Reservations finalised for 1,077 village panchayats

As per the guidelines prescribed by the State government the district administration has finalised the reservations to various categories in the forthcoming elections to the village panchayats in the district. The RDOs of respective divisions in the district submitted the final list of reserved categories to the women, backward classes, scheduled castes and tribes in the divisions of Sangareddy, Siddhipet and Medak divisions in the district as per the ratio determined by the State government.

District Collector A Dinakar Babu and District Panchayat Officer Aruna released the list of reservation details among the 1077 village panchayats in the district to the media on Thursday. The collector said that the elections would be conducted to the newly formed 32 village panchayats also in the elections. "However, there would not be elections to the village panchayats regarding which the high court issued stay orders," he added.

He said that the reservations were allotted transparently without any scope for political interference. He said that he had issued show-cause notices to the Siddhipet RDO, Sangareddy RDO and DLPO for releasing the list of reservations in advance.