Bhongir, officially known as, Bhuvanagiri is a district headquarters of the

Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district Yadadri Bhuvanagiri District, is a district in the Indian state of Telangana. The administrative headquarters is located at Bhuvanagiri Town. The district shares boundaries with Suryapet, Nalgonda, Jangaon, Siddipet, Medchal-Malkajgiri and Ra ...

and part of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Region 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 state in India situated on the south-central stretch of the Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the eleventh-largest state and the twelfth-most populated state in India with a geographical area of and 3 ...

. Falling under

Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) is the urban planning agency of Hyderabad in the Indian state of Telangana. The HMDA administers the Hyderabad Metropolitan Region, spread over an area of and covers the districts of Hyder ...

, the town is located on

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& National Highway 161AA (India), about 47 km from state capital Hyderabad Central Point

Etymology

Bhuvanagiri Fort is one of the isolated monolithic rocks carved by the

Western Chalukya The Western Chalukya Empire ruled most of the western Deccan, South India, between the 10th and 12th centuries. This Kannadiga dynasty is sometimes called the ''Kalyani Chalukya'' after its regal capital at Kalyani, today's Basavakalyan in th ...

ruler Tribhuvanamalla Vikramaditya VI and was thus named after him as Tribhuvanagiri. This name gradually became Bhuvanagiri and subsequently Bhongir. The fort is associated with the rule of the Kakatiya queen Rudramadevi and her Grandson Prataparudhra.

Administration

The town was constituted as a city Municipality in the year 1910(4th Oldest in Telangana). Subsequently, it constituted a Municipality in the year 1952, and recently as per the Government orders 3 Nos. Gram panchayats namely Raigiri(North East), Pagidipalli(West) & Bommaipally(South) Areas have been merged in Bhuvanagiri Municipality and town having spread over 76.537 km². The famous Pilgrim of Lord Yadadri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple has located nearby 13 km.

Geography

Bhuvanagiri is located at . It has an average elevation of .

Demographics

As of 2011 India

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses in ...

, Bhuvanagiri had a population of 53,339. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Bhuvanagiri has an average literacy rate of 70%, less than the national average of 74.04%; with male literacy of 78% and female literacy of 61%. 12% of the population is under 6 years of age. As of 2012/2022 India. Bhuvanagiri is Town in Telangana state, Bhuvanagiri Mandal population in 2022 is 132,529. According to the 2011 census of India, the Total Bhuvanagiri population is 103,538 people living in this Mandal, of which 52,720 are male and 50,818 are female. The population of Bhuvanagiri in 2021 is 128,387 Literate people are 66,957 out of 38,396 are male and 28,561 are female. Total workers are 44,778 depending on multi-skills out of which 28,234 are men and 16,544 are women. A total of 5,476 Cultivators are dependent on agriculture farming out of 3,577 are cultivated by men and 1,899 are women. 9,474 people work in agricultural land as labor in Bhuvanagiri, men are 3,775 and 5,699 are women.

Politics

Bhuvanagiri as a

Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-p ...

constituency came into existence in 2008 as per Delimitation Act of 2002. *

Komatireddy Venkat Reddy Komatireddy Venkat Reddy (born 23 May 1965) is an Indian politician from Telangana. He is the Member of Parliament of Bhuvanagiri Parliament Constituency from 2019. He is the star campaigner of Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee from 2022. He ...

is the present MP * Pailla Shekar Reddy is the present MLA

Nearest cities

West (NH163) *

Hyderabad Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part ...

47 km * Uppal X Road, Hyderabad 37 km * Hyderabad City Boundary 14 km * ORR 24 km South (NH161AA) *

Nalgonda Nalgonda is a city and municipality in the Indian state of Telangana. It is the headquarters of the Nalgonda district, as well as the headquarters of the Nalgonda mandal in the Nalgonda revenue division. It is located about from the state ca ...

70 km *

Suryapet Suryapet is a city in the Indian state of Telangana. It is a municipality and the headquarters of its eponymous district. The Government of India announced Suryapet to be developed under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformat ...

114 km East (NH163) *

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 704,570 per 2011 Census of India, and spreading over an . Warangal ser ...

99 km *

Jangaon Jangaon is a town and the district headquarters of Jangaon district in the Indian state of Telangana. It is also the mandal and divisional headquarters of Jangaon Mandal and Jangaon revenue division respectively. It is about from the state c ...

42 km North (NH161AA) *

Gajwel Gajwel, officially Gajwel–Pragnapur, is a town and a municipality in Siddipet district of the Indian state of Telangana. Gajwel–Pragnapur Nagar Panchayat was constituted in 2012. The jurisdiction of the civic body is spread over an area of . ...

45 km

Transport

* Nearest Bus station: Bhuvanagiri (Platform:16)- 0 Km * Nearest Railway Station: Bhuvanagiri (Platform:3) Code:BG- 2.5Km * Nearest Railway Division(All Trains):

Secunderabad Secunderabad, also spelled as Sikandarabad (, ), is a twin cities, twin city of Hyderabad and one of the six zones of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) in the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Telangana. It ...

Code:SC-47Km *Nearest Airport: RGIA Hyderabad(Shamshabad)-69Km

Theatres

There are Five theatres in Bhuvanagiri, including the following: Currently after Covid, Only Three Theatres are running are running in Bhuvanagiri Town. * Omkar 70mm A/c * Vasundhara Theatre * Bhadradri Theatre * KJR Theatre(Bharat Theatre-Closed) * Neelagiri(Closed) * Nearest Multiplex Theatre and Shopping mall are at MJR Asian Cine Square, Narapally, Hyderabad is around 25Km.

Culture

Notable persons from the town are

Raavi Narayana Reddy Raavi Narayana Reddy (5 June 1908 – 7 September 1991) was an Indian politician, a founding member of the Communist Party of India, and a peasant leader. He was a leader in the Telangana Rebellion against the rule of Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah V ...

Alimineti Madhava Reddy Alimineti Madhava Reddy (28 February 1949 – 7 March 2000) was an Indian politician from the state of Andhra Pradesh. He was elected four times to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Bhongir (Assembly constituency), Bhongir constituen ...

Belli Lalitha Belli Lalitha (29 April 1974 – 26 May 1999) was an Indian folk singer and founder of Telangana Kala Samithi who was murdered in 1999. Life She was born in Nancharpet, Atmakur Mandali, Nalgonda district in a Telugu-speaking Kuruma family. She ha ...

, and

Pratyusha Prathyusha (29 August 1981 – 23 February 2002) was an Indian actress who appeared in Telugu and Tamil language films. Early life and film career Pratyusha was born in Bhongir of present-day Telangana into a middle-class family. Her mother, M ...

. There are certain notable landmarks in the town. Bhuvanagiri Fort is one such structure.

Rock Climbing School (RCSB)

Rock Climbing School at Bhuvanagiri Fort, Hyderabad is the training center for rock climbing.

References

External links

{{Historical places of Chalukyas Mandal headquarters in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district