Promise Tracker
TDP · Andhra Pradesh Assembly Election 2024 · Est. 1982
Sourcing Note
Promises are drawn from the official TDP-Jana Sena joint manifesto "Praja Galam" (Ummadi Manifesto 2024), released on 30 April 2024 and published on the Telugu Desam Party official website. This is a joint manifesto of the TDP-Jana Sena alliance; commitments are tracked here under the TDP as the governing party led by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu.
Telugu Desam Party (official website)Constitute a special commission to investigate and act against those the manifesto alleges were responsible for attacks on temples during the previous government's tenure.
Pursue accountability and prosecution of those the manifesto holds responsible for the deaths of Dr. Sudhakar, driver Subrahmanyam, Mantrubai and Dr. Achenna, which the manifesto attributes to the tenure of the previous government.
Pursue accountability and prosecution of those the manifesto holds responsible for the deaths of Backward Classes individuals it names - Thota Chandraiah, Amarnath Goud, Jallaiah Yadav and Pala Subbarao - which the manifesto attributes to the tenure of the previous government.
Take measures to fully implement in the state the initiatives under the Vision 2047 plan for building a Viksit Bharat.
Provide large incentives for setting up agriculture-produce-based industries to raise farmers' income and promote employment.
Restore Brand AP, attract large-scale domestic and foreign investment, and set up industries to raise state revenue and create jobs; under a new Industrial Policy, encourage modern technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Allocate at least Rs 15,000 crore over the next five years for Kapu welfare, in addition to general welfare schemes, and take measures for Kapu empowerment and development.
Strengthen the Brahmin Corporation and the Brahmin Cooperative Credit Society.
Allocate adequate funds to the Arya Vysya Corporation.
Allocate adequate funds to Kamma, Reddy, Velama and other upper-caste corporations and take measures for their empowerment and development.
Pay fees directly to colleges so students receive their certificates without difficulty.
Provide digital health cards to every citizen.
Complete government construction of pucca houses for those who have already received sanctioned house pattas.
Allot 2 cents of land in towns and 3 cents in villages for house construction.
Develop Visakhapatnam as a financial capital.
Name the Bhogapuram airport as Alluri Sitarama Raju Airport.
Reduce household electricity bills by linking with the central government's rooftop solar power scheme and purchasing surplus power from the public.
Control liquor prices and ban toxic liquor brands.
Conduct a state-wide skill census and use it to raise people's skill levels.
Provide 20 lakh jobs for youth over five years and a Rs 3,000 per month unemployment allowance to the unemployed.
Immediately set up a High Court bench in Kurnool.
Pay gratuity to Anganwadi workers in line with the Supreme Court judgment, and take measures to raise the minimum wage for ASHA workers.
Take up organic / Zero Budget Natural Farming on 1000 acres in each parliamentary constituency, with financial, cultivation and marketing support.
Issue identity cards to tenant farmers, extend all welfare schemes to them, and provide crop insurance.
Provide a 90 percent subsidy for drip irrigation.
Establish a railway zone headquartered at Visakhapatnam and allocate suitable land immediately to realize it.
Implement Public, Private and People's Partnership (P4) schemes aimed at making the poor prosperous.
Continue construction of the people's capital Amaravati while developing all regions.
Protect the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant.
Provide 3 free gas cylinders per year to every household.
Take strong measures to rapidly increase the state's gross domestic product.
Provide a subsidy of up to Rs 10 lakh on project cost for small and medium industries and startups (Soubhagya Patham).
Provide protected drinking water with a tap connection to every household.
Provide free bus travel for women.
Provide Rs 1,500 per month to every woman aged 19 to 59.
Provide Rs 20,000 per year in financial assistance to every farmer.
Provide Rs 15,000 per year to every school-going child, credited to the mother.
Reimburse GST on handloom products and provide 200 free electricity units per month to handloom weavers and 500 units to powerloom weavers.
Issue a Mega DSC notification and release a job calendar every year.
Spend Rs 10,000 crore in the budget on self-employment for Backward Classes.
Provide proportionate funding to Backward Classes corporations.
Ensure political participation through nominations for communities with small populations that cannot contest elections.
Pass a resolution for 33% reservation for Backward Classes in legislatures and send it to the Centre.
Provide 34% reservation for Backward Classes in local bodies and nominated posts.
Spend Rs 1.5 lakh crore through a Backward Classes sub-plan in the budget.
Enact a special law for the protection of Backward Classes.
Provide a Rs 4,000 per month pension to Backward Classes from the age of 50.
Establish a new corporation for the development of the goldsmith (Swarnakara) community.
Provide financial assistance to fishermen for boat repairs and modern communication equipment.
Provide Rs 20,000 financial assistance to fishermen during the sea fishing-ban period and cancel Government Order (GO) 217.
Encourage construction of dhobi ghats for the Rajaka (washermen) community and provide a subsidy on electricity charges.
Provide 15 percent reservation in quarries for the Vaddera community and exempt them from royalty and seigniorage charges.
Allocate 10 percent of liquor shops to Geetha (toddy-tapper) workers.
Restore the festival-gift and wedding-gift (kanuka) schemes.
Provide loans to female students through the 'Kalalaku Rekkalu' (Wings to Dreams) scheme.
Provide hostel accommodation for working women.
Take measures to economically empower women through a special scheme under the P4 model.
Increase interest-free loans to women's Self-Help Groups from Rs 3 lakh to Rs 10 lakh.
Take measures to re-appoint Gopala Mitras (dairy and cattle helpers).
Provide subsidies on cattle, feed and medicine purchases; insurance cover; establishment of Gokulams (cattle centres); and allocation of barren land for grazing and fodder.
Increase the honorarium for volunteers from Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000 per month.
Extend government welfare schemes to low-paid outsourcing, contract and consolidated employees.
Pay salaries and pensions to state employees and pensioners on the 1st of every month, arrange to clear pending dues, and take steps to establish a Pensioners Corporation.
Implement a better Pay Revision Commission (PRC), reconsider allowance payments, and announce Interim Relief (IR) for government employees as soon as the coalition government takes office.
Review the Contributory/Guaranteed Pension Scheme (CPS/GPS) policy and work towards an acceptable solution.
Restore the dignity of government employees and teachers and take measures to ensure a fully favourable working environment.
Conduct the Kanyaka Parameshwari Ammavari self-sacrifice day (Atmarpana Dinotsavam) as an official programme.
Take strong measures to enable business operations in a free environment.
Provide an interest-free loan facility for small traders.
Rapidly complete the construction of Kapu community buildings (bhavans).
Give priority to skill development and self-employment for Kapu youth and women.
Increase the current honorarium for all local-body representatives from sarpanches to ZP chairpersons.
Allocate 5 percent of the budget for Panchayati Raj project proposals and increase it to 10 percent over five years.
Set up a vision for development through the Panchayati Raj system.
Restore the Panchayati Raj system to its former strength and boost local governance.
Directly transfer Finance Commission funds to panchayats.
Take measures to implement Mission Rayalaseema as announced during the Yuvagalam yatra.
Connect the Chennai-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor to key Rayalaseema towns and develop it as an industrial cluster.
Bring more industries such as Kia and Isuzu and develop Rayalaseema as an automobile hub.
Develop Rayalaseema as a horticulture hub and a seed capital.
Give priority to drinking water, irrigation, education and medical facilities in Rayalaseema.
Take measures to construct the Kotipalli-Narsapur railway line.
Take measures to stabilize the prices of cashew and coconut.
Connect major areas via the Vizag-Chennai Industrial Corridor to enable industrialization.
Restore law and order and give it the highest priority.
Strengthen administrative systems and provide good governance.
Take measures to sell AgriGold assets and ensure the proceeds reach the victims.
Develop court infrastructure, set up legal kiosks for free legal aid, provide a Rs 10,000 per month stipend to junior lawyers, and establish a special training academy for junior lawyers.
Provide a free house site to every accredited journalist.
Set up wildlife, adventure, heritage, eco and temple tourism circuits across the state and promote employment.
Implement strong policies for faster, comprehensive economic development that creates opportunities for the poor, and use the resulting wealth creation to strengthen broad welfare implementation.
Set up 5,000-tonne cold storages in districts that need them, supply power at Rs 1.50 per unit in all zones, reduce transformer prices, and provide aerators on subsidy.
Take strict measures within 100 days to eradicate ganja, drugs and narcotics, and bring stricter laws if needed.
Provide a Rs 3,000 unemployment allowance under Yuvagalam to unemployed persons who have studied Vedic education.
Build a facility in each constituency for Brahmins to perform apara karma (funeral rites).
Appoint a Brahmin, alongside a priest, as a trust board member in all temples including Tirupati.
Recognize purohits and cook-Brahmins as a traditional caste occupation.
Restore historical structures such as the Thousand-Pillar Mandapam, foundational to the sanctity of holy sites like Tirupati and Ontimitta.
Grant temples full autonomy in Vedic and Agama Shastra matters.
Raise the minimum wage to Rs 15,000 for archakas in temples with annual income above Rs 50,000, and raise the Dhupa-Deepa-Naivedyam amount from Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000 per month for archakas in temples with annual income below Rs 50,000.
Ensure a minimum wage for archakas (priests) working in private temples.
Set up a Hindu Endowment Board to protect the properties of Hindu temples and choultries.
Set up work-from-home work stations in every mandal and district headquarters.
Rapidly build ports, airports and railway projects.
Develop social infrastructure across the state.
Build roads from villages to mandal headquarters and district headquarters.
Restore the Dr. Ambedkar Overseas Education scheme.
Cancel GO 117, which was associated with the closure of many schools, and reopen the closed schools.
Review the KG-to-PG syllabus.
Distribute generic medicines free of cost for non-communicable diseases such as high blood pressure and diabetes.
Set up Jan Aushadhi (generic medicine) centres in all mandal headquarters.
Provide Rs 25 lakh health insurance to every family in the state.
Implement a comprehensive sand policy that keeps sand available and affordable for ordinary people.
Restore fee reimbursement for students in aided colleges and private PG courses.
Review the ration distribution system and strengthen the supply chain.
Set up Anna Canteens to feed the poor, in the spirit of Dokka Seethamma.
Set up a special board for the welfare of sanitation workers.
Restore the Building and Construction Workers Welfare Board.
Restore the Chandranna Bima insurance scheme (Rs 5 lakh for natural death and Rs 10 lakh for accidental death) and extend it to all unorganised-sector workers.
Reduce the increased green tax on vehicles.
Cancel GO 21 and reduce the burden of traffic fines.
Provide Rs 15,000 per year to every badged auto and taxi driver and every heavy-licence lorry and tipper driver.
Set up a Driver Empowerment Corporation providing accident insurance, health insurance and education loans to drivers of all categories, and - to help drivers become owners - subsidise interest above 5 percent on vehicle-purchase loans up to Rs 4 lakh.
Control petrol and diesel prices.
Abolish the garbage tax and review house taxes.
Complete pending irrigation projects in Rayalaseema and Uttarandhra.
Link the state's rivers and provide water to every acre.
Take measures for faster construction of projects such as Galeru-Nagari, Handri-Neeva, Uttarandhra Sujala Sravanti, the Thotapalli reservoir, and the Vamsadhara-Nagavali river link.
Rapidly complete the Polavaram project.
Repeal the Land Titling Act and provide protection for people's properties.
Promote sericulture to support farmers and create employment in rural areas.
Strictly implement the APMC Act to curb exploitation by middlemen.
Modernize public-sector warehouses and cold-storage units and set up new units.
Establish a corporation for farm labourers and implement subsidies and welfare schemes for them.
Set up a price stabilization fund.
Provide agricultural equipment on subsidy.
Provide subsidized solar pumpsets and have the government purchase surplus power.
Supply 9 hours of quality free power to agriculture.
Fill the backlog of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe posts.
Restore Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe welfare schemes that had been discontinued.
Appoint tribal teachers in Agency (scheduled) areas and restore Government Order (GO) 3.
Spend sub-plan funds exclusively on the development of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
Sanction pension to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes from the age of 50.
Implement district-wise sub-categorization for Scheduled Castes.
Provide a Rs 10,000 per month pension to those with chronic illnesses such as kidney disease and thalassemia.
Provide a Rs 15,000 per month pension to persons with full or severe disability.
Increase the pension for persons with disabilities to Rs 6,000.
Increase social security pensions from Rs 3,000 to Rs 4,000, effective April 2024.
Provide assistance to pilgrims travelling to Jerusalem.
Allocate land for cemeteries and burial grounds.
Provide financial aid for the construction and renovation of churches.
Set up a Christian Missionaries Properties Development Board.
Provide Rs 5,000 per month for mosque maintenance and Rs 1 lakh assistance to each Muslim going on the Haj pilgrimage.
Appoint qualified Imams as government Qazis.
Provide monthly honoraria of Rs 10,000 and Rs 5,000 to Imams and Mauzams.
Set up a Noorbasha Corporation with Rs 100 crore allocated annually, and provide interest-free loans up to Rs 5 lakh through the Minority Finance Corporation.
Allocate land for Eidgahs and Khabristans in major towns, and construct a Haj House near Vijayawada.
Provide pension to Muslim minorities from the age of 50.
Set up a special corporation to work for the welfare of ex-servicemen and resolve their problems.
Allocate 5 acres in Amaravati for an Alluri Sitarama Raju memorial garden (Smruthivanam).
