The recent division of the existing 13 districts into 26 districts is yet again a historical injustice to the Rayalaseema region, opined the Rayalaseema Saguneeti Sadhana Samiti. It demanded the creation of at least three more districts — Adoni, Guntakal, and Madanapalli — in addition to the eight notified now.
Rayalaseema region with 42% of the landmass of the State has only 8 districts, while the remaining 18 are in 58%, which reduces focus on development, it opined.
Samiti president Bojja Dasaratharami Reddy told The Hindu that close to 50 lakh people had migrated from Rayalaseema region to other parts of the erstwhile combined Andhra Pradesh owing to lack of irrigation water and no focus on the development of the arable land by creating infrastructure to utilise river Krishna water as per the 1937 Sribagh Pact.
