very very important Government Initiatives Arogyashree, Indiramma, Jalayagnam, Indira Kranti Patham, Gruha Kalpa, Mnrega_ap

Rajiv Yuva Kiranalu is conceived by the
Govt. of Andhra Pradesh to build job
specific skills among the unemployed and
place them in appropriate private jobs.
Vision of RYK is to Convert large no. of
non-literate, school drop out, unskilled
and unemployed youth into productive
workforce by building their skills thereby
promoting inclusive growth. The mission
proposes to employ 15 lakh youth in jobs
in the private industry by 2014. The
implementation shall be on a mission
mode. To operationalise the programme,
Government have constituted
1. High level council Rajiv Education
and Employment Council of Andhra
Pradesh (REECAP) has been set up
under the Chairmanship of
Honarable Chief Minister with 9
cabinet ministers, Principal
Secretaries of relevant departments
and 10 representatives of the
Industry and Academia for creating
necessary policy environment and
guiding the implementation
process. This is a unique body
which brings the best of Govt.
Industry and Academia together to
maximize opportunities for the
unemployed youth.
2. An exclusive State Level Society
Rajiv Education and Employment
Mission in Andhra Pradesh
(REEMAP) has been registered to
coordinate the efforts of all sub-
missions on a mission mode.
3. REEMAP will function through 7
sub- missions constituted in 7 Govt.
Depts.

Indira Jala Prabha::

'Indira Jala Prabha' is the flagship
programme of Govt. of Andhra Pradesh
with NABARD and MGNREGS with a view
to consolidate the gains made in the Land
Development Project of the later
programme and to ensure sustainable and
comprehensive development of the land
securing livelihoods. The project aims at
providing assured source of irrigation to
the 10 lakh acres of fallow and
uncultivable land belonging to the 6 lakh
SC/ST farmers of the state. This will act as
a welfare measure in terms of enhancing
the productivity of the lands thus
maximizing their incomes

Arogyasri::

Modern medicine, with its advancement in
technology has made rapid strides in
diagnosis and treatment of many a
complicated disease, hitherto unattended
thus reducing the morbidity and mortality
enormously and improving quality of life.
While advent of non-invasive diagnostic
tools like CT Scan, MRI, Ultra Sound and
radio isotope studies made diagnosis of
disease more specific, the latest gadgets
such as video endoscopes, laproscope etc.
made treatment and surgical procedures
less cumbersome and simple.
Hence there is a felt need in the State to
provide medical assistance to families
living below poverty line for the
treatment of serious ailments such as
cancer, kidney failure, heart and
neurosurgical diseases etc., requiring
hospitalization and surgery. Available
network of government hospitals do not
have the requisite equipment or the
facility or the specialist pool of doctors to
meet the state wide requirement for the
treatment of such diseases. Large
proportions of people, especially below
poverty line borrow money or sell assets
to pay for hospitalization. Presently many
people suffering from such diseases are
approaching the Government to provide
financial assistance to meet hospitalization
expenses for surgical procedures.During
the period from 14.05.2004 to
26.06.2007, financial assistance to a tune
of Rs. 168.52crores has been provided
from CM's Relief Fund in 55361 cases to
meet hospitalization expenses for such
people. From the experience gained, it is
now felt that the assistance could be
institutionalized so that its benefit can be
accessed by poor people across the State
easily and in a trouble free manner.
Health Insurance could be a way of
removing the financial barriers and
improving access of poor to quality
medical care; of providing financial
protection against high medical expenses;
and negotiating with the providers for
better quality care.
In order to operate the scheme
professionally in a cost effective manner,
public private partnership will be
promoted between the Insurance
Company / TPA, the private sector
hospitals and the State agencies.
"Aarogyasri Health Care Trust" recently
setup by the State Government for the
implementation of the Scheme will assist
the insurance company / TPA /
Beneficiaries and coordinate with Medical
and Health Deptt., District Collectors, Civil
Supplies Department etc.
THE SCHEME
Name:
RAJIV AAROGYASRI COMMUNITY HEALTH
INSURANCE SCHEME
Objective:
To improve access of BPL families to
quality medical care for treatment of
diseases involving hospitalization and
surgery through an identified network of
health care providers. In the initial phase,
the scheme would provide coverage for
the following system.
Click here for the complete list of
surgeries and other aid covered under
this scheme.
For further details please visit :
www.aarogyasri.org

INDIRAMMA::

(Integrated Novel
Development in Rural
Areas and Model
Municipal Areas)
Hon. Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy launched the
historic INDIRAMMA programme to
create a novel rural/urban Andhra
Pradesh through development of villages
and municipalities in an integrated
manner.
Government has been implementing
many programmes over the years for
development of infrastructure and on
individual welfare. Since there is always a
universal aspiration of all the people to
be part of this developmental process,
the impact of the programmes
implemented so far is not quite visible
due to the scattered nature of the
distribution of the resources. As of now,
there is hardly any objective, equitable
and verifiable criteria in selection of
towns and villages while implementing
the programmes. An ad-hoc allocation of
money for various programmes has come
into vogue instead of using village as a
unit for integrated planning. Even while
sanctioning programmes and welfare
measures all the genuine requirements of
the villages/towns are not being
considered, resulting in avoidable
dissatisfaction among the public. Thus the
approach is open ended and not
focused.
Keeping the above in view, Andhra
Pradesh Government has taken a decision
to take up development of model villages
and towns with an intention to saturate
certain identified basic needs of the
people and the village/town
Infrastructure In an integrated and
focused manner.This is planned to be
achieved in a period of three years.
This new model of development is named
as "INDIRAMMA" (Integrated Novel
Development in Rural Areas & Model
Municipal Areas) to fulfill the dreams of
our former Prime Minister, Smt, Indira
Gandhi. The objective of this programme
is to saturate the basic needs in respect
of the identified activities in all the
Villages and Towns over a period of Three
years. Such development model will
ensure overall development of the
Villages/Towns in a transparent manner
covering additional areas every year. This
process will remove the uncertainty and
skepticism in certain quarters with regard
to coverage of all eligible beneficiaries
and the infrastructure needs since all the
villages/towns are covered over a period
of three years.
The primary aim of this programme is to
provide in every village pucca houses,
drinking water supply, individual sanitary
latrines, drainage, power supply to every
household, Road facilities for transport,
pensions to eligible old age persons,
weavers, widows and the disabled,
primary education to all, special nutrition
to adolescent girls/pregnant and lactating
women and better health facilities in all
the villages over a period of three years
in a saturation mode, This shall improve
the living standards of the people
significantly.
This programme will be taken up in all
the mandals simultaneously. Taking up
Gram Panchayats covering one third of
the population in the mandal every year,
all the Gram Panchayats will be covered
over a period of three years. 8026 Gram
Panchayats have been selected for the
first phase of the programme starting on
1st April 2006 and the remaining Gram
Panchayats will be covered during
subsequent two years. Government is
ready to launch the programme from 1st
April 2006 and Gram Sabhas will be held
in the selected Gram Panchayats from
6th February 2006 to give details of the
specific activities to be taken up in the
village under the programme.
housing.ap.gov.in

'Jalayagnam'::

, as the word speaks is a
ritual for water conservation. It has been
implemented by Hon. Chief Minister of
Andhra Pradesh Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara
Reddy as a election promise to the
cultivating people of state to bring 82
lakh acres under irrigation in five years.
This project accords the highest priority
for the development of irrigation
infrastructure, particularly in backward
and drought prone areas by taking up
this program in a big way. Jalayagnam
includes a number of irrigation projects
by construction of reservoirs and lift
irrigation systems for lifting water from
major rivers, particularly from Godavari
to provide immediate irrigation benefits.
Jalayagnam programme to complete 32
major and 17 medium irrigation projects
at a cost of Rs. 65,000 crores to provide
irrigation to an extent of 71 lakh acres
besides stabilization of an existing ayacut
of 21.32 lakh acres while providing
drinking water to a population of 1.2
crore and generating power to the tune
of 2700 MW. Eight of these projects were
to be completed before the kharif season
of 2006.
The irrigation development was almost
stagnant for the last decade and the
previous governments were more
concentrating on hi-tech and neglecting
agriculture sector on which
approximately 70% of the population
depends. The fact that 26% of the
population, mostly in rural areas, was
living below the poverty line made him
think whether science and technology
had made a significant difference to the
quality of life in rural areas compared to
towns and cities. Also the suicides of
many farmers from the state made Dr.
Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy to give more
significance and concentrate on the
irrigation sector. Having recognized the
importance of the agricultural sector for
faster economic development, Dr. Y.S.
Rajasekhara Reddy started concentrating
largely on its development and
introduced several schemes for the
benefit of the farmers among which is
Jalayagnam project.
In the past 50 years, a total ayacut of 65
lakh acres was developed in the State.
Jalayagnam, is expected to double the
area under irrigation. Jalayagnam in
Andhra Pradesh would constitute a major
component of the Central government
programme National Irrigation Mission's
(NIM) target of bringing one crore
hectares of land ( 2.5 crore acres) in the
country under the plough.
The large allocation of funds for
irrigation as the government considers
irrigation an important growth engine.
The most expensive of the projects are
the lift irrigation projects intended to
irrigate the dry Telangana region and
supply water to the Anantapur-Ongole-
Mehaboobnagar area which is "turning
into a desert". With the land level being
300 metre above the water level, lift
irrigation is supposed to be the only way
out to take water to the dry region.
Currently, 3,000 tmc water from
Godavari is wasted into the sea as the
land is at a higher elevation.For the first
time in the post-independence era, the
Congress government took up linking of
Godavari and Krishna by constructing
Indira Sagar Project and Rajiv Sagar
project across River Godavari.By
executing projects like Rajiv Sagar, Indira
Sagar flood flow canal, SRSP Phase-II and
so on, 21 lakh acres of parched land in
Telangana region would be made fertile.

Rajiv Gruha Kalpa::
For low-income urban population,
government has launched an innovative
housing scheme, Rajiv Gruha Kalpa, with
civil infrastructure and free land being
provided by government. The
government will provide Rs.30,000
towards the cost of land development
charges. The beneficiaries should
contribute 10 per cent of the remaining
Rs.70,000. The rest of the amount would
be arranged in the form of loans from
banks.
Andhra Pradesh has taken giant leaps
forward in the field of economic
development. The State’s growing stature
has an IT hub has lead to sky-rocketing
property prices. Due to this, the middle
class population in the State is finding it
increasingly difficult to acquire houses
and apartments.
The affluent class has the resources to
obtain and build residential property, and
the Government is providing housing
facilities for the poor in the State. But,
the middle class often feel unattended. To
address this problem, the Government is
launching a housing programme called
“Rajiv Swagruha”. This programme will
enable middle class families to own
houses in urban areas. The housing
scheme will have Integrated Townships in
approved layouts. The townships would
encompass best infrastructure facilities,
with high quality construction.
housing.ap.gov.in

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Indira Kranti Patham::
The activities of DWCRA and Velugu were
integrated under a programme called Indira
Kranti Patham