Kodumur or Kodumuru is a town and assembly constituency in

Kurnool District Kurnool district is one of the eight districts in the Rayalaseema region of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located in the North western part of the state and is bounded by Jogulamba Gadwal district of Telangana in the north, Raich ...

in the state of

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. The town currently is maintained by Jaradoddi Sudhakar, a member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) and is under control of the Yuvajana Sramika Rythu

YSR Congress Party The Yuvajana Shramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP or YCP; ) is an Indian regional political party based in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Its president Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy serves as the state's chief minister. It is currently the fifth lar ...

Former chief ministers Sri Damodaram Sanjeevaiah and

Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy (16 August 1920 – 27 September 2001) served as the chief minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in 1983 and then from 1992 to 1994. Reddy was a member of the Indian National Congress and was elected t ...

belong to this constituency. It comes under the Kurnool Parliamentary constituency and is the only SC reserved assembly constituency under the Kurnool Parliament segment. Agriculture is the main source of income for the people of Kodumur, with

Cotton Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus ''Gossypium'' in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose, and can contain minor perce ...

, Castor oil seeds,

Red gram The pigeon pea (''Cajanus cajan'') is a perennial legume from the family Fabaceae native to the Old World. The pigeon pea is widely cultivated in tropical and semitropical regions around the world, being commonly consumed in South Asia, Southeast ...

and vegetables as the main crops. Tungabhadra Project Low Level Canal, the Handri-Neeva Sujala Sravanthi project (HNSS) Main Canal, and the Gajuladinne Project (GDP) Canal (renamed the Sanjeevaiah Sagar), are the main irrigation sources. A major portion of the area of this

mandal A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

(administrative division) is arid. Of note, the Kondala Rayudu Temple of Kodumur has a scorpion festival.

Geography

Kodumuru has an average elevation of 342 meters above sea level. The River Hundri passes nearby Kodumur, almost touching every village in the mandal. At Laddagiri Village, the River Hundri meets the Pala Hundri and then the Tungabhadra at Roja near Kurnool. Most of the mandal is covered by inorganic clay ("black cotton") soil, but iron and aluminum-enriched red soil is present in the village of Yerradoddi, and in parts of the Pulakurthi, Pyalakurthi and Laddagiri villages. The entire mandal comes under the Tungabhadra water basin, which is part of the Krishna basin. This mandal receives among the lowest rainfall in the state.

References

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