Telangana decides to create 17 New districts

HYDERABAD: The state government in principle has decided to create 17 more new districts which will take the total number of districts to 27 in the state.

After a six-hour long exercise on the report submitted by the Cabinet sub-committee on new districts, the special chief secretary (revenue) Pradeep Chandra invited seven political parties to the all- party meeting to be held on August 20 on the reorganisation of districts.
In a single page invite, the government invited TRS, Congress, AIMIM, BJP, CPI, CPM and TDP for the all-party meeting. Immediately after receiving the letter from the government, CPI state secretary Chada Venkat Reddy protested that the letter had no draft proposals. “We would also like to know who will be interacting with the political parties on this subject. Whether chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will be attending the all-party meeting or not? I request you to send note on the draft proposal to make our concrete suggestions on this subject," Venkat Reddy said in his reply.
Letter from spl chief secy
"All political parties are informed that the state government has decided to conduct an all-party meeting on August 20 at 2 p.m. at C Block, 6th floor in the Telangana Secretariat regarding formation of new districts in the state. All the political parties are requested to depute one or two members of each party for discussion on the proposed new districts in the Telangana. You are requested to intimate the names of the persons attending the meeting so that necessary arrangements can be made."
17 new districts
The state government has proposed to have 17 new districts and an increase in the revenue divisions from the existing 44 to 74, while mandals from 459 to 533.
After the all-party meeting, the government will issue the draft notification and a month's time will be given to general public to air their views.
Proposed districts
Mancherial, Adilabad, Nirmal, Karimnagar, Peddapally, Jagtial, Mahabubabad, Warangal, Hanamkonda, Bhoopalpally, Siddipet, Medak, Sangareddy, Nizamabad, Kamareddy, Nalgonda, Suryapet, Yadadri, Mahbubnagar, Nagarkurnool, Wanaparthy, Khammam, Kothagudem, Hyderabad (old), Vikarabad, Shamshabad and Malkajgiri.

Telangana state Exciting Districts Demographics

Code

	District	Headquarters	Population (2011)	Area (km²)	Density (/km²)
AD	Adilabad	Adilabad	2,737,738	16,105	170
HY	Hyderabad	Hyderabad	4,010,238	527	7610
KA	Karimnagar	Karimnagar	3,811,738	11,823	322
KH	Khammam	Khammam	2,798,214	16,029	175
MA	Mahbubnagar	Mahabubnagar	4,042,191	18,432	219
ME	Medak	Sangareddi	3,031,877	9,699	313
NA	Nalgonda	Nalgonda	3,483,648	14,240	245
NI	Nizamabad	Nizamabad	2,552,073	7,956	321
RA	Rangareddy	Hyderabad	5,296,396	7,493	707
WA	Warangal	Warangal	3,522,644	12,846	252

KCR Sworn in as Telangana’s first Chief Minister; 11 ministers to be part of cabinet

Hyderabad:  K Chandrasekhar Rao took oath of office on Monday morning as the first chief minister of

As he was sworn in, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, "India gets a new state! We welcome Telangana as our 29th state...Congrats to K Chandrasekhar Rao Garu on taking oath as Telangana's 1st CM. My best wishes to people for the state's development journey."
He also said, "Centre assures complete support to the people & Government of Telangana in taking the state to newer heights of progress."

Earlier on Monday morning, ESL Narasimhan was sworn in as Governor of both Telangana and the residuary Andhra Pradesh. The two states will share a Governor and Hyderabad as a common capital for 10 years.

Mr Rao or KCR as he is popularly known as, took oath along with 12 ministers, including his son KT Rama Rao and nephew T Harish Rao. Last month his party, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi or TRS had won 62 of the 119 seats in the newly formed Telangana Assembly.

Hyderabad and other parts of the new state have been celebrating since midnight, the capital city washed in pink, the colour of the TRS.

KCR will make his first address as chief minister at the police grounds in Secunderabad and will enter the Telangana state secretariat at noon. C Block, which was occupied by the chief ministers of undivided Andhra Pradesh, will be his office.

The other half of the Secretariat has been allotted to Chandrababu Naidu, who will take over as the chief minister of the residual Andhra Pradesh made up of what is called Seemandhra, later this week.

"Lots of people sacrificed their lives, then and also now, for Telangana. Now the challenge for the new government of KCR is to take everyone along, so they feel they are a party to the development of Telangana," said Laxminarayan Mudiraj, 85, who as Hyderabad mayor defied police orders in 1969 to try and inaugurate a Martyrs' Memorial in honour of over 300 people who had died in police firing during an agitation for Telangana.

Telangana, India's 29th state, created at midnight yesterday by bifurcating Andhra Pradesh.

Freedom at midnight: Telangana

HYDERABAD:Celebrations have begun in Hyderabad and all across Telangana as the separate state is set to become a reality at the stroke of midnight. 

Tomorrow is the "appointed day" when Telangana would come into existence as the 29th state of India and Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president K Chandrasekhar Rao is scheduled to assume office as chief minister at 8.15 am, sources said.     
TRS, Congress and other political parties as well as pro-Telangana groups have lined up a series of programmes to celebrate the formation of the new state.    
Telangana supporters gathered at People's Plaza at the picturesque Hussain Sagar Lake where cultural programmes and a dazzling display of fireworks are among the scheduled events.           
Telangana supporters also took out victory rallies and distributed sweets to celebrate the occasion. 

  
Congress leaders took out a rally here tonight, hailing their party president Sonia Gandhi for making separate statehood for Telangana a reality.          
After taking oath as Telangana's first chief minister tomorrow, Chandrasekhar Rao is scheduled to attend official celebrations of Telangana formation at Parade Grounds here, sources said.       
The national flag would be unfurled and celebrations would be organised at the offices of Congress, TDP, BJP and YSR Congress tomorrow morning, sources said.