No stay on district reorganising

While refusing to stay the move of the TS government to reorganise districts in the state, the Hyderabad High Court on Thursday made it clear that the any further action of the government with regard to formation of new districts in the state would be subjected to the final outcome of the petitions pending before it.

Justice A. Rajasekhar Reddy was dealing with a petition by G. Padmavathi, chairperson of Gadwal municipality, and others, challenging GO 366 and Form-I notification proceeding with the formation of Mahbubnagar, Nagarkurnool and Wanaparthy districts.

The petitioners told the court that Gadwal was bigger than Mahbubnagar with a population of 1.50 lakh and there was a long-pending demand from the people of the area that it should be made a district.

There was more than 200 acres of government land available in the area to establish government offices and a railway line was also in existence since 100 years, they said.

They contended that the statutory Rule 4(1) of the Telangana Districts (Formation) Rules, 1984 mandates the government to display the preliminary notification in grama chavidis and the office of gram panchayats.

While asking counsel for the government to file a counter affidavit, the court posted the case to after Dasara vacations.