Balancing welfare and development with equal measure and building of a new state with opportunities galore and welfare schemes that touch every section of the society besides providing clean and transparent governance are the focal points of the YSR Congress Party manifesto.
“The manifesto is a compilation of the promises I have made during my mass contact programmes and the development programmes are aimed at retaining the local talent besides generating economic and employment opportunities by massive industrialization and bringing in radical changes in the education, health, farming, service and social sectors,” Party president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy said while releasing the Manifesto at his Lotus Pond Camp office here on Sunday.
Talking on the issue of development he said “We will ensure completion of the following in a time-bound manner. These include
• State of the art, eco-friendly and world class capital city with all modern facilities, connectivity and social infrastructure.
• About 20 faculty based super speciality hospitals will be established in the capital city for integration with super speciality hospitals at the district level.
• Each district to have a University, a super speciality hospital with a medical college, an airport, agro processing zone with facilities for grading, processing and packaging.
• Establishment of rapid rail and road connectivity from the new capital of the New Capital City to Hyderabad.
• NTPC-BHEL Mannavaram project,
• Petrochemical complex by IOC/HPCL,
• Integrated Steel plant in YSR district
• Visakhapatnam-Chennai Industrial corridor
• Anantapur-Krishnapatnam Industrial Corridor
• Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemicals Investment Region (PCPIR)
• IT investment region (ITIR) one each in Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema
• Expansion of the existing Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada and Tirupati airports to international standards
• Establishing a new railway zone
• Metro Rail facility in Vishakhapatnam and Vijayawada-Guntur-Tenali Metropolitan Urban Development Authority
• Duggirajapatnam port project
• Machilipatnam and VANPIC port projects
• 800 MW Krishnapatnam thermal power plant stage-2,
• 800 MW VTPS stage-V,
• Polavaram Hydro power plant of 960 MW,
• 1600 MW Vodarevu Mega power plant stage-I
• Polavaram and other irrigation projects like Uttarandhra, Sujala Sravathi, Handri-Niva, Galeru-Nagari, VeligondaRevamping of drainage systems in Krishna, Godavari and Penna River Basins
• 10 lakh weaker section houses per annum
• Large number of Universities, specialized research institutions and National institutions
In addition, the proposal to appoint ten Mahila police from each village will additionally create more than 2 lakh jobs. Similarly, by virtue of the fact that we propose to give with title to property, it will enable them to mortgage funds to raise capital to establish small businesses.
It is clear that the residuary state is going to experience an unprecedented activity—a huge construction boom—a huge spending on infrastructure. This is going to create exrtraordinary potential for economic growth in the residuary state. This will create a huge multiplier effect. These projects require large quantities of cement and steel besides increasing the demand for work force, thus creating lakhs of jobs for our youth per annum. This will push up the demand for increasing the production of steel and cement—in turn it creates huge demand for mining of lime stone and iron ore—leading to huge push to transportation from mines to production units and from production units to consumer centers. There will thus be unprecedented boom for cement, steel, transportation, mining, construction---all of them in turn creating lakhs of jobs for our engineers, IT professionals and blue collared employees.
There is thus a huge potential for job creation for engineers, IT professionals and technicians. We promise to create an absolutely hassle free and corruption free investment environment in the State.
He said that he had the benefit of personally visiting thousands of poor houses during his mass contact programs. He personally saw their plight and sub human life a large number of them are leading. He was compelled by his conscious to do something to ameliorate their problems and improve their quality of life. For this, he announced a plethora of welfare measures by fortifying various welfare measures that were initiated by late YSR.