Hyderabad:Telangana formally became the country's 29th state today but it would take a while before it is reflected in the official geographical and political map as the Ministry of Home Affairs is yet to provide boundary details to Survey of India.
We are yet to get details from the MHA. Based on that, our teams will incorporate boundaries up to village level," the official said. When contacted, Surveyor General of India, Swarna Subbarao, said it would take ten days to draw Telangana map after getting details from the MHA.
Survey of India, the national survey and mapping organisation of the country under the Department of Science and Technology, tasked with printing of new maps of India with 29 states, is yet to get the final drawings of some mandals merged into Andhra Pradesh with regard to Polavaram project, the official added.
The Union government had last week promulgated an ordinance merging some villages and mandals of Khammam district in Telangana with Andhra Pradesh (Seemandhra) in a bid to deal with resettlement and rehabilitation of those displaced by the Polavaram project.
The ordinance enables land-for-land in the same revenue division where people will be displaced.Poonam Malakondaiah, Principal Secretary of School Education, meanwhile, said they are yet to get official map which will be used to incorporate in school text books."Our apex committee is dealing with the issue of getting official map. As of now we have not received any from the Ministry. We are waiting for that," Malakondaiah said.
