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Welcome to Telangana, the newest State of India to be created soon. The Central government in New Delhi on Wednesday night conceded to the demand for a separate Telangana state for which the process will be initiated and an appropriate resolution will be moved in the Andhra Pradesh assembly shortly. The decision was taken at a late night meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had with Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah after two rounds of consultations in the Congress Core Committee with Sonia Gandhi [ Images ] and senior cabinet colleagues.

(Photo/Picture: Telanganga State Map showings its districts. Click for bigger Pic).

Telengana region, often also written as Telingana or Telengana, means “land of Telugus”; like the rest of Andra Pradesh, the absolute majority are Telugu speaking people. However, the people in the region have their own distinctive culture and identity.

The newest state in India, Telengana will include Andra Pradesh’s northwestern area covering nine districts of Warangal, Adilabad, Khammam, Mahabubnagar, Nalgonda, Rangareddy, Karimnagar, Nizamabad, Medak, and the state capital, Hyderabad.

The new land-locked state will be bordered by 6 States, namely, from clockwise, Maharashtra, on northwest and north; Chhatisgarh in the North, Orissa, in the northeast, Andra Pradesh in the East and South, and Karnataka in the West.

Telangana region accounts for 119 of the 294 assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh and 17 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats.

How big is Telangana state?
In land area, Telangana with 1,14,800 sq.km size will be among big states. It will be bigger than states like West Bengal (88,752 km), Bihar (99,200 sq.km) and slightly smaller than Tamil Nadu, 130,058 sq.km.

Andra Pradesh will be reduced to 160,808 sq.Km.

What is the Population of Telangana?

According to the latest figure available (2001), Telangana has about 23,873,307 (24 millions) of people, out of the total 76 million populations of Andra Pradesh.

The fate of Hyderabad:

Hyderabad could well become a Union Territory like Chandigarh, and it may become the capital of both Andra Pradesh and Telengana.

What about Reyaseeleema Region?

Andra Pradesh is made up of three regions, Andra, the most prosperous region along the East Coast, Telengana in the northwest and Reyaseeleema Region, in the Southwest, comprising four important districts – Kurnool, Cuddapah, Anantapur and Chittoor; and parts of Prakasam and Nellore districts. This could be still another problem. See the map below:

(Map shwoing Reyalaseema, Telengana and Andra region of Andra Pradesh. Click for bigg picture).