Bhoodan Pochampally is a
census town in 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 ...
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 ...
of
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 ...
. It is located in Pochampalle
mandal of
Bhongir division.
This village is Known for woven products, especially hand-woven Ikkat sarees. There are thousands of looms in the village that produce large quantities of sarees. In 2004, Pochampalli saree also received a geographical indication (GI) tag. This village was one among the three nominated under the category of best tourism villages by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation.
Geography
Bhoodan Pochampally is located at (17.3461, 78.8122).
History
![Nalgonda mandals Pochampalli pre 2016](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Nalgonda_mandals_Pochampalli_pre_2016.png)
On 18 April 1951, the historic day of the very genesis of the
Bhoodan movement,
Vinoba Bhave
Vinayak Narahari, also known as Vinoba Bhave (; 11 September 1895 – 15 November 1982), was an Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights. Often called ''Acharya'' (Sanskrit teacher), he is best known for the Bhoodan Movement. He is con ...
entered the
Pochampally Mandal in Nalgonda district, the center of Communist activity. The organizers had arranged
Vinoba's stay at
Pochampally, a large village with about 700 families, of whom two-third were landless.
Pochampally villagers gave
Vinoba a warm welcome. By early afternoon villagers began to gather around Vinoba at Vinoba's cottage. The villagers asked for eighty acres of land, forty wet, forty dry for forty families that would be enough. Then Vinoba asked," If it is not possible to get land from the government, is there not something villagers themselves could do?" To everyone's surprise, Pochampally Zamindhar Rao Bahadur Gopal Rao Pochampally got up and said in a rather excited voice: "I will give you 1000 acres for these people". his promise to offer 1000 acres of land to the villagers. This incident which is neither planned nor imagined was the very genesis of the Bhoodan movement and it made
Vinoba think that there in lay the potentiality of solving the land problem of India. This movement later on developed into a village gift or Gramdan movement. As the huge, massive and magnificent movement called
Bhoodan Movement was born in this
Pochampally, the village was renamed to Bhoodan Pochampally.
In 1999, the weaving industry of Bhoodan Pochampally came to limelight when a young weaver
Chithakindhi Mallesham developed a machine for automating the time-consuming, laborious and painful ''Asu'' process of winding of yarn before the dyeing and weaving is done. The innovation was recognized by
National Innovation Foundation – India.
Recognition of Asu Machine by National Innovation Foundation
See also
* Pochampally Saree
* Bhoodan Movement
References
External links
Special Story On Bhoodan Pochampally Village , UNWTO Best Tourism Village
V6 News (via youtube), November 2021.
{{Yadadri district
Mandal headquarters in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district