Telangana CM Revanth announces Commission to study reorganisation of districts and mandals

The Telangana Government has decided to review the reorganisation of districts and rationalise the process asserting that the previous Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Government has adopted lopsided mechanism in the process.

The Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has announced that a new commission headed by retired Supreme Court or High Court judge will be appointed soon to study reorganisation of districts and mandals in-depth and give recommendations on rationalisation of the existing ones. The Commission will tour the entire State, take feedback from the people before giving its recommendations. The decision follows representations received from the people from different parts of the State relating to the unscientific reorganisation conducted in the past.

The Chief Minister made the comments releasing the diary and calendar of Telangana Gazetted Officers Central Association in Hyderabad on Monday (January 12, 2026). Expressing concern that the previous Government reorganised districts in an ‘indiscriminate manner’, he said his Government had decided to discuss the issue threadbare in the forthcoming budget session of the Legislature and finalise modalities for reorganisation in consultation with all political parties.

He said the Congress Government was saddled with debt of ₹8 lakh crore inherited from the previous Government. While the revenue of the Government was ₹18,000 crore a month, it had to incur ₹22,000 crore expenditure every month for repayment of principal and interest on loans obtained by the previous Government. “The situation of the Government is like the average middle class family in managing its affairs,” he said.

Mr. Reddy said the effective coordination between the Government and the employees had ensured that the former withstood the pressure mounted on the financial front. “A Government does not mean Chief Minister and Ministers alone and all the, more than 10.5 lakh, employees are partners in the development process,” he said.

He asserted that he would stand by the employees in times of need recalling how the Government paid salaries on time to all categories of staff. The Chief Minister announced that the Government had signed the file pertaining to sanction of dearness allowance to employees on Monday as a Sankranti gift. The Government was committed to ensure health security to the employees and steps had been initiated to provide accidental insurance of ₹1 crore covering all the employees.

In this context, the Chief Minister took indirect dig at the BRS president and former Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao alleging that “few people sitting in farm houses are unable to digest the manner in which the employees and Government are working together”.

The Government would soon resolve the problems pertaining to payment of retirement benefits to employees. “Governance is a responsibility and it will be effective only when the employees work hand in hand,” he said assuring that the Government would take steps to resolve all the pending issues in the coming days. It would also extend its support for the construction of the building for Gazetted Officers.