Gangaram (Mahabubabad District) Explained

Gangaram
Settlement Type:Mandal
Pushpin Map:India Telangana#India
Pushpin Label Position:right
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Telangana, India
Coordinates:17.76°N 80.0547°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: India
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Telangana
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Mahabubabad district
Named For:Koyapatanam
Parts Type:Talukas
Parts:Narsampet
Government Type:Panchayat
Governing Body:Gram Panchayat
Unit Pref:Metric
Elevation M:225
Population Total:2800
Population Density Km2:auto
Demographics Type1:Languages
Demographics1 Title1:Official
Demographics1 Info1:Telugu
Timezone1:IST
Utc Offset1:+5:30
Postal Code Type:PIN
Postal Code:506135
Area Code Type:Telephone code
Area Code:08718/ +918712656967
Registration Plate:TG 26

Gangaram is an agency mandal in Mulugu Constituency of Mahabubabad district of the Indian state of Telangana.[1]

Transportation

Agriculture

PODU LANDS:- Most cultivation is done using ponds and small streams in this area. Major crops are paddy, cotton, maize, grams and some seasonal crops. Due to the fertile lands the people grow 2 crops/year.Gangaram mandal was full of podu agriculture based lands which are acquired by deforestation and cutting down large forest by stakeholders with help of left wing terrorist CPI-ML New Democracy party, which land are belong to state was indiscriminately destroyed by non-adivasi also it affect the eco-culture and wildlife. The agriculture depends on small streams and bore wells in rabi season. Karif depends on monsoon rainfall. The major crops are Paddy, Maize, Cotton and mirchi. Paddy:- The major and monsoon rainfall depends crop near to lakes,streams and bore wells. The rabi crops depends Lake water facilities.

Maize:-This crop is major and in long ranging fields across forest areas. The people have land up to 25 acres of maize land in forest and near to forest areas. This crop depends on bore wells, rain and streams. But many people convert maize to Paddy fields.

Issues in Agriculture:-Deforestation is the main issue to forest department officials, many irrationally and unethical converted forest lands to agriculture lands, So forest department trying it best to convert back by tenching illegal agriculture of forest lands. Rice and maize are dominated crops. Maize was main in podu lands near forest. Rice near villages. Electricity to farmland available. Rice procurement done by government.

Economy

Indian bank in Gangaram mandal. Agriculture mainly practice rice, Maize. Forest Abnus/Beedi leaves cut provide summer revenue to local adivasi. There is no major irrigation projects, majority population depends on agriculture cultivation and forest products. Roads are inappropriate and they go Narsampet and Yellandu for education, domestic and agriculture products. Many adivasi people are in debt cycle, in hands of fertilizer shopkeepers and losing there farmlands to repay debt.

Gangaram as Petroleum station and few shop.

Politics

It is effected from radical left wing extremist [CPI-ML] party for decades. Rural base communism has strong hold . Cpi ml party main supported podu lands deforestation in 2009,2011 vast forest was disappeared. CPI-ML New Democracy party as dominant hold in these region before 2014, but after Telangana formation BRS party gained power in mandal has prominent figure Seethakka join congress party in 2017, the congress party gained much more power in these region. In 2018 and 2024 she had been MLA OF this region. ZPTC and MPTC are congress leaders. Seethakka being Koya adivasi, were majority voters are adivasies.

You can't rule out BRS, it as strong cader base in very village of this mandal.

Demographics

It is a Tribal inhabited mandal as schedule tribe agency mandal. Actually before it has been totally dense forest, no habitats were not even adivasi koya people, but later adivasi koya are immigrated to this dense forest from Mulugu, Gudur, Kondapur region, Gundala and Eturnagaram region. [2]

Villages

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Constituencies - 109, Mulugu LAC. mulugu.telangana.gov.in.
  2. Web site: Know your district Plan your district - Mahabubabad . trac.telangana.gov.in . Telangana State Remote Sensing Applications Centre.