Aarogyasri ensured health-care for all. It was a scheme that became something of a model for states across the country.

It became synonymous with YSR, but the State government it appears, is out to erase all traces of the late Chief Minister's association with the popular health scheme. The building's precincts, name, pre-authorization forms, out-patient slips, case-sheets, nowhere is an image of the late Chief Minister to be seen any more. A large picture of YSR that greeted visitors in the Jubilee Hills headquarters of the Trust has been pulled down and very soon Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy's picture is likely to be placed there. YSR Bhavan no longer bears his name.

The late chief minister's name which was to be found on the name-plate of the Aarogyasri Trust building is not there anymore. This despite the fact that a unanimous resolution was passed to name the Trust building after YSR after his sudden and unfortunate demise in a helicopter crash in September 2009. The resolution was okayed by the then Principal Secretary of Health, J. Satyanarayana.

Subsequently, even during Rosaiah's tenure, the forms and slips related to the scheme had the CM's picture on one side and YSR's on another. In contrast, the current government has removed YSR's image from diagnostic slips, OP forms and case-sheets among others. Further, trust officials have been directed by the powers that be to take YSR's name off all items of stationery, be it envelopes or letterheads. While the address of the Trust building previously read 'Aarogyasri Healthcare Trust, YSR Bhavan opposite Ambedkar Open University', the modified address bears only the door number without mentioning YSR Bhavan or Ambedkar Open University.

While the Kiran Kumar Reddy government is desperately attempting to efface YSR's name from the one of the most popular schemes ever, pioneered by the late chief minister, what it does not seem to realize that people will always remember it as YSR's pet scheme and one that ensured universal health care. YSR's name lives in the hearts and minds of people and not on items of stationery or signs on doors.