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The Andhra Pradesh government, led by Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, has formed 13 new districts under the AP Districts Formation Act. Now, there are a total of 26 districts in the Andhra Pradesh.
The Andhra Pradesh government headed by chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has issued a notification setting up new districts in AP.
The notification was issued specifying the revenue boundaries and district centres of the total 26 districts.
The notification said that 26 districts would be formed instead of 13 districts and announced the same old names for the districts now formed with district centres.

The state has 25 Lok Sabha constituencies and each is supposed to be made a revenue district. However, with its size being too large and spread over many districts, the tribal-dominated Araku Lok Sabha constituency is being split into two new districts.
The two new tribal districts will be Manyam, with headquarters in Parvathipuram, and Alluri Sitarama Raju, named after the legendary Telugu freedom fighter with headquarters in Paderu.
The other new districts are Anakapalli (out of the existing Visakhapatnam district), Konaseema and Kakinada (out of East Godavari), Eluru (out of West Godavari), NTR (out of Krishna), Bapatla and Palnadu (out of Guntur), Nandyal (out of Kurnool), Sri Satya Sai (out of Anantapuramu), Annamayya (out of Kadapa) and Sri Balaji (out of Chittoor).
The headquarters of the existing East Godavari district is being shifted to Rajamahendravaram and that of West Godavari to Bhimavaram.

Though he was born in the other part of Krishna district, falling under the Machilipatnam Lok Sabha constituency, the government chose to name the newly created district (spread over Vijayawada Lok Sabha constituency) after the Telugu legend N T Rama Rao (NTR).

In line with its 2019 election-eve promise, the state government led byY S Jagan Mohan Reddy, initiated the district reorganization process in August 2020. However, it could not go ahead because of the impending Census operations and the ban on redrawing the geographical boundaries.
Now, with the Centre easing the ban till July, the state government is seeking to fast-track the new districts formation.
Accordingly, a Cabinet note was electronically circulated to the ministers on Tuesday and their approval was obtained. Simultaneously, the government sent the draft proposals to all district Collectors, with a direction that they send their views by return mail.

Andhra Pradesh is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India.^[11] It is the seventh-largest state by area covering.
Capital – Amaravati
Chief minister –YS Jagan Mohan Reddy
Governor –Biswabhushan Harichandan
Important national parks – Papikonda National Park, Rajiv Gandhi (Rameswaram) National Park, Sri Venkateswara National Park