Addressing the Collectors' conference on the district delimitation process at the MCR Human Resource Development Institute in Hyderabad, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao today said that the creation of smaller districts would ensure effective implementation of the welfare schemes and development programs in the State.
"The smaller the districts, the better the administration," KCR said.
He also announced Rs. 1 crore each for the new collectors' offices and Rs. 50 lakhs each for the new police stations that would be established in the new districts.
The CM also said that several administrative wings would be brought together and new officials would be appointed to effectively monitor them.
"Of the 64 departmental wings that exist in the government, several have similar functions. These departments will be brought under one gazetted official following the task force recommendations," the CM said.
Departmental wings with overlapping functions such as the forest, social forests and wild animals wings will be clubbed together. The DRDA, DWAMA and SERP will also be made a single department.
Government-appointed officials would alone head the agriculture, horticulture and sericulture departments to make the system more accountable, and all unnecessary posts and middlemen in these wings would be eliminated, the CM said.
The CM also said that the irrigation projects that were being taken up by the State government would boost the agriculture sector in the proposed districts.
He expressed hope that the new Collectors would monitor all the schemes that would be initiated in the new districts to bring a significant change in the lives of not only the general population, but also the SC, ST, BC and other minority communities.
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