Telangana to get back 4 or 5 villages

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has said four or five villages that have been merged with Andhra Pradesh will be reunited with this State. The Chief Minister, who toured Khammam district on Monday, said he had broached the subject with his AP counterpart, Chandrababu Naidu, who agreed with him that the four or five villages would be given back. The Chief Minister, however, did not clarify whether the four or five villages were the ones that were crucial for taking up the Polavaram project. If the four or five were part of the eight villages demanded by Telangana at the time of the combined AP split, no Chief Minister could afford to lose them,because Polavaram was to be the lifeline of East Godavari and Visakhapatnam districts. KCR added that the people of the four or five villages, which he did not name, could look forward to development. He further said that his government was prepared to split Khammam into two districts and also the setting up of a mining university in the district.