It has 48 villages over an area of 632 square miles.It was a major Railway junction of the Guntakal-Bangalore branch of the Southern Mahratta Railway with the Villupuram-Dharmavaram branch of the South Indian Railway.
It has 48 villages over an area of 632 square miles. The population in 1901 was 70,943, compared with 65,629 in 1891.It was a major Railway junction of the Guntakal-Bangalore branch of the Southern Mahratta Railway with the Villupuram-Dharmavaram branch of the South Indian Railway.