Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has placed himself sixth in the latest performance appraisal of his council of ministers, while his son, minister Nara Lokesh, is at number nine. NDA ally and Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan is ranked 11.

The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief, in his fourth term as CM, including two tenures heading a united Andhra Pradesh, has introduced a system to regularly evaluate his cabinet colleagues and state bureaucrats.

The current rankings are based on the speed with which ministers clear e-files. This is part of Naidu’s efforts to replace manual files—and thereby reduce the time taken to clear them—by Sankranti, the Telugu harvest festival which falls in mid-January. Show Full Article

An earlier rankings chart revealed during a cabi

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