Tribal people, political parties, and civil society representatives on Wednesday decided to wage a legal battle for the creation of Alluri Seetharamaraju district headquartered at Rampachodavaram in the erstwhile East Godavari Agency.
On April 2, the State government carved out a new district headquartered at Paderu from the erstwhile East Godavari district and named it after freedom fighter Alluri Seetharamaraju. The new district headquarters is 300 km from Chintoor Agency on the Chhattisgarh and Odisha border.