The Andhra Pradesh Government has completed the process of taking over the seven mandals that they got from Telangana as per the AP Re-Organisation Act.

These mandals come under the submergence area once the Polavaram Project is completed.

"We have completed the administrative takeover process. All the government employees working in these areas will get salaries from Andhra Pradesh Government from December (salary payable in January)," Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary I Y R Krishna Rao, has said after discussing the issue with Collectors of East and West Godavari districts.

The government will issue the Criminal Code jurisdiction notification in a week. A new Revenue Division would be set up with Yetipaka (near Bhadrachalam) as its headquarters to take care of the administration in these mandals.

Several Adivasi associations and non-governmental organisations have been opposing the Project and the transfer of mandals to Andhra Pradesh, saying that thousands of people would be uprooted.

But Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao (KCR) had gone on record saying that the government could do little as the Act called for transfer of the mandals to Andhra Pradesh.

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