Babu sees survival of the fittest in Andhra evolution

In the Evolution of Andhra Pradesh, survival of the fittest is the only answer, Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu told the District Collectors conference that opened in Vijayawada on Monday morning. Despite lack of resources, the State had maintained a double-digit growth so far. Unless this pace was maintained, the survival of the State would be at stake, he told the collectors. In these extrordinary circumstances (survival), the administration should be at its fittest to survive, Chandrababu said. Survival of the fittest was an idea that the bureaucracy carefully listened to. If the same criterion was extended to the public domain, what would be the fate of the people who are putting up with so many denials such as lack of capital, lack of a secretariat, pooling of their precious lands, lack of adequate compensation and so on. The Darwininan principle should apply to politicians as well. They should be made to make sacrifices such as not to make a fast buck out of insider trading by changing capital road alignments, favouring land sharks, protecting call money racketeers and so on.