Jayashankar Bhupalpally district is a

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in the

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Telangana Telangana is a States and union territories of India, state in India situated in the Southern India, south-central part of the Indian subcontinent on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, ele ...

. The district headquarters are located at Bhupalpally. It was a part of the erstwhile

Warangal district Warangal district (formerly Warangal Rural district) is a district in the Indian state of Telangana. The district shares boundaries with Mahabubabad, Jangaon, Hanamkonda, Mulugu and Bhupalpally districts. As of June 2021, Hanamkonda tenta ...

and Karimnagar district prior to the re-organisation of districts in the state. The district share boundaries with

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, Mancherial, Peddapalli,

Hanamkonda Hanamakonda is a major city and the district headquarters of Hanamkonda district in the state of Telangana. It is about 150 KM away from the state Capital Hyderabad and about 7KM away from former district Head quarters Warangal. It is also one ...

Warangal Warangal () is a city in the Indian state of Telangana and the district headquarters of Warangal district. It is the second largest city in Telangana with a population of 811,844 per 2011 Census of India, and spreading over an . Warangal serv ...

, and Mulugu districts and with the state boundary of

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and

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. The world's largest multi-stage lift irrigation project Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project is in Jayashankar Bhupalpally District and Jayashankar Bhupalpally District falls Under naxal affected district as per Red corridor.

Geography

The district is spread over an area of . Jayashankar district is bounded on north by Mancherial district and

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, on the northeast by Bijapur district of

, on the southeast by Mulugu district, on the south by

, on west by

and Peddapalli districts.

Demographics

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, the district has a population of 416,763. 207,998 are males and 208,765 females, a sex ratio of 1004 females per 1000 males. 42,387 (10.17%) lived in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes made up 92,017 (22.08%) and 37,192 (8.92%) of the population respectively. At the time of the 2011 census, 95.34% of the population spoke Telugu, 1.76% Lambadi and 1.59%

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as their first language.

Administrative divisions

The district will have One

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of Bhupalpally and is sub-divided into 11

mandal A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administrative c ...

s. Bhavesh Mishra, IAS is the present collector of the district. The below table categorizes mandals into their respective revenue divisions in the district:

Mandals

The below table categorizes mandals into their respective revenue divisions in the district:

Assembly Constituencies

There are 2 assembly constituencies in Bhupalapally district. They are Bhupalapalle, Manthani Currently Gandra Sathya Narayana Rao is MLA of Bhupalpally and D. Sridhar Babu is The MLA of Manthani.

References

External links

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