Govt. is dedicated to uplifting the underprivileged, P-4 will rewrite history, says Naidu

N. Chandrababu Naidu rededicates NDA to uplift underprivileged, implementing 27 welfare schemes for SCs, focusing on poverty-free society.

VIJAYAWADA

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu said the NDA government was rededicating itself to the uplift of the underprivileged by drawing inspiration from former Deputy Prime Minister Babu Jagjivan Ram and that it was implementing 27 welfare schemes for the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and that it had kept the promise of SC categorisation. He pointed out that the previous government left the State in ruins with a debt burden of ₹10 lakh crore but the NDA government managed to put the State back on track and it was focusing on creating a poverty-free society through the P-4 (Public, Private, People Partnership) programme.

Participating in the Babu Jagjivan Ram Jayanti celebrations at Muppalla village in Chandarlapadu Mandal of NTR district on Saturday, Mr. Chandrababu Naidu said the former Deputy PM came up in life through hard work from a very young age and fought social inequalities. 

Jagjivan Ram was in politics from 1935 to 1977, during which period he worked as a Union Minister for 30 years, and was an MP for 50 years. Whatever post he held, he added value and respect to it. 

He noted that he personally witnessed discrimination and untouchability faced by the SCs and issued several orders to abolish that practice, and taking a cue from N.T. Rama Rao’s slogan ‘society is the temple, and people are the gods’, he extended his support to the categorisation of SCs. 

Mr. Naidu said the P-4 programme would rewrite history and that it had no comparable scheme anywhere in the country, and insisted that it was essential to bridge the growing gap between the rich and the poor. The economic disparities were glaring and the affluent sections needed to contribute to achieving the goal of ‘zero poverty’. 

Under the P-4 scheme, the top 10% of society (economically rich individuals) were called upon to support the bottom 20%, and it was already yielding the desired result. Already, 20 lakh families were identified as beneficiaries of that scheme.