In a major administrative revamp, the two-year-old Telangana Government
has issued draft notification on rearranging district borders to create
17 new districts.
After the completion of the process, the number of
districts in the State will go up to 27 from the present 10. The new
districts will come into being in October 2016
The government invokes a 1974 Act that provides for the reorganisation.
The number of mandals and revenue divisions too will go up.
Though the
government wanted to increase the number of mandals by 90, it decided to
prune it to 31, so that after the revamp, the number will be 490. The
State will have 58 (44 now) revenue divisions.
However, the notification for Hyderabad, the capital region, is yet to
come out. The government has given a month’s time for people to send
their feedback on the break-up of districts and formation of new revenue
divisions.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao has mooted the idea of carving out
new districts in order to minimise the hassle for people in commuting to
the district headquarters and to enhance the efficiency of the
administration.
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