Bhoodan Pochampally

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| name = Bhoodan Pochampally
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| settlement_type = [[Census Town]]
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Telangana, India
| coordinates = {{coord|17.3461|78.8122|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = [[India]]
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and union territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Telangana]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts in India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district|Bhuvanagiri]]
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| area_footnotes = <ref name=census>{{cite web|title=District Census Handbook - Nalgonda|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/2808_PART_B_DCHB_NALGONDA.pdf|website=Census of India|accessdate=11 February 2016|page=13,248}}</ref>
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| area_total_km2 = 28.42
| elevation_footnotes =
| elevation_m = 1184
| population_total = 12972
| population_as_of = 2011
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| demographics_type1 = Languages
| demographics1_title1 = Official
| demographics1_info1 = [[Telugu language|Telugu]]
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|Postal PIN Code]]
| postal_code = 508284
| area_code = +91 8685
| registration_plate = TS 30
| website = {{URL|telangana.gov.in}}
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'''Bhoodan Pochampally''' is a [[census town]] in [[Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district]] of the [[Indian state]] of [[Telangana]]. It is located in Pochampalle [[mandal]] of [[Bhongir]] division.<ref name="census" />

==Geography==
Bhoodan Pochampally is located at {{Coord|17|20|46|N|78|48|44|E|type:city}} (17.3461, 78.8122).<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdate=2011-04-23|date=2011-02-12|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref>

== History ==
{{Main|Bhoodan movement}}{{Tone|date=November 2020}}[[File:Bhoodhan Pochampally in Nalgonda.png|thumb|Pochampally highlighted on Nalgonda Map]]

On 18 April 1951, the historic day of the very genesis of the [[Bhoodan movement]], [[Vinoba Bhave]] entered the [[Pochampally]] Mandal in Nalgonda district, the centre of Communist activity. The organisers had arranged [[Vinoba Bhave|Vinoba]]'s stay at [[Pochampally]], a large village with about 700 families, of whom two-third were landless. [[Pochampally]] villagers gave [[Vinoba Bhave|Vinoba]] a warm welcome. By early afternoon villagers began to gather around Vinoba at Vinoba's cottage. The villagers asked for eighty acres of land, forty wet, forty dry for forty families that would be enough. Then Vinoba asked," If it is not possible to get land from the government, is there not something villagers themselves could do?" To everyone's surprise, Pochampally Zamindhar V. Ramachandra Reddy got up and said in a rather excited voice: "I will give you 1000 acres for these people". his promise to offer 1000 acres of land to the villagers. This incident which is neither planned nor imagined was the very genesis of the Bhoodan movement and it made [[Vinoba Bhave|Vinoba]] think that there in lay the potentiality of solving the land problem of India. This movement later on developed into a village gift or Gramdan movement. As the huge, massive and magnificent movement called [[Bhoodan Movement]] was born in this [[Pochampally]], the village was renamed to Bhoodan Pochampally.

In 1999, the weaving industry of Bhoodan Pochampally came to limelight when a young weaver Chithakindhi Mallesham developed a machine for automating the time-consuming, laborious and painful ''Asu'' process of winding of yarn before the dyeing and weaving is done. The innovation was recognized by [[National Innovation Foundation]] – India.<ref>[http://5award.nif.org.in/doc_file/Mallesham%20nov%2012.doc Recognition of Asu Machine by National Innovation Foundation] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120603151626/http://5award.nif.org.in/doc_file/Mallesham%20nov%2012.doc |date=3 June 2012 }}</ref>

[[File:Bhoodhan Pochampally Sign Board.jpg|thumb|Way to Pochampally
|alt=polavaram]]

==See also==
* [[Pochampally Saree]]
* [[Bhoodan Movement]]

==References==
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{{Yadadri district}}

[[Category:Mandal headquarters in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district]]

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