# Jayashankar Bhupalpally district

Jayashankar Bhupalpally district is a district in the Indian state of Telangana. The district headquarters are located at Bhupalpally. It was a part of the erstwhile Warangal district and Karimnagar district prior to the re-organisation of districts in the state. The district share boundaries with Karimnagar, Mancherial, Peddapalli, Hanamkonda, Warangal, and Mulugu districts and with the state boundary of Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh. The world's largest multi-stage lift irrigation project Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project is in Jayashankar Bhupalpally District and Jayashankar Bhupalpally District falls Under naxal affected district as per Red corridor.

## Geography

The district is spread over an area of 6,175 square kilometres (2,384 sq mi). Jayashankar district is bounded on north by Mancherial district and Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, on the northeast by Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, on the southeast by Mulugu district, on the south by Warangal district, on west by Hanamkonda and Peddapalli districts.

## Demographics

Religion in Jayashankar Bhupalpally district (2011) :
| Hinduism | Hinduism | 96.23% | 96.23% |
| Islam | Islam | 2.95% | 2.95% |
| Christianity | Christianity | 0.64% | 0.64% |
| Other or not stated | Other or not stated | 0.18% | 0.18% |
As of 2011 Census of India, the district has a population of 416,763. 207,998 are males and 208,765 females, a sex ratio of 1004 females per 1000 males. 42,387 (10.17%) lived in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes made up 92,017 (22.08%) and 37,192 (8.92%) of the population respectively.
Languages of Jayashankar Bhupalpally district (2011)
At the time of the 2011 census, 95.34% of the population spoke Telugu, 1.76% Lambadi and 1.59% Urdu as their first language.

## Administrative divisions

The district will have One revenue division of Bhupalpally and is sub-divided into 11 mandals.
Bhavesh Mishra, IAS is the present collector of the district.
The below table categorizes mandals into their respective revenue divisions in the district:

## Mandals

The below table categorizes mandals into their respective revenue divisions in the district:
| Sl. No | Name of the District | Mandals in the District including New Mandals | Name of the Revenue Division | Name of the Erstwhile District | Name of the Erstwhile Revenue Division |
| 1 | Jayashankar District HQ at Bhupalpalli) * | Bhupalpally | Bhupalpally | Warangal | Mulugu |
| 2 | Jayashankar District HQ at Bhupalpalli) * | Ghanpur (Mulugu) | Bhupalpally | Warangal | Mulugu |
| 3 | Jayashankar District HQ at Bhupalpalli) * | Regonda | Bhupalpally | Warangal | Mulugu |
| 4 | Jayashankar District HQ at Bhupalpalli) * | Mogullapally | Bhupalpally | Warangal | Mulugu |
| 5 | Jayashankar District HQ at Bhupalpalli) * | Chityal | Bhupalpally | Warangal | Mulugu |
| 6 | Jayashankar District HQ at Bhupalpalli) * | Tekumatla (New) | Bhupalpally | Warangal | Mulugu |
| 7 | Jayashankar District HQ at Bhupalpalli) * | Malhalrao | Kataram | Karimnagar | Manthani |
| 8 | Jayashankar District HQ at Bhupalpalli) * | Kataram | Kataram | Karimnagar | Manthani |
| 9 | Jayashankar District HQ at Bhupalpalli) * | Mahadevpur | Kataram | Karimnagar | Manthani |
| 10 | Jayashankar District HQ at Bhupalpalli) * | Palimela (New) | Kataram | Karimnagar | Manthani |
| 11 | Jayashankar District HQ at Bhupalpalli) * | Mahamutharam | Kataram | Karimnagar | Manthani |
| 12 | | Kotthapellygori (New) | Bhupalpally | Warangal | Mulugu |

## Assembly Constituencies

There are 2 assembly constituencies in Bhupalapally district. They are Bhupalapalle, Manthani
Currently Gandra Sathya Narayana Rao is MLA of Bhupalpally and D. Sridhar Babu is The MLA of Manthani.