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Minister for Agriculture and Marketing Tummala Nageswara Rao urged the Union authorities to instrumentality steps to reconstruct 5 Gram Panchayats (GPs) adjoining Bhadrachalam municipality to Telangana from Andhra Pradesh, stating that their merger with Andhra Pradesh was an ‘anomaly’. These villages were merged with Andhra Pradesh aft the enactment of Telangana.
In a missive addressed to Union Home Minister Amit Shah connected Sunday, Mr. Nageswara Rao sought the restoration oregon re-transfer of Yatapaka, Kannaigudem, Pitchikalapadu, Purushothapatnam and Gundala Gram Panchayats, which unneurotic comprise 19 gross villages stating that they stay geographically, functionally and administratively linked to Telangana.
Urging the Centre to analyse the substance holistically, helium said Parliament should sermon this long-pending contented during a peculiar league apt to beryllium held this period to statement cardinal legislative moves, including the Women’s Reservation Act and the projected delimitation exercise.
Highlighting the hardships faced by residents, predominantly by tribals, Mr. Tummala Nageswara Rao said the territory office of Alluri Sitarama Raju territory successful Andhra Pradesh is astir 282 km away, whereas the Bhadradri Kothagudem territory office successful Telangana is conscionable 40 km away.
The missive besides flagged interior information concerns successful presumption of the power of Left Wing Extremism (LWE). According to the Minister, discontinuous territorial boundaries complicate coordination among policing and information agencies.
Mr. Nageswara Rao further drew attraction to issues related to the medication and improvement of the Sri Seetha Ramachandra Swamy Temple astatine Bhadrachalam. While the temple itself is located successful Telangana, important temple-related lands autumn wrong the Purushothapatnam colony successful Andhra Pradesh. He said Telangana has projected developmental works worthy astir ₹300 crore for the Bhadrachalam temple region, and a unified administrative model is indispensable for effectual readying and integrated development.
