Vanitha‘s assurance to strengthen police dept

By Our Special Correspondent

Taneti Vanitha assumed office as minister for home at the Secretariat on Monday. After formally taking responsibilities as minister, Vanitha told the media that she will strive to provide a people-friendly policing and make sure the police respond to people's issues without any delay. The home minister said all measures would be taken to curb the atrocities and harassment of women in the state. Health minister, the youngest member of the Jagan Mohan Reddy Cabinet, Vidadala Rajini also took charge. Before taking charge of the ministry, special pujas were conducted for her.

Addressing the media persons on the occasion, she said Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy had made the medical sector in the state number 1 in the entire country. Stating that the state government is providing better healthcare to the poor, she promised to work towards taking the healthcare sector to a notch higher. The minister said infrastructure in government hospitals would be improved under Nadu-Nedu.

She maintained that the programme has been deferred as data is needed on how many of the five schemes each house is getting. Secretariats concerned are yet to compile this data. Once the data is available. YSRPC will launch the Gadapa propgramme she started.