Banswada is a

Town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

and Revenue division in

Kamareddy district Kamareddy district is a district located in the northern region of the Indian state of Telangana. The district shares boundaries with Medak, Nizamabad, Sangareddy, Siddipet and Rajanna Sircilla districts and with the state boundary of Maharas ...

of the

Indian state India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, with a total of 36 entities. The states and union territories are further subdivided into districts and smaller administrative divisions. History Pre-indepen ...

Telangana Telangana (; , ) is a States and union territories of India, state in India situated on the south-central stretch of the Indian subcontinent, Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the List of states and union territories of India b ...

Geography

Banswada is located at . It has an average elevation of 371 meters (1220 feet).

Politics

Earlier, Banswada was a major Grama Panchayat with 20 election wards. Then, after 11 January 2018, Banswada was upgraded to municipality grade 3 .MCB (Purapalaka Sangam Banswada). It was also the filming location for the film

Fidaa ''Fidaa'' () is a 2017 Indian Telugu-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Sekhar Kammula, and produced by Dil Raju under Sri Venkateswara Creations banner. The film stars Sai Pallavi (in her Telugu debut) with Varun Tej in the ...

. In July 2019 Banswada municipality is divided in to 19 election wards, Banswada municipality electors are above 20000, total municipality population above 34000.

Transport

Banswada is situated on Hyderabad-Medak-Bodhan- Bhainsa National Highway No. 765D. The nearest railway stations are at Nizamabad, Bodhan and

Kamareddy Kamareddy is a town and headquarters of eponymous district in Telangana state in India. It is located about north of the state capital Hyderabad, from Nizamabad and from Karimnagar. Geography Kamareddy is located at . It covers an area ...

. The

Telangana State Road Transport Corporation Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (abbreviated as TSRTC) is a state-owned corporation that runs bus transport services to and from the Indian state of Telangana. It was formed in 2014 by splitting the Andhra Pradesh State Road Trans ...

operates bus services from Banswada to many cities and towns. Banswada (BSWD) has a TSRTC depot, which opened on 6 March 1993. Many buses from Banswada to Warangal (via Nizamabad), Adilabad, Bidar, Aurad, Hanegaon, Malegaon-Chandegaon, Hyderabad, JBS, Pitlam-JBS, Bichkunda-JBS, Bodhan-Hyderabad, Nizamabad-Hyderabad, Kamareddy-JBS, Medak-Hyderabad, Medak-Jbs, Deglore, Udgir, Kangti, Zehirabad, Sangareddy, Patancher, and Degulwadi.

Assembly constituency

Banswada is an assembly constituency in Telangana.

Pocharam Srinivas Reddy Pocharam Srinivas Reddy Parige is an Indian politician who is the current and 2nd Speaker of the Telangana Legislative Assembly from 17 January 2019 and Member of the Telangana Legislative Assembly from Banswada constituency. He was the Minist ...

from the

Telangana Rashtra Samithi Bharat Rashtra Samithi ( ; BRS), formerly known as Telangana Rashtra Samithi ( TRS), is an Indian political party which is predominantly active in the state of Telangana. It was founded on 27 April 2001 as by K. Chandrashekar Rao, with a singl ...

was elected in the 2018 Assembly Elections as a

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(MLA), earlier he resigned for the cause of Separate State of Telangana and joined the

party on 25 March 2011. The Election Commission has re-conducted bypoll elections. This time Pocharam Srinivas Reddy has won the elections from the Telangana Rashtra Samithi party with a huge majority of nearly 50,000 votes on 17 October 2011.

Health services

There is one area hospital under Telangana Vaidya Vidhana Parishad in Kamareddy district.APVVP.Hospitals
* Anvita Hospital * Babu Shinde Hospital * Jivan Reddy Hospital * Balaji Hospital * Global dental Hospital * Bindu shree Hospital * Jagruti Hospital * Manjeera Multi Speciality Hospital * 7 Hills Hospital

References

{{Kamareddy district Cities and towns in Kamareddy district