Whether separate Telangana State will form or not, but Telangana is going to have more districts. Though the state government says it is doing this exercise only to set right the serious imbalances in the development of rural Telangana areas, political analysts say that this is being done purely to distract from the separate state issue.

AP Rural development minister Dokka Manikya Varaprasad is expected to submit his study paper in this regard to the government by the end of this month. He said that lack of administration in the interior areas of the existing districts was the "real hurdle in extending the fruits of various government schemes to the poor." Sources said the study paper is likely to insist upon creating at least eight to 10 new districts in the state. The minister felt that AP deserves to have at least 35 districts. He said, "They could start by bifurcating big and completely undeveloped districts, which alone would add at least seven districts to the existing 23. No district should have more than 30-35 mandals for better monitoring of government schemes against the current number of 50-60 mandals."

As per the source, if the study paper gets the cabinet's nod, a new district of Nallamala will be formed by merging the underdeveloped Palnadu region in Guntur with Markapuram division in Prakasam district and a new tribal district could be a formed by merging the Agency mandals of both East and West Godavari districts. Similarly, the paper suggests that parts of West Krishna district could be clubbed with Khammam to create a new district of Bhadrachalam.