Naidu asks dist collectors to complete loss assessment task

Reviewing the progress of relief and rehabilitation in rain-hit areas, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today instructed collectors of the affected districts to complete enumeration of losses by tomorrow.
After this, the state government will submit a report to the Centre seeking funds for relief and rehabilitation.
Naidu met district collectors and other officials where he reviewed progress of the relief and rehabilitation in their concerned areas (affected by rains), an official release said.
The CM has directed officers to complete enumeration of losses by tomorrow evening. He enquired on the losses for agriculture, horticulture, dairy, fisheries, animal husbandry, roads and buildings and damages for houses, it said.

Naidu also instructed them to provide relief materials to those who lost their ration cards from the rain-affected areas and not insist to produce ration cards from the poor, it added.
He in particular instructed Medical and Health department to take more precautions on sanitation and otherwise he warned that diseases may spread in flood affected areas.

Naidu said initiatives like Swayam, an online platform
that provides courses that are taught at universities and Swayam Prabha -- a project to telecast high quality educational content over DTH channels, will help break the physical barriers of access to quality education.
He said that corruption is a barrier in achieving the vision of inclusive development and anonymity aids corruption and generation of black money.

"A digital economy brings accountability and transparency to financial transactions, thereby reducing the avenues for corruption. Students and youth like you play a critical role in the transformation of our economy into a digital economy," he added.
The government launched a programme called Visaka, a campaign by students of higher educational institutions for promoting digital economy, more than 1.70 lakh students have registered as volunteers in just a month's time, the minister said.