Mothkur
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Mothkur (population: approx. 40,000) is an agricultural town in Nalgonda district, in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.
Mothkur Sarpanch : Venkateswarlu ( Teja Clinic) from Congress
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 hails from Mothkur mandal. 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, boilers. Wet paddy is the major crop, other crops include red chillies, cotton, green gram, castor and other vegetables and pulses. It has many schools with one prominent missionary school (Sacred Heart High School) which greets the entrants to the town coming by Bhuvanagiri road. It has a government-run junior college and two private junior colleges, recently a degree college was also established. It is turning out into a regional education hub with schools and colleges mushrooming.
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