Adilabad will be bifurcated and named Komaram Bheem,KCR

komaramTelangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao announced on Wednesday that Adilabad district to be split and the new district will be named after tribal leader Komaram Bheem.

KCR said this on the occasion of 74th death anniversary of Komaram Bheem at Jodeghat in the district.  The leader died while fighting the Nizam’s forces, will be developed into a tourist spot. He said the government will build a memorial at a cost of Rs 25 crore on 100 acres. The memorial will be ready within a year.

KCR is the first chief minister to visit Jodeghat to pay tributes to the tribal leader. He claimed that Andhra rulers had ignored Bheem, who fought for the rights of tribals over jal (water), jungle (forest) and zameen (land). The chief minister also announced Rs 10 lakh as financial assistance to the family of Bheem and promised to provide government job to one of them.

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