K Chandrasekhar Rao cautious on final notification for the creation of new districts
Hyderabad: The state government is treading a cautious path on issuing final notification for the creation of new districts by this month-end. This follows intense protests in some places against some of the new districts notified in the preliminary notification released in August.
Several Opposition leaders and civil organisations are planning to move the High Court against new districts, once the final notification is issued. The protesters and Opposition leaders allege that the new districts lack scientific-basis and are being created solely on political grounds.
Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has convened a meeting with district collectors on September 6 to discuss these issues and advise officials on the precautions they need to take before issuing final notification. This is to ensure that the new districts are not stuck in legal dispute, enabling their smooth launch on Dasara as planned.
The government is expected to take all these factors into consideration before issuing final notification in the last week of this month. The Chief Minister said hthat e would inaugurate the new districts in the state on Dasara, launching Siddipet district on October 11. Ministers in respective districts would launch new districts on the same day.
Unseat TRS, Revanth asks people
TD working president A. Revanth Reddy on Sun-day asked people to dislodge the TRS government and demolish all TRS flag posts in villages to protest against the unscientific reorganisation of districts.
Addressing a news conference here on Sunday, Mr Reddy said Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, who refused to carve out new districts till the delimitation of new Assembly seats earlier, is going ahead with the creation of new districts without rationale, scientific approach.
He said the draft notification on districts shows that six districts will have only seven lakh population each, while others will have 15 to 40 lakh. This, he said, will eventually affect the im-plementation of several welfare and development schemes in the districts.
He also said that there was no rationale in carving two districts — Wan-aparthy and Nagarku-rnool — as both of them nearby towns.
Mr Reddy accused the Chief Minister of showing favouritism to his friends and relatives in carving out Shamshabad as new district even wit-hout people asking for it.
He said Shamshabad has been given district status to favour a big industrialist, who is close to the Chief Minister and help his real estate business.
Pointing out Mr Rao’s reluctance to divide Hyd-erabad and Secunder-abad as they are historic, he wondered if the same logic does not apply to Warangal and Hanum-akonda — which were twin cities from ages.
