Jayaprakash Narayana

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JayaPrakashNarayan joined public administration after making it to I.A.S. in 1980 standing all India topper[Rank 2]. He worked on agriculture, irrigation, technology and youth rehabilitation projects in various capacities and in various districts of Andhra Pradesh. Some of his achievements during his 16-year-long career in government include:

• rehabilitation of 8,000 youth from displaced families of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant;
• designed the reconstruction of drainage and irrigation network in Krishna, [Prakasam] and Godavari deltas. He successfully mobilized the farmers on a large scale to take up irrigation schemes to bring more than two lakh acres under irrigation;
• strengthened the credit cooperatives by making them independent of government control;
• served as a Secretary to both the Governor and the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh N. T. Rama Rao.

He also has several major policy initiatives to his credit.

• Empowerment of parents in schools.
• Economic reforms and restructuring of AP.
• Development of the Infocity HITEC City (Hyderabad Information Technology Engineering Consultancy City) in Hyderabad to facilitate the growth of the software industry.
• Empowerment of local governments and stakeholders.
• Law for self-reliant cooperatives (1995).

 

Narayan has served on the following panels:

• the National Advisory Council (NAC) for the implementation of the National Common Minimum Programme (CMP), July 2004 through August 2006
• Vigilance Advisory Council, constituted by the Central Vigilance Commission, November 2004

• Second Administrative Reforms Commission constituted by the Government of India in September 2005
• National Rural Health Mission of India Task Force, 2005 to 2007.

 

Andhra Pradesh 13th Assembly

Narayan is one of the local leaders in assembly proceedings. Some of the major contributions to Andhra Pradesh 13th assembly are:

• proposed the Anti Corruption Bill to amend the State's Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, to curb corruption in the state by including elected members under civil servants.
• advanced all party resolution to elect deputy speaker from opposition;
• opposed amendment to Andhra Pradesh Societies Act claiming that it is against the right to form unions as per the Constitution;
• opposed populist schemes in 2010, 2010 and 2011 Andhra Pradesh Budgets.
• pressed the need for gas grid and industrial development;
• condemned the demolition of statues on Tankbund;
• demanded investigation into land and natural resource allocation scams and provided evidences.