Capacity Building at all Levels to Improve Admin Efficiency: CM Naidu

“From a village-level worker to a secretary, capacity building is essential for everyone,” the chief minister stated during a high-level review on Planning, the Swarnandhra Vision, and the GSDP at the secretariat in Velagapudi on Wednesday. Naidu advised state government employees to focus on capacity building in order to get better results in the discharge of their duties.

Highlighting the importance of capacity building at all levels to improve service delivery and administrative efficiency, he said, “From a village-level worker to the chief secretary, capacity building is essential for everyone."

The CM said both online and offline training programmes will enhance skills and efficiency among public servants. “From agriculture officers to secretaries, from constables to the DGP, everyone must undergo capacity building,” he noted. Naidu said, “I personally focus on continuous learning. I learn new things, understand emerging technologies and explore how to bring reforms through tech-driven governance. Skill enhancement through training will yield results and improve the quality of governance." He said, “With state, district and mandal-level plans already in place under the Swarnandhra Vision, constituency-specific vision plans are scheduled for completion by next month. Thematic reports will be ready by June and sectoral roadmaps by September. Core policies like Zero Poverty (P4) and Population Management will be embedded into the vision framework. State-wide capacity building workshops will be conducted across all the districts.”

Saying that locations have been identified in 143 constituencies to set up Constituency Vision Action Plan Units, Naidu explained that as part of the Zero Poverty P4 initiative, 1,118 mentors have adopted 15,315 ‘Golden Families’ across the state. To institutionalise this effort, the state government is establishing the Swarnandhra P4 Foundation, with CM as chairman. Naidu announced, “The state government is preparing to introduce a dedicated Population Management Policy with the objective of achieving population balance.

Several decisions have already been taken to encourage population growth, including the removal of limits on maternity leave for women government employees with up to two children and lifting disqualification restrictions in local body elections for those with more than two children.” A comprehensive survey would be undertaken to understand the opportunities and challenges related to population trends, which would help shape the final policy,” he added.