AP launches ‘Janma Bhoomi-Mavooru’ – campaign on govt schemes

Vijayawada : The Andhra Pradesh government today launched ‘Janma Bhoomi – Mavooru’ (My native place – My village), an intensified campaign to focus on welfare schemes across the state.

State Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu launched the campaign this morning at Bondapalli village in Vizianagaram district in the presence of his Cabinet colleagues and TDP legislators.

Focus area of the ‘Janmabhoomi- Maa Vooru’ (JBMV) programme is ‘Smart Village-Smart Ward (SVSW) towards Smart Andhra Pradesh’, Naidu had said.

“The third phase of JBMV will also see facilitating interaction of the partners of the smart Andhra Pradesh with government officials and community; sensitising the partners and community on 20 non-negotiable indicators of the smart Andhra Pradesh programme; sensitising the partners and community on baselines survey of the SVSW programme,” he had said.

The JBMV is also aimed at getting feedback on the implementation of development and welfare programmes and resolving the grievances.

Last year on January 1, Naidu had announced ‘Smart Village and Smart Ward’ and had appealed industrialists, social organisations, NRIs and villagers living in other ares to adopt one village or their birth place for its comprehensive development by providing funds.

Naidu has decided to felicitate such people who have adopted the villages and developing them with their own funds.

“These felicitations also would be held before 11th of this month, the last date of ‘Janma Bhoomi – Mavooru'”, an official release said.

PTI