The 5 key decisions
- The first file signed by Chandrababu Naidu was on the Mega District Selection Committee notification for the recruitment of 6,371 teachers.
- The second file he signed resolved that the new government will conduct a skill census in the state to ensure employment opportunities for the youth.
- The third file signed by him was for revocation of the Land Titling Act as promised by his Telugu Desam Party (
TDP ) and its allies. Naidu had said during the election campaign that APLTA brought by the Jagan Mohan Reddy-led government was detrimental to the people’s right to their properties. He alleged that data pertaining to the land records was handed over to a private company purportedly for storing and expressed the apprehension that it could be tampered with for the benefit of land grabbers. - The fourth file signed by the chief minister was to enhance social security pension for elderly people, widows and other beneficiaries to Rs 4,000 from the present Rs 3,000.
- The fifth file was to re-open the Anna Canteens, set up by the earlier TDP government to provide meals at Rs 5 to the poor and the middle class. After coming to power in 2019, the YSR Congress government had shut down all 204 Anna Canteens across the state in August 2019 alleging corruption in the scheme.
Earlier, Chandrababu Naidu visited two temples, Tirupati and Vijayawada Durga, to offer prayers before he reached the secretariat and took charge amid vedic chants.
This is the fourth time that Naidu took charge as Andhra chief minister and the second time after the bi-furcation in 2014. Naidu became the chief minister first in 1995, before the Andhra bifurcation and he led the state until 2004 for nine consecutive years. The TDP supremo returned as the chief minister of the bifurcated Andhra in 2014 and served until 2019.
He was sworn in as the 18th CM of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other leaders of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) at a grand event in Vijayawada. A 24-member cabinet also took the oath of office along with the chief minister. This includes MLAs of the Telugu Desam Party, Janasena Party and the BJP.
Naidu had led the TDP- BJP-Janasena National Democratic Alliance to a landslide victory in the assembly as well as parliamentary elections. The TDP won 135 seats in the Andhra Pradesh’s 175-member assembly, while its allies, the Janasena Party bagged 21 and the BJP eight. The opposition YSR Congress Party was confined to just 11.
(With inputs from the agencies)