Southern States - Andhra Pradesh

Incentives for performance : Naidu

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD MAY 6 . The Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, today announced a policy under which non-performance by officials would be penalised and incentives given to those achieving designated targets.

All departments would be given full freedom to appoint the `right man in the right post' after analysing his performance and verifying his past record. Professional consultants would be engaged to lay down the performance parameters.

Mr. Naidu was addressing a press conference where he released the comparative achievements of various revenue-earning departments and their district-wise performances. Warangal (104 per cent), Karimnagar (100 per cent), Rangareddy (98.53 per cent) were the best performers in tax collection while Nalgonda, Khammam and Srikakulam stood at the bottom with about 84 per cent collection each.

The Chief Minister said that problems like closure of sick units (such as cement and ferro-alloys industries) would be taken into consideration while assessing the officials' performance. As for revenue-spending departments, the Government would fix monthly targets to achieve growth indicators or social indicators as the case may be. He saw no reason why an official, say in excise or Commercial Taxes Department, should do poorly while another in the same cadre but in a different district performed well. He said proper solutions would be arrived at and incompetent officials sidelined or placed in desk jobs, never mind if the Government had to pay to keep him idle. He lauded the Warangal District Educational Officer who took up his work as a mission and improved the pass percentage in SSC from 45 to 83 per cent this year.

The Chief Minister said the total revenue realisation last year was Rs. 11,721.32 crores against the target of Rs. 12,637.92 crores. He attributed the shortfall in the target to the slump in the industry which, he said, was a global phenomenon.

For the current fiscal, the target had been revised to Rs. 13,594 crores with commercial taxes estimated to contribute Rs. 8,803 crores, excise Rs. 1,903 crores, transport Rs. 1065 crores and stamps & registration Rs. 896 crores. He said 20 per cent of the departments were contributing 80 per cent to the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP).

Expressing satisfaction at the overall performance of the revenue-earning departments vis-a-vis other States, he said commercial taxes had been higher than the average growth rate of any other southern state during 2000-01.

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