District with largest population, smallest area; Secunderabad to beat Hyderabad
Hyderabad: The proposed Secunderabad district will beat Hyderabad district in two aspects – the largest population and the smallest area. Hyderabad district holds the record currently.
The ongoing workshop with collectors and government brass on the formation of new districts has finalised the boundaries along with statistics including population, area, mandals, newly proposed mandals and revenue divisions.
Secunderabad will have the largest population with 42.51 lakh people, while being the smallest at 1,608 sq. km. Hyderabad district will stand second in population with 39.01 lakh with the second smallest area, 1,914.02 sq km.
Warangal will be the third with 22.36 lakh followed by Mahbubnagar (18.67 lakh) and Karimnagar (18.02 lakh). Yadadri, to be developed as a temple district, will have the smallest population with 7.19 lakh people.
The government proposes to include Jagadevpur mandal of Medak district in Yadadri, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s farmhouse at Erravalli will fall in the district.
The proposed Komaram Bheem district will be the largest in size at 8,442 sq. km. The second largest will be the newly formed Bhadradri at 8,297.8 sq km.
Three existing districts will have more than 7,000 sq km area – Adilabad (7,673.38 sq. km), Nalgonda (7,475 sq. km) and Medak (7,447 sq. km).
Acharya Jayashakar district will be 6,760.29 sq. km and Mahbubnagar 6,518 sq. km.
The other districts, Jagityal, Kamareddy, Karimnagar, Khammam, Mahbubabad, Nizamabad, Ranga Reddy, Sangareddy, Siddipet, Suryapet, Wanaparthy and Warangal will be between 2,000 sq. km and 4,000 sq. km, according to the proposals.
Three more mandals to make it easy for IT zone residents
The IT corridor will get three more revenue mandals after the government announces new mandals alongside new districts.
The Ranga Reddy district administration has sent proposals to the government for the formation of 10 more mandals along with a revenue division in the district.
Three revenue divisions were established earlier as per census 1985.
The N. Kiran Kumar Reddy government in 2013 created Rajendranagar and Malkajgiri divisions. At present, the IT corridor lies in two mandals — Balanagar and Seri Lingampally — in GHMC limits and Rajendranagar in panchayat raj limits.
As per the proposals sent to the government, Seri Lingampally mandal would be divided in two parts – Seri Lingampally and Kondapur/Madhapur. Balanagar is proposed be be divided into Balanagar and Kukatpally. Rajendranagar mandal – which has Kokapet, Narsingi, Puppalguda and Manikonda in the IT corridor – will be divided into Rajendranagar and Narsingi.
Seri Lingampally, Kondapur/Madhapur and Kukatpally will have all the 10 GHMC divisions of IT corridor and Narsingi will have a few gram panchayats.
Besides, Alwal, Domm-ara Pochampally, Jawah-arnagar, Pedda Shapur, Abdullapur and Meerpet will be announced as new mandals.
