Telangana with low population density of districts

Hyderabad, March 14: The experts says about the division of Telangana Districts that, The division is not a proper decision does not useful for the development of the state.Even though some districts have very low population density.

Barring Medchal and Warangal Urban districts, the population density in all the other newly carved districts appears to be fulfilling the government’s ambitious plan to reach out governance to the remotest parts.

The State Capital Hyderabad has 18,171 people living per square km and is far ahead of many of the remaining districts. Medchal comes a poor second with 2,251 people per sq km and Warangal Urban a distant third at 826 people per sq km. The dispersion of population, according to the Socio Economic Outlook -2017 ‘Reinventing Telangana’, shows population per square kilometre to be less than 500 in all the other districts with a majority accounting to only a couple of hundreds of people.

Kumram Bhim Asifabad has only 106 people per square km closely followed by Jayashankar Bhupalpalli with 115 and Nagarkurnool at 124. The distribution as indicated by the Outlook 2017 gives some substance to the criticism from a section of the Opposition parties that the reorganisation of the districts was not made scientifically adopting population as the criteria.

This is reflected in the population figures of different districts, varying from 5.16 lakh in Kumram Bheem Asifabad to over 24 lakh in Ranga Reddy and Medchal districts not to speak of Hyderabad with 39.43 lakh population.

But, the distribution translates to official machinery catering to fewer people in a specified area enabling better reach of the benefits of schemes. under welfare and developmental programme to percolate down the grass roots.

The Outlook 2017 mentions that the focussed approach would witness the development of revenue divisions and mandals along with the district headquarters for faster rapid growth and change the perception of people towards governance and boost confidence.

With more even distribution of resources and infrastructure, the poor and marginalised sections, especially in the interior areas will get access to quality infrastructure such as schools, colleges, hospitals, roads, transport and communications.