The reorganisation of Adilabad district has set a different pace of development for the four units, yet the move of the government to truncate larger entities into smaller ones seems to go in favour of the common man. The reduced geographical extent of the new districts has enabled officials to travel to the remotest corner, besides giving them enough time to review even those subjects which were ignored hitherto.
In terms of infrastructure, residual Adilabad and Nirmal have the advantage while Mancherial needs new buildings for Collectorate and its offices. Kumram Bheem Asifabad lacks many facilities, including decent accommodation for the top officials.
The district headquarter town of Asifabad also lacks in basic facilities which needs some attention. There are no hotels serving good food and visitors complain of this fact quite often.
KB Asifabad is also disadvantaged heavily when it comes to vacancies in various departments. “This is one aspect which the government cannot continue to ignore,” observed an official who considered the issue to be of serious proportion.
“Kotapalli and Nennel, the remote and most neglected mandals, are getting proper attention after formation of Mancherial district. I am able to focus on all subjects now,” pointed out Mancherial Collector R.V. Karnan, as he quoted an example on the advantages of smaller districts. Development of roads connecting remote tribal habitations in Tiryani mandal of KB Asifabad district is another example of advantage of smaller districts. Bejjur, which was considered far flung in undivided Adilabad is no longer a remote place.
So far as law and order is concerned, the rate of crime seems to have gone down in all the four districts. Superintendents of Police have got all the time in the world to focus on the programmes leading to improvement of the department’s relation with general public.
More leisure time
Reduction of the size of Adilabad district to a fourth of its original size post reorganisation, has given its top officials more leisure time. Collector Buddha Prakash M. Jyothi and Superintendent of Police M. Sreenivas spend a few hours working out in gyms and watching movies. The pressure of work on the staff also seems to have eased considerably as is evident from the fact that as many as 250 head constables, along with their families, watched a special show of Telugu movie Head Constable Venkatramaiah . The SP facilitated this activity, apparently to relieve the policemen of the boredom caused by inactivity.
