Hyderabad: If Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao agrees to all the demands, the state will soon have 36 districts.
The government has received representations from political parties, leaders and organisations seeking new districts, the latest being Yadadri. Sources said the CCLA has received data from various districts and it is being processed for creation of new districts. While the CM planned to increase the number of districts by 12-14, the demand is much more.
Officials are processing petitions and scanning data pertaining to population, literacy, education, infrastructure, drinking water, power, land, revenue, recognition of the place and its history, availability of land for construction of district headquarters, Assembly constituencies, revenue divisions, mandals among others in various districts, besides the facilities available in the towns to be converted into new district headquarters.
The government will study the feasibility of all the requests before taking a final decision, a senior official said. Recently, Telugu Desam leader M. Narasimhulu launched a movement demanding creation of Yadadri district named after Yadagirigutta besides Bhuvanagiri in Nalgonda district.
The government received nine representations from Mahbubnagar district, including eight seeking Gadwal district. Congress MLA D.K. Aruna and others are reportedly backing the Gadwal as a district in view of its prominent place in the world textile map, and history. Some are backing Wanaparthy district. Similarly, representations have been received for Sammakka Sarakka, Jangaon, Mahbubabad districts in present Warangal district.
Girijan leaders want a new Girijan district named after Sammakka Sarakka with Girijan areas.
From Khammam, representations have been received for creation of Sathupally, Kothagudem and Bhadrachallam districts while from Adilabad there is a plea for carving out Kagaznagar, Nirmal, Bellampalli and Mancherial. From Medak district, there is already a plea for Gajwel, besides Medak town, Vikarabad, Medchal in Ranga Reddy district.
The list goes on. The government constituted a panel to study the formation of 14 new districts in addition to existing 10.
The new districts are likely to come into being from March 1, 2016 and the announcement would be made in January. Objections and suggestions will be received from the people and parties in February.
It is stated that while the national average of population for each district is 19 lakh in the country, population of districts in TS is around 36 lakh each.
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