Hyderabad: In a historic decision, the Telangana state Cabinet on Saturday decided to effect a major but selective reorganisation of districts, under which an addition of 17 districts would see the state having a total of 27 districts, as against the existing 10. The government would issue a draft notification to this effect on Monday, August 22.
The last time a district had been created was Ranga Reddy, in 1978, next to capital Hyderabad. After a gap of 38 years, districts are being reorganised and new ones formed by the will of the TRS government that stormed into power in 2014 with K. Chandrasekhar Rao as Chief Minister.
After issuing of the draft notification, the government would wait for month to receive and consider suggestions from the people and proceed accordingly.
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In a historic decision, the Cabinet on Saturday decided to effect a major reorganisation of districts. The government would issue a draft notification to this effect on Monday, August 22.
Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao announced that he would call an all-party meet once or twice to fine-tune matters before finalising the districts. He held such a meeting earlier in the day.
“The new districts formation process would begin after the issue of notification. We are now going to the public domain and will wait for feedback. I got some proposals at the all-party meet today, which will be taken into account. We will give a full-page advertisement in newspapers on the proposed districts, new revenue divisions and new mandals. Till now, we had a committee headed by chief secretary and a cabinet sub subcommittee that went into the matter,” he said after the Cabinet meeting.
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Mr Rao said he wanted to make it clear the new districts are being carved out for public and administrative convenience. The proposed districts will be revenue districts. “This is a ratified item since we have put this in our election manifesto and we got the mandate. It will be 99.9 per cent acceptable to the public. All the same, this is not the final draft. There could be changes.”
Stating that Hyderabad will remain as it is, he said there has been a demand from various quarters for new districts across the state but this is not viable. “If a majority of the people want the heritage Warangal city to be one unit, we will retain it,” he said.
