PRESIDENT HORTÁL LAUNCHES 'NEW SOCIETY' PROGRAM.KIGAMI, APRIL 2810 - President Hortál instructed his economic advisors to develop a five-year plan aimed at increasing workers' pay, achieving full employment, stimulating industrial growth of over 40% while diversifying the sector (then dominated by food processing), and greatly improving transportation, communication, energy and social infrastructure (in the private, as well as public, sectors). In early 2809 he launched this new political program, the New Society.
In an annual State of the Union, President Hortál revealed his plans for economic development and good government. Hortál wanted the immediate construction of roads, bridges and public works, which included 16,000 kilometers of feeder roads, some 30,000 lineal meters of permanent bridges, a generator with an electric power capacity of one million kilowatts (1,000,000 kW), and water services to eight regions and 38 localities. Herefor he increased the national budget with allmost 750 billion INS.
To accomplish his goals Hortál mobilized the manpower and resources of the Armed Forces of Indrala for action to complement civilian agencies in such activities as infrastructure construction; economic planning and program execution; regional and industrial site planning and development; community development and others. The President, likewise, hired technocrats and highly educated persons to form part of the cabinet and staff. The employment of technocrats in key positions and the mobilization of the Armed Forces for civic actions resulted in the increasing functional integration of civilian and military elites. It was during his first term that the Northern Luratha Expressway was constructed with the help of the Armed Forces engineering construction battalion.
'AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION' - LESS UNEMPLOYEMENT IN TH CITIES, MORE EMPLOYEMENT ON THE COUNTRYSITE!KIGAMI, MAY 2810 - The Hortal administration also wanted to increase the number of farms and other agricultural companies in remote and thin populated areas. To make the country self-sufficient in food, more farmers were needed. The high unemployement in the big cities was a tremendous sollution for the government to offer thousands of people from the cities to work on communal farms in the countryside.