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Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy’s announcement connected the reorganisation of districts and different administrative units successful enactment with the repeated demands from the people, is improbable to materialize anytime soon.
The Chief Minister has precocious said that a caller Commission headed by a retired Supreme Court oregon High Court judge would beryllium appointed to survey reorganisation of districts and mandals in-depth and springiness recommendations connected rationalising the existing ones. He asserted that the erstwhile Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Government had adopted a lopsided and unscientific mechanics successful reorganising the districts and mandals successful the past that led to a spate of complaints from the residents and hence, the committee would circuit the full State and instrumentality feedback from the radical earlier giving its recommendations connected reorganisation of the districts/mandals.
The announcement, however, was made astatine a clip erstwhile the Census Division of the Union Home Ministry has frozen the boundaries of the administrative units with effect from December 31 past twelvemonth [2025] arsenic a prelude to taking up the Census – 2027 works. “An important preparatory enactment successful transportation with the Census 2027 is to cod and compile the details of each the jurisdictional changes that person occurred truthful acold aft the Census 2011 and that volition hap hereafter till the freezing of the boundaries of the administrative units for Census 2027, i.e. up to 31st December, 2025,” the Registrar General and Census Commissioner said successful a circular issued successful August [2025].
According to the circular, the changes whitethorn see the instauration of caller districts, alteration successful the jurisdiction of existing districts, the de-notification of existing districts, the instauration of caller sub-districts oregon a alteration successful their jurisdiction, the instauration of a caller colony by splitting/merging existing colony and a alteration successful the jurisdiction of existing municipality area. Exclusion of areas from towns, notification of caller town, de-notification of existing town, alteration successful name/spelling of the supra entities, alteration successful ward boundaries of a town, and immoderate different jurisdictional changes signifier portion of the changes that stay frozen aft December 31.
The process, according to the notification, volition commence with house-listing and lodging census (Phase-I) for 1 period during April – September this twelvemonth arsenic per the convenience of the State/Union Territory and colonisation enumeration (Phase-II) would beryllium conducted successful February 2027. The Directorates of Census Operations (DCOs) had been obtaining notifications connected jurisdictional changes of assorted administrative units from the respective State/UT Government and scrutinising the same. “Accordingly, the census framework was finalised during 2019, but owed to the postponement of Census 2021, the process has been continuing.
“After notification of the intent to behaviour Census 2027, the DCOs are required to nonstop the details of each jurisdictional changes arsenic connected July 1, 2025 successful the prescribed formats by August 22 past year. Similar accusation is to beryllium supplied for the play July 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 by Jan 10 this year, which volition supply the implicit representation of jurisdictional changes up to 31.12.2025,” arsenic per the circular.
Senior officials refused to remark erstwhile asked astir however the notification would interaction the projected reorganisation of districts announced by the Chief Minister, but for admitting that the process of reorganising districts and mandals has been frozen for the clip being.
