Comparison of Telangana and Seemandhra

	Seemandhra	Telangana
CM & party	C. Chandrababu Naidu Telugu Desham Party (TDP)	K. Chandrshekhar Rao Telangana Rastra Samiti
Governor	ESL Narsinhman	Same
HC Chief Justice	Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta	Same
seat/bench of HC	Common HC – Hyderabad	Same
Secretariat @	Hyderabad	Same
Capital	greater Hyderabad	Same
Lok Sabha seats	25	17
Rajya Sabha seats	11	7
Vidhan sabha seats	175	119
population	5 cr	3.5 cr
no. of districts	13	Originally 10 + 14 new => 24
Area	1.6 lakh sqkm	1.14 sq km
Major port	Duggirajupatnam, Vishakhapatnam	NA
Oil/gas royalties	According to production in their territory	same
NTPC	–	new power plant
Electricity from Central Power stations	In the ratio of consumption in last five years	Same
River water	Union government will form a central body to decide water allocation.	Same
important rivers /dams	Godavari,  Penneru Ri, Gundla Kamma	Palleru ri.Muneru ri. ,Hallia ri, Dindi ri, – all tributaries of Krishna
Wildlife	1.              Lake Pulicat, 2.              lake Kolleru 3.              Neelapattu bird sanctuary	1.              Pocharam 2.              Kawal 3.              Pakhal 4.              Eturnagaram  Wild Life Sanctuaries
Tourism	Horsely hill station, Borru caves, Araku valley (natural heritage site), Vishakhapatnam	Chitrakoot falls
Tirupati temple	here	–
important cities/towns	Vishakhapatnam, Rajamundry, Vijayvada,	Warangal, Adilabad, Nizamabad
historic places/temples	Tirupati balaji, Lepakshi temples, Amaravati	Warangal, Palampet,
elite edu	–	separate IIT/IIM/AIIMs under 12thand 13th FYP
shares border with these states	Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and  Odisha	Karnataka, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Odisha

Ø     Original Andhra Pradesh was formed in 1956 under state reorganization act, 1956

Ø     Telangana formed in 2014, under Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014

Nagarjuna – Shrisailam Tiger Reserve:

·        Largest tiger reserve of India

·        Its area is in both Telengana (Mahbubnagar and Nalgonda) +  Seemandhra (Telangana , Kurnool, Guntur and Prakasam)