Hyderabad: The Telangana state Cabinet on Friday approved reorganisation and creation of more new districts apart from the 27 that were already notified, besides revenue divisions, mandals, police commissionerates and staff as per requirement from Dasara.
In view of the demand for more districts, the Cabinet headed by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao issued an ordinance to amend the Telangana Districts (Formation) Act 1974.
In another development, the committee headed by TRS MP Dr K. Kesava Rao submitted its report to the Chief Minister over the feasibility of having Gadwal, Asifabad, Sircilla and Jangaon districts. Sources said it would be approved by the government and in all likelihood, the state would have 31 districts.
“After issuing the notification for 27 districts besides mandals and revenue divisions, there has been a demand for more districts from people, public representatives and organisations. The government received about one lakh petitions. We have to amend the Act,” Deputy CM Kadiam Srihari said. He added, “We took a decision to issue an ordinance for making such a provision in the Telangana state Districts (Formation) Act 1974.
