Lucknow, September 28
Chief Minister Mayawati today formally announced the creation of three new districts in western Uttar Pradesh and reiterated a number of populist demands targeted at her vote bank kickstarting her election campaign 2012.
The new districts are Prabudh Nagar, Panchsheel Nagar and Bhim Nagar. With this, the total number of districts has now gone up to 75 in the state.
Addressing a public meeting at Shamli, the new district headquarters of Prabudh Nagar, carved out of two tehsils (Shamli and Kairana) of Muzzafarnagar district on Day 1 of her inspection tour, Mayawati repeated her commitment to reservation for Muslims, the poor among the upper castes and inclusion of Jats in the OBC quota.
While Hapur and Garh Mukteshwar have been re-christened as Panchsheel Nagar, Moradabad’s Sambhal and Chandausi tehsils have been made into a new district called Bhim Nagar. Incidentally, this is the second district in the state named after Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar. Already, an Ambedkar Nagar district was carved out of Faizabad.
Mayawati hit out at the Congress-led Central government as well as the previous BJP-led NDA government for not addressing the popular demand of trifurcation of Uttar Pradesh by creating Bundelkhand, Harit Pradesh and Purvanchal.
Underlining her commitment for creation of smaller and more manageable administrative units, including districts and tehsils, Mayawati said that she had, in fact, repeatedly written to the Centre for creation of the new states of Harit Pradesh, Purvanchal and Bundelkhand but had not received any response.
Chief Minister Mayawati today formally announced the creation of three new districts in western Uttar Pradesh and reiterated a number of populist demands targeted at her vote bank kickstarting her election campaign 2012.
The new districts are Prabudh Nagar, Panchsheel Nagar and Bhim Nagar. With this, the total number of districts has now gone up to 75 in the state.
Addressing a public meeting at Shamli, the new district headquarters of Prabudh Nagar, carved out of two tehsils (Shamli and Kairana) of Muzzafarnagar district on Day 1 of her inspection tour, Mayawati repeated her commitment to reservation for Muslims, the poor among the upper castes and inclusion of Jats in the OBC quota.
While Hapur and Garh Mukteshwar have been re-christened as Panchsheel Nagar, Moradabad’s Sambhal and Chandausi tehsils have been made into a new district called Bhim Nagar. Incidentally, this is the second district in the state named after Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar. Already, an Ambedkar Nagar district was carved out of Faizabad.
Mayawati hit out at the Congress-led Central government as well as the previous BJP-led NDA government for not addressing the popular demand of trifurcation of Uttar Pradesh by creating Bundelkhand, Harit Pradesh and Purvanchal.
Underlining her commitment for creation of smaller and more manageable administrative units, including districts and tehsils, Mayawati said that she had, in fact, repeatedly written to the Centre for creation of the new states of Harit Pradesh, Purvanchal and Bundelkhand but had not received any response.
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