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BJP MLA Balachandra Jarkiholi has written to the Chief Minister seeking part of Belagavi territory to make Gokak and Chikkodi districts, for administrative convenience.
“Belagavi is 1 of the biggest districts successful the State. It is excessively ample and unwieldy for casual governance. Division of districts to make smaller ones volition pb to administrative convenience, effectual governance and benefits to the wide public,” helium said.
“Belagavi has 18 Assembly seats successful 15 taluks. It has 506 gram panchayats. It is precise hard to expect administrative officers to circuit the full territory successful their abbreviated tenures oregon to behaviour their responsibilities effectively. People from far-off places similar Telsang, Khanapur, Sankeshwar oregon Ramdurg person to question hundreds of kilometres to scope the territory headquarter municipality of Belagavi. The lone mode to extremity specified problems is to disagreement the district,” helium said.
“For astir 40 years, our radical person been warring for the enactment of Gokak and Chikkodi districts. As galore arsenic 4 commissions appointed by the erstwhile governments for the enactment of districts person recommended division. Elected representatives similar america person besides been urging the authorities for the enactment of smaller districts similar Gokak and Chikkodi. This has been a non-partisan demand,” helium said.
“We impulse the State authorities to denote the instauration of the caller districts successful the Winter Session of the State Legislature starting astatine the Suvarna Soudha successful Belagavi adjacent week. The Chief Minister should marque this announcement and instrumentality his determination soon,” helium said.
