‘No question of scrapping districts’

Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy said that many governance problems have arisen due to the BRS Government’s policy of carving out new districts and revenue divisions and that they will try to solve them.
Replying to the demands of MLAs of all political parties for new revenue divisions and mandals in the Assembly on Tuesday, Ponguleti said the government had received proposals for 11 revenue divisions and that the government had issued notifications for four.
He said that BRS MLA Palla Rajeshwar Reddy and R&B Minister Komatireddy Venkat Reddy had demanded a revenue division in Cheryal. However, the government will have to examine all requests for new revenue divisions, he added.
Replying to a question by former Minister Sunitha Laxma Reddy, he said that the government has no intention to scrap any district or revenue division. He said the state has 33 districts, 621 mandals and 76 revenue divisions and that will continue. There is no need for changes in districts and revenue divisions, the minister clarified.
He said the government will direct Collectors to examine the possibility of setting up Makthal and Athmakur revenue divisions and a new mandal in the Alair Assembly constituency.