The Andhra Pradesh government’s decision to reorganize districts by adding 13 new districts has turned a hornet’s nest.
While the ruling YSR Congress party justifies the move on the basis of decentralized administration as promised ahead of the elections, opposition parties and civil society organizations have to create new districts with Lok Sabha constituencies as the basis of division. There does not appear to be any justification behind the move. The parliamentary constituencies are likely to be taken over by the Center every decade or so. The Jagan Mohan Reddy government’s move is being seen largely as a tactic to distract from the growing agitation by state government employees on various burning issues, including wage hikes.
The State Government has opened a Pandora’s Box through the ‘unscientific’ three parts of the district by adding the assembly constituencies of Chirala, Parchur and Adanki with the new district with Bapatla headquarter and after formation of the new Kandukur Revenue Division as SPSR Nellore district. reconnected with. Madhu Kolla, president of the Ongole Citizens Forum, believes that “Balaji district” and maintaining a small Ongole district without adequate resources.
The government has always been receptive to suggestions. Accepting the demand of the Ongolites, the SN Padu assembly constituency has been retained along with the Ongole headquarters district, explains YSRCP MLA TJR Sudhakar Babu. The Jagan Mohan Reddy government had given a month’s time to receive objections and suggestions before taking a decision on the outline of the new districts.
‘better choice’
The 10th largest, sprawling Prakasam district in the country with an area of 17,626 sq km, was formed in 1970 by bringing together the most backward parts of Kurnool, Nellore and Guntur districts for focused development, certainly better governance of the underdeveloped western should be divided for. By forming a new part with Markapur as the headquarters, TDP opposes Ongole Lok Sabha unit president N Balaji.
Former Markapur MLA Kandula Narayan Reddy, who headed the Markapur District Sadana Samiti to lead the struggle for the purpose, believes Kandula Narayan Reddy, a former MLA from Giddalur, Yeragondapalem and Markapur. Assembly constituencies can be better administered by creating a new district. No purpose would be served by maintaining Dornala adjacent to the Nallamala forests in remote areas such as Yeragondapalem, Pullalacheruvu and, along with Ongole, which are about 150 km from Ongole in residual Prakasam district and Kandukur just 50 km from the headquarter. are different. And linking it with the Nellore headquarter district, about 90 km away, remarked former Giddalur MLA M. Ashok Reddy.
President of Prakasam District Development Forum, Ch. Ranga Rao.
People of Santamagalur area of Adanki assembly constituency prefer to live in Ongole headquarter district instead of new Bapatla district. If bifurcation is inevitable, the region should be clubbed with the new Palnadu district, which is carved out of neighboring Guntur district, said former chairman of Adanki Agricultural Market Committee N. Ramakrishna believes.
Retaining Kandukur in Ongole headquarter district after retaining SN Padu with the remnant Prakasam district would make it cumbersome and hence the decision to reunite it with SPSR Nellore district after a thorough study of various socio-economic and cultural aspects, State planning department chief executive officer GSRKR Vijayakumar, who has previously served as Prakasam collector, explains.
However, Marella Subba Rao, secretary of the Ongole Town Development Committee, fears that the people of Prakasam will not benefit from the port-led economic development by connecting Ramayapatnam with neighboring Nellore district.
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