Gudur is a village and also a mandal in

Mahabubabad Mahabubabad is a town and the district headquarters of Mahabubabad district in the Indian state of Telangana. It is on the west bank of the Munneru, which is one of the tributaries of the River Krishna. Mahabubabad is known for the Bayyaram Mine ...

District of

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State,

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. The Gudur mandal headquarters are situated in Gudur.

Geography

Gudur is located at 17.7975° N, 79.9794° E, spread over an area of 2864 hectares. Gudur is situated between Narsampet and Mahabubabad towns of

District. It has an average elevation of 222 meters.

History

Gudur has significant leaders who played a prominent roles in the

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and sacrificed their lives.

Demographics

According to

2011 Census of India The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. The House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved the collection of information about all buildings. Information ...

, Gudur has a population of 11174 and number of households are 2574. Female Population is 50.2%. Its literacy rate is 57.4% and the female literacy rate is 24.5%. It has significant amount of scheduled tribes population, called Lambadas with about 43.7%.

Mines

Gudur mandal is rich in Iron ore which is spread over 2500 hectares. In 2010, the erstwhile AP Government has allocated 5,342 hectares of Iron ore mining to a joint venture of AP Minerals Development Corporation Ltd and Rakshana Consortium, a private company and was cancelled in 2013 by AP Govt headed by Kiran Kumar Reddy and he allocated them to the Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd. (VSP). It led to a controversy and the Ministry of Mines cancelled all permits to mine Iron ore in this region. In 2014, Telangana State had emerged and TRS Party has formed the government with one of the slogans ''Bayyaram Ukku, Telangana Hakku.''

Villages

There are 25 villages in Gudur Mandal. They are the following:

References

Villages in Mahabubabad district {{Telangana-geo-stub