The ongoing efforts to create new district has created confusion and commotion among the people of the districts. The people of the district are doubtful whether the efforts being made to create a new district is for their benefit or that of the political leaders or realtors.
Those who are witness to the unwanted developments and unexpected demands are equating the exercise with gambling, with different maps of new districts being circulated on social networking sites.
K. Rajeshwar Kumar, a senior citizen of Adilabad town said, political leaders were now talking much about the dividing the parent Adilabad district into three and adding that the state government is giving scope for fresh demands without taking a final decision based on scientific assessment and administrative feasibility.
He said state government was holding out to political leaders, emerging with their own fresh demands, and stage-managed agitations, while neglecting genuine new district demands.
Political leaders are said to be lobbying for the creation of a district with those towns and surrounding areas in which they owned thousands of acres of land or in which they were invested in the real estate business.
The news is making the rounds has it that Indrakaran Reddy is lobbying for the creation of Nirmal district, being his home town, besides the existing demand for Mancherial, Bellampalli, Kagaznagar, Asifabad and Utnoor districts.
A post was circulated on social networking sites, claiming that Minister for Endowment Allola Indrakaran Reddy thanking Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao for agreeing, in principle, to create the Nirmal district, with some of his supporters celebrating the news and thanking the minister for his efforts in realizing this demand.
Meanwhile, some people staged a rasta roko demanding that the state government merge Basar town into Nizamabad due to the proximity of the two. What is also being circulated is the possibility of Mudhole Assembly Constituency being merged into Nizamabad district, if Nirmal district is not created.
In all the brouhaha, the state government seems not to consider the Adivaisi’s demand for the creation of an Utnoor district, the question on people’s minds also being whether the integrated Tribal Development Agency, Utnoor had done enough to protect the rights of the tribals in the light of the creation of a new district.
Adivasi leaders said that they were the real losers on various accounts- in the creation of new district just as in the creation of separate Telangana state.
What is also being debated is whether the reports that the district administration was submitting to the state government on the creation of new district was being done under the political pressure.
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