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Naidu became the brand ambassador of Araku products when he was Chief Minister and came up with a novel way of promoting Araku Coffee and the Araku Valley in Visakhapatnam. The coffee produced at Araku has a history dating to the 18th century. In 1898, the British introduced coffee to the East Godavari district in Pamuluru before it spread to Araku in the early 19th century. After independence, the Andhra Pradesh Forest Department took up coffee plantations in the valley and by 1956, the Coffee Board of India appointed Girijan Cooperative Corporation (GCC) for its promotion through local tribal farmers. In a significant development, the Naidu Government and SpiceJet, the third largest airline in the country by number of domestic passengers carried, came forward to serve the organic brew of Araku to its passengers. SpiceJet air hostesses would make special announcements about the brand and its significance, and about the coffee plantations in Araku Valley. To increase visits to tourist places located around Araku Valley, a scheme of scratch cards was introduced. Cards would be given to every passenger and two lucky passengers, along with their families, would receive free accommodation in Araku Valley and the tourism department would pay to the airline towards promotion of Araku Coffee. The brand became so popular and exotic that Naidu gifted them to Korean and Russian delegates during their visits and the coffee was marketed in all the international investor meetings organised by the state. Naidu once said that Araku Valley’s tribal coffee is competing with Columbian and Sumatran coffee in the international market. Large-scale procurement and dedicated promotion of Araku coffee are creating employment opportunities for tribal youth. The coffee production became a pet project of Naidu and promised to ramp up coffee cultivation by additional 100,000 acres of pesticide-free plantations with boosting the income levels of tribal farmers in the valley. while it is planned to launch the next set of retail stores in New York and Tokyo and under its own brand name “araku COFFEE” have already launched its first retail store in the Le Marais, Paris.

Naidu was born on 20 April 1950 at Naravaripalle, Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh in an agricultural family. His father, Nara Kharjura Naidu, worked in agriculture and his mother, Amanamma, was a housewife. Since his village had no school, Naidu attended primary school in Seshapuram up to class five and the Chandragiri Government High School up to class nine. He went to Tirupati for his higher education, studying there from class 10 until he received his master’s degree. Naidu completed his BA degree in 1972.

Nara Chandrababu Naidu( listen ) (born 20 April 1950), is an Indian politician and the leader of opposition in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He is a former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, serving from 2014 to 2019. He was the first Chief Minister of the state after it was divided. Previously, he served as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh from 1995 to 2004, before the state’s division, and as the leader of the opposition in the United Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly from 2004 to 2014. He is the National President of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), and the longest-serving Chief Minister (14 years in office) of Andhra Pradesh.

Naidu was drawn to politics at an early age, and joined the Indian Youth Congress as a student leader in Chandragiri, near Tirupati in Chittoor district. After the emergency was imposed on the country in 1975, he became a close supporter of the Indian Youth Congress president, Sanjay Gandhi.

Naidu became a Congress (I) member of the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly (MLA) for Chandragiri constituency in 1978. The party’s 20% quota for youth to run for the office was beneficial for him. Not long afterwards, Naidu was appointed as the technical education and cinematography minister in T. Anjaiah’s government at the age of 28. He was the youngest minister in the Congress (I) cabinet.

As the cinematography minister, Naidu came in contact with N. T. Rama Rao, a popular film star in Telugu cinema. In 1980, he married Bhuvaneswari, Rao’s second daughter

In 1982, N. T. Rama Rao formed the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and swept the assembly polls held in 1983. Naidu, who was then still in the INC, was defeated by a TDP candidate in Chandragiri. He joined the TDP soon after.

Naidu showed his political skills in August 1984, when Nadendla Bhaskara Rao staged a coup against N. T. Rama Rao. He rallied the TDP MLAs together and paraded them before the President of India. N. T. Rama Rao was reinstated as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh 31 days later. Impressed with his son-in-law’s manoeuvre, Rao appointed Naidu as the General Secretary of the party and he began playing an important role in the TDP after Nadendla Rao’s coup attempt. Later, when N. T. Rama Rao married Lakshmi Parvathi, Naidu took over the TDP legislative party predicting the problems in the party and became the Chief Minister of united Andhra Pradesh.

In the 1989 assembly election, Naidu contested from Kuppam and won by 5,000 votes. INC, however, had regained power in the election so Naidu had to sit in the opposition. He served as a coordinator of the TDP, in which capacity he effectively handled the party’s role of the main opposition in the assembly which won him wide appreciation from both the party and the public. Naidu’s role during this phase, both inside the Legislative Assembly and outside, was a critical factor for the subsequent success of the party at the hustings.

The Heritage Group (HFL) was incorporated by Naidu in 1992. In 1994, HFL went for public issue to raise resources. It was oversubscribed by 54 times. Its shares are listed under the B1 Category on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) (Stock Code: 519552), and National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) (Stock Code: HERITGFOOD). Currently, the organisation is being led by Nara Brahmini, Naidus’ daughter-in-law. Heritage has hundreds of outlets all across Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and a significant presence in Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Odisha, NCR-Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, and Himachal Pradesh which comprises a solid portion of Naidu’s current assets.

In 1992-94, the Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Board (APSEB) had an operating deficit and a decline in financial position because of adverse change in Hydro-thermal mix and higher growth in consumption of electricity by agriculture and domestic consumers compared to industries. The government promoted private finances in the power sector to bring efficient conditions in terms of cost and quality to support the economic development of the state and to reach world class levels in 3 to 5 years. This privatisation of power sector increased the states’ power tariff rate and opposition parties made several heated protests with political demonstrations, but Naidu has managed to ride out this storm, and remained in control of the party and state while remaining committed to the reform program.

In 1995-1996, the Singareni Collieries coal mining company under the control of the state and federal government had devastating losses and came close to closure. Naidu put efforts into restoring the company and introduced technological security measures for miners and fixed the ability of the management team with IAS A. P. V. N. Sarma as the C&MD. They were promised a share of 10% in profits and bonuses, plus medical healthcare and insurance policy to the coal mining employees and their families. After years of combined work, in 2001, the coal company earned high profits.

On 1 September 1995, Naidu came to power as the Chief Minister by revolting against N.T. Rama Rao. In the last interview, with Reuters, N. T. Rama Rao compared himself to Shah Jahan, a 17th-century Mughal emperor who was imprisoned by his son, and predicted that he would gain his revenge against what he called “the backstabbers” in his family, especially his son-in-law and successor, Naidu.

To achieve the desired growth trajectory and to leapfrog toward an information society, the state required heavy investment in premium Infrastructure for global connectivity. Therefore, in 1996, the Naidu Government initiated the construction of a new greenfield international airport at Shamshabad, 21 km southwest of Hyderabad’s city centre. To promote the planned development of the area around the international airport, the Naidu Government declared a special development area and called it as Hyderabad Airport Development Authority (HADA). HADA covers around 458 km2 in the south-western periphery of the Metropolitan. The master plan of HADA prepared in 2003 covering 458 square kilometres for the promotion of an International Airport surrounding with ancillary economic activities such as a cargo hub, aviation engineering hub, free trade zone, luxury hotels, residential apartments, and other additional services to make the enclave a growth centre. The region is being connected to the core of the city by radial roads and by an expressway link to Cyberabad. A Hyderabad Metro train link has also been proposed and the construction is underway. As part of the first phase of development, the international airport has been completed and inaugurated in March 2008 along with a luxury hotel. The second phase of development includes Cargo complexes and industrial zones.

Naidu launched the Janmabhoomi (birth place) Programme in February 1996. The main aim was to involve people in the reconstruction and revitalisation of the society. The programme works at a micro level, planning to identify people-represented problems through Gram Sabha discussions by regional officers, especially in villages, and to send project proposals for the government to work on. The core concentrated areas are community work, primary school education, drinking water, health and hospitals, family welfare, and environmental protection through watershed and joint forest management activities.

The initial idea to develop an international airport in Vizag began when Naidu was Chief minister of Andhra Pradesh in January 1997, then his Government announced its proposal to setup the international airport with the help of private participation at a cost of Rs. 5 billion, aiming to make Visakhapatnam airport the primary gateway to eastern India and southeast Asia. The plan is a part of making Vizag an “International City” and the state’s tourism hub. The proposal to build the international airport is part of his Vision 2020 as per which two new international airports are proposed, Shamshabad International Airport and Visakhapatnam Airport. After returning in 2014 his government acquired 2,703 acres of land, but it required four years due to land owner disputes and acquisition at Bhogapuram, Vizianagaram and Naidu laid the foundation for a new greenfield international airport for Visakhapatnam in February 2019 and said the Bhogapuram international Airport would boost the economic development of northern coastal districts and a world-class airport is needed for the promotion of IT and tourism in Vizag. While the airport developed under PPP (Public-Private Partnership) mode also will be integrated with Aerocity, a Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) facility and an Aviation Academy and Naidu assigned bid to GMR group, the same infrastructure company he assigned bid to build and operate the Shamshabad International Airport at Hyderabad in 2002. The current Visakhapatnam international Airport is a naval airfield belonging to the Eastern Naval Command, which proposed separate flying slots for civil and military flights at city airport. And Naidu strongly opposed proposed military constraints on the airport as this may slow the development of Brand Vizag city. The new civilian international airport estimated to be completed by 2023 will replace the existing Indian Navy airport.

From 1997 onward, the ‘Clean and Green Campaign’ was initiated where school students and teachers participated in institutional and household plantation with government employees. A total of 46 million trees in the Telangana and Andhra Pradesh state were planted. About 3,906,835 people participated in sanitation work, with 1,438,850 persons engaged to remove garbage and 40,921,447 people participated in health awareness rallies. The Naidu idea was to make every habitation and municipal ward ‘clean and green’ and was one of the largest and most successful events organised by his government.

Naidu played a crucial role in reshaping Hyderabad as a world class happening city with global recognition. In November 1998, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Chandrababu Naidu inaugurated the HITEC City by opening the iconic ‘Cyber Towers’, a landmark building in IT Hyderabad. In anticipation of the growth of technology in the future, his government mainly concentrated on providing planned trunk infrastructure, be it buildings, roads, safety and resilience, transportation, telecommunications, IT parks and five-star hotels for the delegates meetings and accommodation and the HITEX International Convention and Exhibition Center

The Telugu Desam Party, led by Naidu, won a majority in the state legislature: 185 of 294 seats in the Assembly and 29 of 42 at the parliament in the 1999 general election, making it the second-largest party in the BJP-led NDA coalition government.

In 1999, Naidu produced a vision statement called “Andhra Pradesh Vision 2020” that outlined various goals and objectives to be achieved by 2020. It was prepared in collaboration with US consultants, McKinsey & Company, who proposed the following:

Rythu Bazaar was launched by Naidu on 26 January 1999 with the objective to control the skyrocketing prices of fruits and vegetables. Under this program, farmers were encouraged to sell their produce directly to the consumers and in the process, eliminate the middleman. In the first phase itself, the program succeeded and reached various towns. Prices were down by 70 to 75 percent, and it benefited both the farmers and the direct consumers.

His government started the “self help groups” (SHG) such as water user associations, Vanasamrakshana Samities, Rythu Mithra Groups, CMEY Groups, School Education Committees, and promoted the ‘Development of Women and Children in Rural Areas’ (DWCRA) where each group had 15-20 female members and chose a leader who conducted group meetings. The main purpose was to offer microfinance through government and bank-linkage that would help rural women to start income generating activities, know about their rights, and the importance of education. The Naidu government distributed two lakh (two-hundred-thousand) bicycles to the girls who joined the government high schools as part of women empowerment initiative and launched the Deepam scheme in 1999 to reduce dependence on forest firewood, and to provide gas connections to poor rural members of the DWCRA groups and families below the poverty line.

In 2000, Naidu Government declared a special development area, surrounding the Hussain Sagar Lake with covering the area of 900 hectares (SDA) was formed for the purposes of tourism, eco-tourism, and theme park development. This special purpose authority has been named as Buddha Purnima Project Authority (BPPA). The Authority under urban landscape development has identified seven major tourism development pockets for beautification and enhancement around the Hussain Sagar Lake. These selections of development included such projects as the creation of NTR Memorial and Gardens, Lumbini Park, Laserium a laser show project, Necklace Road, Peoples Plaza have become star attractions of the twin cities for both local and nonlocal tourists.

In 2000, both Bill Clinton (President of the United States ) and Tony Blair (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) visited Hyderabad and met with Naidu. Bobby Ghosh of the American news magazine, Time commented, “In just five years, he has turned an impoverished, rural backwater place into India’s new information-technology hub”, and the magazine named Naidu, ‘South Asian of the Year’.

In the year 2000, the Naidu government, under the Neeru-Meeru (Water and You) programme, started gully sunken pits (or) Inki Guntalu, for harvesting rainwater in farm fields that were built with a low cost of Rs 500 to Rs 800. The water conversion mission allow deeper percolation of water, with the twin purposes of checking erosion control in gullies and of increasing ground water reservoir.

Naidu has won a number of awards, including IT Indian of the Millennium from India Today, Business Person of the Year by The Economic Times, South Asian of the Year from Time Asia and membership in the World Economic Forum’s Dream Cabinet Naidu chaired the National IT Panel under the National Democratic Alliance (India) (NDA) government and was described as one of the “hidden seven”, working wonders around the world, by Profit (Oracle Corporation’s monthly magazine). Naidu was offered an honorary professorship by US business school – the Kellogg School of Management in 2000. He was the Chairman of National Task Force on Micro-irrigation from Government of India, Ministry of Agriculture in 2003. He was the head of 13-member Committee of Chief Ministers to promote digital payment systems and financial inclusion in India which was constituted by federal government in 2016.

With the intention of bringing e-governance to the citizens, Naidu launched e-Seva centers in 2001 for paperless and speedy delivery of results to applicants. These e-Seva centers were one-stop solutions providing all government information and services online such as utility bills, banking services, issuing birth and death certificates, written test for drivers licence, government orders, and APSRTC tours and travel operators booking. The government introduced an outsourcing employee system where government related services are done under a contract agreement and after a certain time, they are declared as permanent government employees.

In August, 2002 the Naidu inaugurated the INS Kursura Museum at RK Beach and was converted into a submarine museum by his government which played a pivotal role in the 1971 Indo-Pak war that has served the nation for 31 glorious years. It was the first submarine in Asia to be converted into a museum and the second in the world. In 2017, Naidu laid foundation for the TU 142 Aircraft Museum and its constructed in the same beach road located just across the INS kursura and described as a deepavali festival gift to the people of the visakhapatnam city. And also Naidu has sent another proposal to the Defence Ministry to develop INS Viraat Aircraft carrier as the Tourism Center in Visakhapatnam after the ship decommission and the Indian Navy has agreed to hand over INS Viraat to the Government of Andhra Pradesh.

Naidu took the initiative to select K. R. Narayanan from the Dalit community as President of india. In 2002 Vajpayee then hoped to give the post of President to the Muslims. Naidu at the time played a leading role in National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and proposed the name of eminent scientist A. P. J. Abdul Kalam as its presidential candidature as Kalam pursued as scientist that the president would be an inspiration to the younger generation. Naidu as kingmaker appealed to the opposition congress, the left and other national and state parties to support the kalam candidature at this crucial juncture after the 2002 Gujarat riots happened in Narendra Modi government where the nation is at war like situation and can send right signals to international community and within the country with the support of Abdul kalam from muslim community. Naidu described the Dr kalam as the nation’s pride and the best choice besides making an outstanding contribution in the field of science and technology and said he was humble, patriotic and non-political personality. Naidu was instrumental in Krishan Kant, then governor of Andhra Pradesh elevation to the vice-president’s post in July 1997 when the United Front was in power at the Centre and Naidu was the UF convenor.

According to several national and international survey reports has mentioned that Hyderabad became a IT Hotspot of India in 2002 and Hyderabad became ranked number one in the city competitiveness compared of major cities in India to attract businesses. The economic reforms and new policy initiatives taken by the Naidu Government in creating HITEC City provided a boost to Hyderabad’s urbanisation and with big tech industry jobs in hand has increased consumer purchasing power that leads to spawned massive developments of real estate gated residential apartments, food and restaurants, intelligent business offices, cinema, and shopping malls around the city area and Naidu efforts instrumented HITEC City as India’s first and largest cyber city while today Cyberabad is one of the biggest technological revolutions of Hyderabad which emerged as the backbone of Telangana state’s economy.

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