Rayagada district was carved out as a separate district from Koraput district on 2nd October 1992. It was the vision of late Biju Patnaik, the popular leader and erstwhile CM of Orissa of geographically rationalize the district for administrative convinience and the benefit of the people and so on that same day from the earlier 13 number of districts, the number was increased to 30. However the objective of creation of separate districts remained partially achieved to a great extent with many line department head offices in Koraput till recent times and some of them, such as mining section, GED, IDCO. Also district court even now continues to be in Koraput district.
One of the most glaring example is that of the Collectorate building. For more than 15 years there was no Collectorate building! Collector and district Magistrate used to function for some time in an old dilapidated building belonging to Rayagada Municipality, wher eis presently used for temporary functioning of Kendriya Vidyalaya. Just a couple of years back the present Collectorate building was completed. However it is still 1/4 th of the actual size and as many as * sections still run in temporary accommodation in different locations. PWD has recently, after the pursuance of Collector Rayagada, taken some steps to that end, but still no 'concrete' result has come so far. At present only four sections function in this building and there is virtually no space for storing files and records. this dislocation of several section has hampered the functioning of the district administration for many years and at time has resulted in misplacing of files and important documents, besides causing problems of monitoring and supervision.
Collector Rayagada has clarified that he has already written to government more than once about this and expects some positive result shortly.
