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Amaravati, Nov 25 (IANS) The Andhra Pradesh government has decided to create three new districts, taking the total number of districts in the state to 29.
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday approved the recommendations of the Group of Ministers proposing Markapuram, Madanapalle and Polavaram districts.
It was also decided to create five new revenue divisions, including Nakkapalle in Anakapalle district, Addanki in Prakasam district, Peeleru in Madanapalle, Banaganapalle in Nandyala district and Madakasira in Satyasai district.
The meeting also decided to create a new Peddaharivanam mandal by dividing Adoni mandal of Kurnool district.
Rampachodvaram and Chinturu revenue divisions will fall under Polavaram district. Rampachodavaram will be the headquarters of the district.
Markaram will be formed from Languandapam, Markaram, Kanigiri and Gidalalu conferences.
Madanapalle district will be formed with Madanapalle, Punganuru and Peeleru revenue divisions.
The Chief Minister had said last month that the reorganization of districts in the state should fulfill the aspirations of the people and provide administrative facilities.
He said that the problems that had arisen in the formation of new districts by the previous government should be resolved and at the same time new problems should not arise.
The state government had constituted a seven-member ministerial sub-committee on district reorganization on July 22 this year.
After bifurcation in 2014, only 13 districts were left in divided Andhra Pradesh. The previous YSRCP government doubled this number to 26 in 2022.
The TDP-led alliance had promised during last year’s elections that districts would be reorganized and new revenue divisions would be created to correct the unscientific formation of new districts in the previous government.
CM Naidu had said that the previous government’s wrong decision on formation of new districts led to regional differences as it did not take into account the aspirations of the people.
He had asked the sub-committee to carry out the work of reorganization of districts keeping in mind the delimitation of constituencies. He wanted the revenue divisions to be reorganized separately.
Naidu wanted a study to be conducted on which revenue wards and constituencies people from flood-affected mandals would live in after the completion of the Polavaram project. He said that restructuring should be done accordingly.
–IANS
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