Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu pips K Chandrasekhar Rao in pruning schemes

Hyderabad: While Telangana state Chief Minister, Mr K. Chandrasekhar Rao, has been talking endlessly about streamlining welfare schemes and subsidies but is yet to implement them, his Andhra Pradesh counterpart, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu has been walking the talk without even a survey.

Mr Naidu is using Aadhaar data for weeding out ineligible and bogus beneficiaries in all government schemes, right from ration cards to pensions to fee reimbursement. Around 3-4 lakh “ineligible” pensioners have already been removed in Andhra Pradesh. In fact, many people have been protesting during Janmabhoomi programmes regarding removal of pensions for petty lapses like wrong gender being mentioned in Aadhaar cards in spite of the beneficiaries withdrawing pension for the past one decade.

Clashes, heated arguments, protests and dharnas have been reported in gram sabhas across the state during the ‘Janmabhoomi-Ma Vooru’ programme from pensioners whose names were deleted.