SALIENT FEATURES OF RANGA REDDY DISTRICT

 Ranga Reddy District was formed on 15^th August ,1978 by carving out  and deleting the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad and a few surrounding urban settlements of the erstwhile Hyderabad District which formed the urban core and renamed as Hyderabad District. This District is primarily the rural hinterland of Hyderabad City, feeding the powerful commercial center with various raw materials, agricultural produce and finished products.

 The district is located at the heart of Dakshinapatha or the Deccan plateau of the Indian subcontinent and lies between 16 19’ ad 18 20’ North latitude and 77 30’ East longitude bounded on the north by Medak district, on the east by Nalgonda District on the south by Mahaboobnagar District and on the west by Gulbarga District of  Karnataka State. It covers an area of 7,493 square K.Ms.

Ranga Reddy District is at the cross roads of India geographically, historically and has been the meeting group for the fusion of various civilizations, religions, races, cultures, languages and traditions with the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad as its cores.

 The district can be divided into three board basins.  A major part  (about 65 percent)  of the district is covered by the Musi River Basin. Use of water for irrigation purposes from Musi has however, been banned because of the rights created for Hyderabad city water supply in the shape of Osman Saagar and Himmayat Saagar for drinking water and irrigation rights to Musi projects in Nalgonda District. The next largest basin in the district is the Kagan Basin, a tributary of Bhima River and all new irrigation projects are proposed in this basin. There is good potential in this which can irrigate large large areas. This potential is not, however, fully exploited. The third basin in the District is the Manjira basin, which is part of the Godavari basin where the area under irrigation is very limited.  

This District including present Hyderabad Urban District was formerly known as atraf-e-Balda District and was a part of the Gulshanabad, Medak Division (Subah). in 1931-34 Baghat taluk from Atraf –e-Balda dist. Was made a separate Bhagat District under the Commissioner (Subedar) to from the Hyderabad District. later in 1978, it was split into Hyderabad Urban Dist. and Hyderabad Rural District or Ranga Reddy District.

 Ranga Reddy District comprises of plains, but is mostly cris-crossed with some rivers, seasonal rivulets and small streams. The Ananthagiri hill range straddles across the District from Mahaboobnagar District border in the south to Dharur Mandal in Vikarabad Revenue Division in the North. The Ananthagiri hill range consists of high grade laterite in geological terms

 From 25-5-1985 onwards, it is administered with 37 Mandals and 3 Revenue Divisions as follows:

 MANDAL – WISE INHABITED AND UN – INHABITED VILLAGES

                       AS PER 1991 CENSUS                                    EXISTING STATUS