N. Chandrababu Naidu is an Indian politician who served as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh for three terms retrospectively recognized as two terms for the erstwhile United Andhra Pradesh and one term for the bifurcated state of Andhra Pradesh.
His first term began on 1 September 1995 to end on 11 October 1999. He was sworn in by the then Governor of United Andhra Pradesh Krishan Kant. His second term began from 11 October 1999 to end on 13 May 2004, sworn in by the then governor C. Rangarajan. Later after 10 years, his third term started from 8 June 2014 to end on 29 May 2019 to serve as the chief minister of the bifurcated Andhra Pradesh where he was sworn in by the then unified governor of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana E. S. L. Narasimhan.
The chief ministership of Naidu during the three terms focused on the Information-technology, innovation and bio-technology sectors paving way to economic reforms and liberalisation rather than welfare oriented governance along with slightest focus on agriculture and irrigation emphasizing the integration of technology and agriculture in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
Government formation
On 1 September 1995, Naidu took over as CM, and had stayed the chief of Telugu Desam Party since after a political coup against his father in law N. T. Rama Rao. He formed his first government with a 11-member cabinet along with the support of nearly 150 MLAs'. Later in the year 1999 Naidu the formed the government again by sweeping the polls with 180 seats in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly. A 9-member cabinet was initially constituted and later expanded it 35 by inducting another 26 ministers into the cabinet. In the subsequent elections 2004 and 2009, Naidu's led TDP lost decisively restricting itself to 47 and 92 seats respectively.
Later with the bifurcation of United Andhra Pradesh into Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, Naidu sworn in as the chief minister of newly bifurcated Andhra Pradesh making it to the formation of his third government after 10 years in opposition. He formed a cabinet of 19 members and reshuffled twice in 2017 and 2018.
Legislations
Single Windows Act, 2002 in 2002 to enable robust single-window system for industrial approvals. Public Service Delivery Guarantee Act, 2018 based on the recommendations of the BRAP 2017 report to ensure to become more industry friendly and guarantee efficient public service. Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority Act, 2014 in 2014 which created the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority.
Economic policies
Investment policy
During Naidu's tenure The Andhra Pradesh government aimed at attract $2 billion of investments and create about 100,000 jobs in the information technology (IT) sector. His government defined the goals in the CII summit and the Infrastructure Mission.
In way of investments and attractive incentives, the Naidu government won the honour of best tourism performing state with about 24% in all national tourist arrivals, record international aircraft movements, and occupancy raised by 100% in the same year. The state government decided to treat the tourism policy similar to that of industrial ventures to attract foreign tourists. This led to employment generation direct and indirectly for 37.7 lakhs people raised by 12% in the hotel and hospitality industry, food and beverage services, recreation and entertainment, cabs and transportation, travel trade and booking services and bagged 6 tourism awards for excellence out of 14 categories at the national level.
Ease of doing business
The newly formed state of Andhra Pradesh had been ranked as the easiest Indian state to do business in for the two consecutive years in a survey released by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion and Ministry of Commerce and Industry. And Andhra Pradesh is the only state to be ranked, at 51, in the Global Competitiveness Index of the World Forum, where India's rank was 56. Andhra Pradesh also ranked top in the Ease of Doing Business according to team of researchers led by Tan Khee Giap, co-director of Asia Competitiveness Institute. Tan recognised chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu's leadership and relentless efforts in shaping a vision for the new sunrise state of Andhra Pradesh.