Population explosion
The Uppal municipality on the city outskirts recorded 223 per cent growth in electorate in a decade.
These figures are contained in statistics compiled for the delimitation of Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies. The figures also underline the magnitude of migration to urban areas.
In the 1930s the ratio of rural to urban electorate in the state was 75:25. It is now pegged at 36:64 in favour of urban electorate. According to figures, the electorate grew at 223 per cent at Uppal, 108 per cent at Lingampally, 112 per cent at Kutbullapur between 1991 and 2001.
Many rural constituencies therefore have been abolished and seats have come up in cities and towns. Hyderabad and its surrounding areas got as many as 13 new Assembly constituencies and a Lok Sabha seat. Jubilee-Banjara Hills and Bahadurpura were created as new constituencies in Hyderabad district.
Ranga Reddy district got Serilingampally, Kukatpally, Malkajigiri, Uppal, LB Nagar, Rajendra Nagar, Kutbullapur, Maheswaram as new constituencies. Medak district got a new constituency, Patancheru. Visakhapatnam has got three more constituencies; it will now elect five legislators. Vijayawada got a third seat, Kakinada and Rajamundry got additional seats.
“The pace of the exodus needs urgent review,” said Mr V. Prakash, TRS general secretary. “Urban numbers are on the rise in the entire country,” said Mr I. Ravi Kumar, an expert in the delimitation process. “But the growth in Hyderabad is phenomenal.”
Source: Deccan Chronicle
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