Telangana to identify drought-hit mandals as rainfall deficit looms
Reported by The New Indian Express.
Jagdevpet observes Bathukamma on Saturday, 10 October 2026, along with the rest of Telangana.
The principal temple recorded for Velgatur mandal is Laxmi narasimhaswami temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Jagdevpet itself.
The state festival, kept in every district. Engili Pula Bathukamma on the first day and Saddula Bathukamma on the ninth, the largest, on the eve of Dussehra. Hyderabad's Tank Bund gathering is the biggest single one.
The regional form observed across Telangana. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
By population, Jagdevpet ranks #8 of 22 villages in Velgatur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Jagdevpet is a village of 2,612 people in 719 households (Census 2011) in Velgatur mandal, Jagitial district, Telangana, the 8th-largest of 22 villages in Velgatur mandal. Literacy is 47%, 3 points below the mandal average of 50% and the sex ratio is 1,031 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 505526, served by Endapalli post office; the LGD village code is 571712. The population is estimated at 3,080 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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