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AP CM vows digital literacy
Delivering Keynote address at a summit on ‘Digital disruption and innovation: Navigating the NextGen revolution’, here on Thursday, the Chief Minister said that the technology, which the State was using today, would be implemented in the country in future. “To utilise the latest technology used by ISRO, a high-level convention will be conducted in Vizag on October 10 with all university Vice Chanc
Visakhapatnam: Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said that the government wants to make Andhra Pradesh as an ideal Digital Literacy State with optimum utilisation of available latest information technology aiming to provide clean, transparent and effective governance.
Delivering Keynote address at a summit on ‘Digital disruption and innovation: Navigating the NextGen revolution’, here on Thursday, the Chief Minister said that the technology, which the State was using today, would be implemented in the country in future. “To utilise the latest technology used by ISRO, a high-level convention will be conducted in Vizag on October 10 with all university Vice Chancellors,” he informed.
Naidu said that there are various technological initiatives being used in the State and they include, e-Pragathi, e-Office, CCTVs, DRONES, Bio-Metrics and Big Data Analysis. He added that efforts are on to send important messages to entire population through Kaizala app.
The Chief Minister said that niegbouring States were locking horns for sake of five tmc ft of water, even after Apex court’s verdict. He claimed that the State government was using rain gauges to utilise the rain water and protected standing crop in one lakh hectares using rain guns. Referring to the massive plantation drive taken up in the State with an expenditure of Rs 50 crore, he vowed to protect saplings by introducing geo-tagging system.
Fibre Grid was set up with an expenditure of Rs 332 crore using electric poles and shortly, the government will provide 15 mbps internet, TV and telephone facility to each household for Rs 149. Plans are in place to facilitate the households to pay power and water bills from their houses itself, by providing ‘triple plug setoff boxes’,” he informed.
Naidu said with the utilization of IT on a large scale, the State has achieved a growth rate of 10.99 per cent last year and in the first quarter of current fiscal it was 12.26 per cent, when the country’s average growth rate was 7.5 per cent.
Earlier, special chief secretary to CM and IT advisor J A Chowdary, CEO of ANSR Consultancy Lalit Ahuja and UBS AG global head N T Arunkumar also spoke.
Minister for Human Resources Development Ganta Srinivasa Rao, MP Dr K Hari Babu, collector Praveen Kumar, Vuda vice chairman T Baburao Naidu and municipal commissioner M Harinarayanan were present.
