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TDP to have a major policy for youth

G. Ravikiran

Says the Congress has failed to check price rise

State should encourage meritorious students, he says
It has made education corruption-ridden

PARITALA (Krishna District): TDP president and Opposition leader N. Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday said his party would come out with a major policy for youth with the objective of providing a new direction to create more opportunities for them in future.

Addressing a press conference here before starting his ‘Meekosam Chaitanya Yatra’ for the day, Mr. Naidu asserted that it was because of a focussed policy of growth and development initiated by the TDP Government several years ago that the youth of the State were excelling in greater numbers in all fields of academic and competitive activity. It was a matter of great pride that 2,200 students from the State had secured good ranks at the national level entrance examinations to gain entry into the prestigious IITs in the country.

The TDP chief wanted the Government to support and encourage such meritorious students so as to provide inspiration to the young generation to make more efforts for excellence. “As I said, our State has become a knowledge hub. Our human resources are recognised all over the world. This Congress Government has done nothing for the youth in the past four years neither will it be able to do anything in the next few months,” he remarked.

Corruption

Mr. Naidu said that the TDP would chalk out a major policy for the youth, as they would form the backbone of any society. He deplored that the Congress Government had made even education corruption-ridden, as was evident from the embezzlement in Sarva Siksha Abhiyan programme in which “people close to the Chief Minister were involved deeply.”

Mr. Naidu attacked the Congress Government at the Centre, saying Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had not done anything to check the spiralling rise in the prices of essential commodities. “What best Mr. Singh can do is to see to it that the share market is in a good shape. He thinks the world revolves around shares. We must not forget that the Government should do more to meet people’s needs in their daily lives,” said the TDP chief.

At a road show, the TDP chief said that in the past four years of Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s rule, so much damage had been done to the State that it would take at least 40 years to put it back on the rails.

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