Re: Naidu calls for reforms with broad human face...

Thanks Chandu. It's a very nice article.

 

Damodar

Chandu Sambasiva Rao <srchandu@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Folks,

One of our members sent me this interesting piece. I think the
challenge for any leader is how best to support the needy and achieve
overall development at the same time. No easy task. I tend to support
CBN's take on this. I want to know what the group thinks?

Regards,
Chandu


Naidu calls for reforms with broad human face to ensure development
Bhubaneswar | November 09, 2005 12:32:14 AM IST
(Reported by UNI DP PC AKP2222)


Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today called
for reforms to achieve a 10 per cent growth rate in the economy.

Addressing the 73rd birth anniversary of Pradumna Bal organised by the
Pradyumna Bal Memorial Trust, Mr Naidu said apart from the economic
reform the country also needed reforms in other areas with broad human
face to ensure an overall development.

"What we required at this hour is a qualitative leadership associated
with value based political reform, productive economic reform,
accountable administrative reform, healthy labour reform and the
judicial reform," he said adding that all these reforms together could
achieve a 10 per cent growth rate.

Mr Naidu said the developing countries have becom more and more
competitive and posed a challenge to the highly developed nations like
America, Britain and other Western European countries.

Quoting a recent TIME magazine survey, the Telgu Desam Party supremo
said in another decade there would be only three super powers in the
world- United States, China and India.

"It is an acknowledged fact that the future of the world belonged to
BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries," Mr Naidu remarked.

He said mobilisation of wealth should be the prime objective without
which we could not distribute it to the needy or improve the condition
of the poor.

He said this was a time to network the brilliant brains which we once
thought had been drained from this country and harness them for our
development.

Mr Naidu said the most cherished dream of all of us should be to build
India an economic structure that fulfilled the dual purpose of lifting
the curse of poverty, disease and unemployment on one hand and ensure a
powerful technological civilization and industrial culture on the other
hand.

Paying his homage, the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister said Mr Bal
was popularly known as young turk in politics in the company of former
Prime Ministers- Chandra Sekhar and I K Gujral- who had fought
ideological battle and opposed emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi even
though he was in Congress.

He described Mr Bal, a journalist of eminence, great champion of
environmental protection and a crusader against injustice, corruption
and exploitation of common people.

Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and noted Cricket Commentator
Harsha Bhogle also spoke to the occasion while well known educationist
Chittranjan Das presided the function.