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factor as many tehsils of Punjab have more population than Kot
Addu.
III. There is no need of converting Kot Addu into a district on
administrative grounds either. In such an era of communication and
transportation, it is not difficult for a deputy commissioner based in
district headquarters to exercise control therefrom. The inhabitants
of Tehsil Kot Addu benefit equally from this improvement of
communication/transportation links too.
IV. Creating a new district entails huge financial burden on provincial
exchequer as not only human resource needs would increase by
manifold but also infrastructure, including offices and residences of
government functionaries, would have to be built. Such a creation
shall therefore be resorted to under exceptional compulsions only,
which are missing in the given case. This factor becomes all the more
important in the backdrop of over-all economic scenario of the
province as well the country.
V. Finally, and most importantly, when an old district is partitioned and
a new district is created, it not only breaks the latter from the
common past, history and heritage but has an adverse impact on the
original district on these counts too.

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