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Mancherial district
Mancherial district
District
	Yellampelli project
	Location in Telangana
	Coordinates (Mancherial): 18°52′17″N 79°26′40″E / 18.871454°N 79.444361°E
Country	India
State	Telangana
Division	Mancherial
Headquarters	Mancherial
Mandalas	18
Government
• District collector	Sri. Kumar Deepak, IAS
• Parliament Constituencies	Peddapalli
• Assembly constituencies	Mancherial,Chennur,Bellampalli
• MP	Vamsi Krishna Gaddam
Area
• Total	4,016 km2 (1,551 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	807,037
• Density	200/km2 (520/sq mi)
• Urban	353,847
Time zone	UTC+05:30 (IST)
Vehicle registration	TG–19
Major highways	NH 63, SH1Rajiv rahadari NH 363, NH163G Mancherial- Vijayawada GFH
Website	mancherial.telangana.gov.in

Mancherial district is a district located in the northern region of the Indian state of Telangana.^[2]^[3] The district comprises 18 mandals and two revenue divisions – Mancherial and Bellampalli. The district headquarters is located at Mancherial town.^[4] It is surrounded by Komaram Bheem, Nirmal, Jagtial, Peddapalli and Bhupalpally districts of Telangana and with Maharashtra state.

History

Mancherial district was created out of Adilabad district in 2016 during the general reorganization of districts in Telangana.^[5]

Administrative divisions

The district has two revenue divisions of Mancherial, Bellampally which are sub-divided into 18 mandals.^[6] Sri. Kumar Deepak, IAS is the present collector of the district.^[7] Mancherial District Revenue Divisions Mandals Information List:^[8]

Chennur Revenue Division	Mancherial Revenue Division	Bellampally Revenue Division
Chennur	Luxettipet	Kasipet
Jaipur	Mancherial	Bellampally
Bheemaram (new)	Naspur (new)	Vemanpally
Kotapally	Hajipur (new)	Nennel
Mandamarri	Dandepalle	Tandur
Asnad (new)	Jannaram	Bheemini
Parpally (new)		Kannepally (new)

Geography

The district is spread over an area of 4,056.36 square kilometres (1,566.17 sq mi).^[9] It shares borders with Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra on the east, Jayashankar Bhupalpally, Peddapalli and Jagitial districts to the south, Nirmal district to the west and Kumaram Bheem district to the north.

The district is very fertile plains fed by the Godavari river, which forms the southern border of the district.

Demographics

Religion in Mancherial district (2011)^[10]

Hinduism			92.55%
Islam			5.58%
Christianity			0.98%
Other or not stated			0.89%

As of 2011^[update] Census of India, the district has a population of 807,037. Mancherial has a sex ratio of 977 females to 1000 males and a literacy rate of 64.35%. There are 148,377 farmers and 344,785 labourers. 73,725 (9.14%) were under 6 years of age. 353,847 (43.85%) lived in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 199,493 (24.72%) and 56,969 (7.06%) of the population respectively.^[11]^[12]

Languages of Mancherial district (2011)^[13]

Telugu (88.08%)

Urdu (5.13%)

Lambadi (1.67%)

Marathi (1.60%)

Gondi (1.44%)

Others (2.08%)

At the time of the 2011 census, 88.08% of the population spoke Telugu, 5.13% Urdu, 1.67% Lambadi, 1.60% Marathi and 1.44% Gondi as their first language.^[13]

Tourist places

Kawal Tiger Reserve is a nature preserve located at Jannaram mandal of Mancherial District
Pranahita Wildlife Sanctuary. Covers 136 square kilometres (53 sq mi) and is famous for Blackbuck, otherwise known as Indian antelope.
Shivaram Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife preserve in Mancherial district, located 10 km from Manthani, 40 km from Peddapalli, 80 km from Karimnagar and 30 km from Godavarikhani. This riverine forest mixed with teak and terminalia is spread over 36.29 square kilometres (14.01 sq mi)
Gudem Satyanarana Swamy temple, Gudem Village, in Dandepalle mandal Mancherial district.

Transport

Mancherial is well connected with all types of transport facilities major are Road and Rail. Mancherial railway station is the train station with code: MCI.

Telangana State Road Transport CorporationTSRTC has its depot in Mancherial connecting transportation facility to the citizens to every village and city of Mancherial district

Road

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NH 63 Jagdalpur to yedashi via renapur latur bodhan nizamabad passes through Mancherial.

NH 363 A new National highway is being constructed from Mancherial to Chandrapur.

Also another new National highway is sanctioned from Jaipur Mandal to Warangal via Manthani and Bhupalpally. This Highway is named as Green Industrial corridor by NHAI.