Mahabubabad district


Mahabubabad district is a district in the Indian state of Telangana. It was a part of the Warangal district prior to the re-organisation of districts in the state in October 2016.The district shares boundaries with Suryapet, Khammam, Bhadradri Kothagudem, Warangal Rural, Jayashankar Bhupalpalle and Jangaon districts.
It consists of Dornakal, Mahabubabad, Maripeda, Thorrur Municipalities.

Geography

The district is spread over an area of. The region is mostly plain with occasional hillocks. Most of the land is used for agriculture.The mandals Bayyaram and Garla have rich iron ore and coal deposits.It also has Bheemunipadam waterfall and Edubavula waterfall. There are several popular hillocks such as Pandavula Guttalu in Bayyaram Mandal.
The district is also famous for Kuravi Veerabhadra Swamy temple

Demographics

, the district has a population of 774,549. Percentage of males is 50.10% and 49.9% females. Most of the population lives in villages with 90.14% rural population and 9.86% urban population. Literacy percentage of the district is 57.1% below the state average of 66.5%. The district has significant amount of scheduled tribes population, called Lambadas with about 37.8% whereas scheduled castes are about 13.5%.

Administrative divisions

The district has two revenue divisions, Mahabubabad and Thorrur and is sub-divided into 16 mandals. Sri V.P.Goutham, IAS is the present district collector and Mr. M David is the present joint collector. The Superindent of Police is Mr. Nandhyala Koti Reddy. Mrs.Maloth Kavitha is the MP from the district. There are MLAs from the district, namely Mr. Bhanoth Shankar Nayak, D.S. Redya Naik, Azmeera Chandulal, Errabelli Dayakar Rao.

Mandals

The district has sixteen mandals.
The following are the list of mandals.