people’s welfare, development, growth, infrastructure etc and strikes a balance. Leader with long term vision, commitment to delivery, networking skills, team building, and technology interface is a rare combination and very selective few...

TIME IS RIPE FOR PRESIDENT OF INDIA TO INTERVENE AND SAVE DEMOCRACY  In TN 18 MLAs were unceremoniously disqualified by speaker without any valid reason and without giving them chance to make an appeal with speaker office. In Telangana, TDP and Few congress MLAs defected to TRS and one of them even became minister. In AP 21 YSRCP MLAs defected to TDP and four of them became ministers. Despite the repeated requests from respective parties even after 3 years time lapse no action from respective speaker offices. Recent defections in Goa, Manipur etc though they attract anti defection law no action was taken as it was advantageous to ruling outfit. In TN when OPS maintained a splinter group, speaker did not take any action and gave them their own sweet time to settle with booty and power sharing. Now same speaker acted at jet speed and disqualified the MLAs to ensure stability of KP government in TN and to ensure AIADMK joining NDA govt at centre. This is real sad day for...

POLITICIANS PROMISES ARE LIKE WRITINGS ON THE WALL During AP state separation bill discussion in parliament Dr MMS made statement in the capacity of PM that AP will be given special status on far with NE, HP & UC for 5 years. VN was very vocal and demanded for 10 years. During campaign at Tirupathi in the presence of lord Balaji, Modi ji promised that AP will be given ST for 10 years along with railway zone if BJP is voted to power. CBN insisted for 15 years. This continued in all election meetings in AP. Once voted to power, VN was felicitated everywhere and  declared as champion of special status. After a year or so in power , NDA started turning cold to ST and sent feelers like congress did not put it in the bill, Neeti Ayog is against ST to any state in future, ST is been withdrawn from existing states. Finally NDA govt declared that ST is not possible and spl package is announced. Regarding railway zone utter silence is being maintained. VN garu again enjoyed o...

FLOW OF THOUGHTS FROM BGR SOUL (2013-14) - SHARED ON FACEBOOK 12. 04.2014 Hi Friends, Many of us including me coming from various parts of the country to this beautiful city of opportunities "HYDERABAD", have to play major role in making it immune from local politics. It is very important for us to think strategically and take appropriate decisions at this critical juncture. You know our votes are critical and can influence the voting pattern in about 40 constituencies of newly carved state " Telangana". Please use the vote as weapon & ensure democratic values are protected. Vote for leaders who believe in democracy and whom you feel will do good for society. 11.03.2014 In my opinion TDP under CBN leadership committed some strategic mistakes. BJP gave big moral support during 1985 crisis & in 1999 CBN won elections easily with ABV(BJP) charisma adding to Naidu's image. 1999-2004 BJP gave lot of importance and support to TDP. After losing pow...