Mahabubabad

Mahabubabad Mahabubabad
Major Gram Panchayath
Population  (2001)
• Total	100,000
Major Gram Panchayati

'Mahabubabad' (or 'Manukota'), is a biggest town located in Warangal District, Andhra Pradesh, India is well-known for its historical and traditional importance.

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Demographics: Its population is around 1,00,000. The male population is 50,889 (50.9%) and the female population is 48,931 (49.02%). The female to male ratio is 963:1000, which is above the national average 944:1000. The total literacy rate is 52.55% less than national average 64.8%. Male literacy rate is 62.73%, which is less than national average of 75.3%, and female literacy rate is 42.04%, which is also less than national average 53.7%. Once it was the biggest Revenue Division in Andhra Pradesh state. Later it was divided into two divisions. It derived its name from one of its past rulers, "Mahabub". The people here speak Telugu as the main language, and then Hindi, and few people can speak Urdu, and fewer people speak English, as their natural languages of communication. Majority of the villages and the hamlets here are habitats of tribes. The tribal community is Lambadi. So, majority of people here will also communicate in the special tribal language, Lambadi or Banjara. This language is one among the officially recognised dialects by the Govt. of India. This language has no script but sustaining on the oral spoken words only.

"Manukota" comes from Mranukota. 'Mranu' means "tree", and 'Kota' means "fort". In earlier days Manukota used to be covered with plenty of trees like a fort. Later it was spelled as Manukota. At one time a small fort was also located at Manukota.

The town's main streets are New Abad (Kotha Bazar) and Old Abad (Patha Bazar). The New Bazar is well planned and any construction here should meet the requiremnents stated by the Village Secretariat, on the other hand the Old Bazar look somewhat obsolete fashioned. The drain system of the city is not so appropriate, and follows old fashioned system. Owing to which the drains emanates bad smell along the streets. The civil authorities always fails in succeeding to solve the problem of pigs. The predominant activities are business and agriculture. In this town good carpenters are available. The most busiest places where people gather are Nehru Centre, Thorruur Busstand, Railway Station Area, Court Area. File:Mahabubabad.jpg

Mahabubabad is one of the better-developed place in Warangal District. It is considered as Plain Area and Peace Zone. Since though Warangal district is famous for Naxal activities, Mahabubabad is not prone to their activities.

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Weather: The climate of the city is semi-tropical type. Where the people from the city and its surroundings enjoy the this pleasant climate. The temperatures of the city will soar more than 45'C, in the hot summer and in the winter it will be min 18'C and max 27'C which will be a pleasant weather to enjoy. And, the city receive both the North-East and the South-West monsoon, from June-Sep. and from Oct-Nov. respectively. The city mainly rely on the monsoons and rainfall. For the live details of the weather go for this link [1].

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Educational Institutions:

They are many Educational Institutions serving education for denizens of this town right from K.G. to P.G. with full fledged infrastructure for faculty, own buildings and transport facilities. There are more than 30 schools located here. And around 12 junior colleges, 5 Degree Colleges, 2 P.G. colleges, 1 Engineering College, 1 College of Education. People from not only within the city but also from the nearby villages about a radius of more than 20 k.m. will commute daily inorder to pursue their education.

Among them the most prominent institutions category wise are,

Schools:

1. Fathima High School: English Medium school, from K.G. to X standard, run by Christian Missionaries,Secunderabad. A student from 1999 Xth batch secured state 3rd rank at the Board of Secondary Education Examination,1999. This school owns a sprawling campus with an intake of 1000. Run two buses with two trips for shuttling pupils from their homes to school and vice-versa daily. This is located on the outskirts of the town towards Thorruur.

2. Maharshi Vidhyalaya: English Medium school, from K.G. to X std., run by Maharshi Educational society. It has a sprawling campus on the other end of the town, towards Kesamudram. It is well maintained and the total strength of the institution is around 1000. It shuttles 8 buses for carrying pupils both from within the city and also covering a distance of 15 k.m. from the city. This is recently established institution.

3. Other English Medium schools are Gadhe Rukma Reddy Memorial( K.G. to X ), Panini Public school( K.G. to X), Holy Angels School(K.G. to 7th), Twinkle Star Public School( K.G. to X), Oxford School( K.G. to 7th).The prominent Telugu medium schools are Nethaji Memorial, Aravindha School, Saraswathi Vidhya Mandhir etc..,

4. They are ample number of Govt. run schools also. Among them Govt. School for both Boys & Girls, located at the heart of the city with a huge and sprawling campus. Another is Kankara Board School.

Junior Colleges :

1.Govt. Junior college for both Boys & Girls: This is a govt. run institution with a huge campus and good infrastruture. It is located right at the heart of the city. It has a large ground capable to accommodate more than 20,000 people will be used for many meetings more often. On the eve of both Independence day and Republic day all the institutions run by Govt. and Private education institutions will assemble here. The H'ble R.D.O. will hoist the flag and pupil will march for the ceremony.

2.Vikas Junior College: Established a decade ago, run by Excellent Edu. Society have a good faculty and ample student strength. It paved way for many students for pursuing their higher edu. from its well teaching and training.

3.Vignana Bharathi Junior College: Established two decades ago, has a two 3 storey buildings. Runs buses for shuttling its students.

Degree Colleges:

1.Govt. Degree College: Located in the out skirts of the city, has its alumni in reputed positions now. It has good faculty and sprawling campus.

2.Vikas Degree College: Established recently by Excellent Edu. Society.

3.Vignana Bharathi Degree College: Run by Vignana Bharathi Junior college admisnistration.

P.G. colleges: Vignana Bharathi Degree & P.G. College, Govt. P.G. college.

Mother Theressa College of Education, Ramappa college of Engineering etc.., are the other prominent Educational Institutions.

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Transport Facilities:

Mahabubabad is well connected with both Road and Rail routes to every other place of the state and the nation as well. It has a Bus Depot of APSRTC owns 80 buses and ply many services for catering the needs of the citizens. It falls on the main route of Warangal-Bhadrachalam. Nearly, 20,000 people ply from this city daily to and fro through these buses. In adition to that there are Kuravi bus stand, Thorruur bus stand, Pusalapalli busstop. And also many seven seater autorickshaws and Commander Jeeps ply connecting the nearby villages.

Rail route: It has one of the busiest railway station in the Kazipet-Vijayawada route. Nearly as many as 4000 passengers travel through this system daily. People here will use prevalently rail route than bus route. Mahabubabad Railway station has been graded as B1-category railway station by the South Central Railway. The famous trains halt at this station are Charminar Superfast Express, Padmavathi Superfast Exp, Sathavahana Superfast Exp, Intercity Superfast Exp, Krishna Exp, Golconda Exp, Dakshin Superfast Exp, etc..,It is 61k.m. from Warangal and 40k.m. from Khammam. The nearest Airport is Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad, 200k.m. And nearest Aerodrome at Warangal 60k.m.( This is under the progress of upgradation to the Airport, by the AAI and Govt. of A.P..

For details of the trains at Mahabubabad Railway Station, Click this link [2].

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Medical Facilities: The city has a good number of hospitals inorder to cater the medical needs of the denizens, where there are good facilities for performing some major operations also. Many specialist doctors are serving here for the purpose. The most prominent hospital is Area Hospital located at the heart of the city, which is considered as the next hospital to M.G.M. hospital Warangal, in the Dist. Many super speciality facilities are now available in the city. Many General and Dental hospitals are mushrooming by the day. The 108 service introduced by the state govt. recently enables 24X7 ambulance service in and around the city for the medical services for emergency. For this dedicated ambulance services are available with the Area Hospital.

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Banks: There are numerous banks established in the city. The prominent list of the banks are, Andhra Bank, Kakatiya Graameena Bank, State Bank of India, State Bank of Hyderabad, Bank of India etc.., And ATM facilities are also available.

The postoffice of Mahabubabad is a Head Post Office with the postal code 506101. It is regarded as the biggest postoffice next to the Warangal Dist. Post Office in the district. To reach the nook and corner of the city, there is another sub-post office located in new bazar.

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Festivals & Places of Worship: Every festival is celebrated here in spirit. The famous festivals are Vinayaka Chavithi, Dassera, Bathukamma, Deepawali, Sankranthi, Shivaratri, Sri RamNavami, Ugadi and Holi.During Sree Rama Navami, the Lord's solemnisation will takes place in huge possession, and which is regarded as next to Bhadrachalam. During Bathukamma, a special festival only celebrated by the Telangana people in Andhra Pradesh before the Vijaya Dasami, women adore and prepare special Bathukammas from flowers and fruits to merge them into the Nizam Cheruvu. On the Vijaya Dasami day people from all over the city gather at northeast corner of the city to have a glimpse at 'Pala Pittawhich is believed by the people that watching the bird on this day will bring good for the entire year. At the same occasion which is organised by the Arya Vysya Community the Goddess is adore in special dress. And special prayers are carried out which will be made successful by large gathering of the denizens. The Shammi leaves are disturbed which is believed in bringing good if we possess them. Sri Veerabhadra Swami Temple [3], located at Kuravi a distance of 10k.m. from here, which is established by the rulers of Kakatiya Dynasty, Lord Shiva temple, Venugopala Swamy Temple, Sri Venkateshwara Swami Temple, Sri Kanyaka Parameshwari Temple etc..,

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Administration:

Mahabubabad has one seat for state Assembly constituency, ie., the M.L.A. seat. The present M.L.A. is Mr.Vem Narender Reddy. It has a village secretariat headed by Sarpanch. The R.D.O. and M.R.O. will look after the revenue administration. The Mahabubabad though has Major Gram panchayath status, but it has to be upgraded to Muncipality long back.

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Judiciary: Mahabubabad has three district Sub-Ordinate Courts built in a Court Complex right in the heart of the city. 1) Sr. Civil Judge Court, 2) VI Adj(FTC)- VI additional Fast Track Court, 3) Jr. Civil judge court.

Recently, in October 2007 a model sub-jail has been constructed at a cost of Rs 2 crore. The DGP of Andhra Pradesh Mr. Basith inaugurated the sub-jail and police quarters constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 45 lakh by the AP Police Housing Corporation. The residential complex has 12 quarters for police constables. The sub-jail is located in the North-West corner of the city, with a prisoner strength of more than 150.

Mahabubabad has two police stations 1 town and 2 town, with a D.S.P. seat, one Fire station, Telephone Exchange, this Telephone Exchage ( Code: 08719 ) is the biggest and busiest one in the nearby proximity places and FCI godowns at Anantharam. It has Nizam Cheruvu located near the bus station. During the tenure of M.L.A. Ram Bhadraiah, it was said that the surroundings of this lake will be made to look like the Necklace Road in Hyderabad, one general Library, two cold storages.

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Entertainment: It has 5 theatres, which play daily shows.They are 1. Surya Theatre A/C D.T.S. 2. Lakshmi Theatre, A/C D.T.S. 3. Mukund Theatre A/C D.T.S. 4. Venkatrama Theatre A/C D.T.S. 5. Sreenivasa Theatre A/C. The 'Siti Cable' & 'Incable' are the two dish connection network providers who provides dish connections to the television sets in and around the city. These two providers are very competitive and frequently try to increase the monthly rent due to which they often enter into feud. Owing to which they are failing in the basic work in providing qualitative network. The Gandhi Park is the place where large meetings are held. The festival Sri Rama Navami is celebrated here with full adorance and glory.

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Business & Activities: The main occupation of the denizens is business. And the nearby village people is Agriculture. The people from the nearby villages come here to sell their produce at the grain market. The grain market is the biggest market. The main crop produce are Paddy, Cotton, Pulses, Jowar, Chilli, Tomato etc..,They are numerous Rice mills and Tiles industries located here.

Information directly Contributed By Mr.Chidambar Rao Bhukya M.Tech., Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur.