Singareni is a village located in

Khammam district Khammam district is a district in the eastern region of the Indian state of Telangana. The city of Khammam is the district headquarters. The district shares boundaries with Suryapet, Mahabubabad, Bhadradri districts and with Eluru and NTR dis ...

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 ...

, India. Coal reserves in Telangana were found first in Singareni. There is a railway line from Singareni that meets the Manuguru- Dornakal railway at

Karepalli Karepalli is a city in the Khammam district in Telangana, India where the railway track from Singareni collieries meets the Manuguru-Dornakal railway line. Karepalli is the Mandal headquarters of Singareni Mandal. It comes under the Wyra Assem ...

junction.

Transport

Singareni railway station was also called

Yellandu Yellandu is a town in Bhadradri Kothagudem district of the Indian state of Telangana. It is located in Yellandu mandal of Kothagudem revenue division. Geography Yellandu is located at . It has an average elevation of 205 metres (672&n ...

station, and is one of the oldest railway stations in Telangana.

Singareni Colleries

Colleries means a coal mine and all the infrastructure that is part of it, and Singareni Colleries refers to the collieries located at Singareni. The

Singareni Collieries Company The Singareni Collieries Company Limited or SCCL is a government-owned-coal mining corporation in India. It is under the ownership of Department of Energy, Government of Telangana. The Union Government's administration of the company is throu ...

was named after it. However after Hyderabad state was merged into India, the name of the town was changed to Yellandu and the Singareni Colleries railway station was neglected.

References

{{Coord, 17, 30, N, 80, 16, E, display=title, region:IN_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki Villages in Bhadradri Kothagudem district