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“Vellore district is big and recommendations for trifurcating it was received from Ministers, MLAs and public. The recommendations were processed and for administrative convenience, Vellore district would be trifurcated into three parts with Tirupattur as district headquarters and Ranipet as other headquarters,” Palaniswami, in his Independence Day address, said.
The Chief Minister also said that a new Taluk with KV Kuppam in Vellore district as headquarters will be formed. The district cooperative milk producers’ union in Vellore, which earlier encompassed Tiruvannamalai district too, has now been bifurcated and a separate district cooperative milk producers’ union with Tiruvannamalai as headquarters would be formed.
According to officials of the Revenue Department, Tirupattur district will have four taluks - Tirupattur, Vaniyambadi, Ambur and Natrampalli while Ranipet district will also have four Taluks- Arcot, Valaja, Nemili and Arakkonam. This is the second split that the Vellore district will witness as in 1989, the North Arcot District was split into two resulting in the formation of Tiruvannamalai Sambuvarayar District and North Arcot Ambedkar district with Vellore as headquarters.
Palaniswami further said that the State government is firm on its decision of two-language policy. “The late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa once said that Hindi should not be imposed on non-Hindi speaking states and if any effort is taken to impose it, the state will fight against it. We are following in the footsteps of Jayalalithaa,” he said.
Recalling the speech of former Chief Minister CN Annadurai in the Assembly on January 1, 1968, Palaniswami said that a resolution was passed to adopt English and Tamil as the two official languages here to completely eradicate Hindi. The same decision was taken by another former CM, M G Ramachandran, who decided on the two-language policy in 1986.
Split For Better Service
TN has 32 districts, some of which are large. With new district headquarters, administration is expected to be more efficient
August 2019: Vellore district will be trifurcated with two new districts being created with Ranipet and Tirupattur as headquarters
July 2019: Chengalpattu district was carved out of Kancheepuram and Tenkasi district by bifurcating Tirunelveli
January 2019: Villupuram district was bifurcated and a new district with Kallakurichi as headquarters was created
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