Mothkur

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Mothkur (population: approx. 7500) is an agricultural and good marketing town in Nalgonda district, in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Mothkur comes under the assembly constituency of Ramannapet, and revenue division of Bhuvanagiri. It is a mandal headquarters and a former taluk. The present Ramannapet MLA Vuppunutala Purushottam Reddy and he is telangana planning and devalopment board chiarman . It is a regional trade centre for the three mandals of Mothkur, Atmakur and Gundala. It is located on the banks of Bikkeru a tributary of river Musi which itself is a tributary of river Krishna.

Though majority of the people are Hindus the town has substantial presence of Muslims, and a little Christian community. The town has the Ramalingeshwara temple belonging to medieval India (probably Kakatiyas), a mosque and a missionary run chapel.

It is basically an agricultural town with little food processing industry, mainly rice mills, vegetable oil mills. Wet paddy is the major crop, other crops include red chillies, cotton, green gram, castor and other vegetables and pulses.its adeveloping town. Marketing of natural goods is major source. This town consists of petrol pumps (HPCL and IOC). Paddy marketing is the major resource. It has many schools with one prominent missionary school (Sacred Heart High School). It is 80 km from hyderabad. historical, senior 300 years family is staying there. It has a government-run junior college and two private junior colleges, recently two degree colleges were also established.

Mothkur Temple Image

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Official Website for Mothkur

http://mothkur.sastry.in