Government's Plan to Upgrade Rural Local Bodies Draws Mixed Response

AS the state government announced last December its move to merge some rural villages with nearby urban local bodies and upgrade the village panchayat into town panchayats, members of the district administration conducted a meeting at the collectorate on Tuesday to get people's opinion on it.

- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @Krishnagiri

As some people objected to the merger, few others asked the officials to merge more villages into Krishnagiri municipality.

Supporting the merger of Kattiganapalli panchayat with Krishnagiri Municipality, S K Nawab, DMK Krishnagiri town secretary said, already a resolution was passed in Krishnagiri municipality to merge eight village panchayats to it. However, the government later considered to merge only one panchayat. At least two more panchayats like Baiyanapalli and Venkatapuram should also be merged to evade the tollgate issue.