Karnataka Cabinet Apporves To Form2 New Districts

Bangalore: The Karnataka Cabinet has cleared the proposal to form two new districts to decentralise administration and reduce the burden on the existing districts. The two new districts to be carved out are Ramanagaram and Chikkaballapura. Ramanaragam, represented by chief minister HD Kumaraswamy, will be carved out of Bangalore Rural District. Chikkaballapura, located 52 kilometres from Bangalore, will be carved out of Kolar district. With this, the number of districts in Karnataka will touch 29 from the existing 27. The government has already made a budgetary allocation of Rs 72.58 crore this fiscal to create the needed infrastructure in the two new districts.