Cumbum, Andhra Pradesh

Cumbum
కంబం
Kambham
town

Cumbum Lake
Cumbum

Location in Andhra Pradesh, India

Coordinates: 15°34′00″N 79°07′00″E / 15.5667°N 79.1167°ECoordinates: 15°34′00″N 79°07′00″E / 15.5667°N 79.1167°E
Country India
State Andhra Pradesh
District Prakasam
Talukas Cumbum
Population (2011)
 • Total 21,562 including other part of the town Kandulapuram(Census 2,011)
Languages
 • Official Telugu
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN 523333
Telephone code 08406

Cumbum is a town and a Mandal in Prakasam district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India.[1]

History

Colonial period

For the administration of the vast area ceded by the Nizam under the Treaty of 1800, the Government of Madras, appointed Major Munro as the Principal Collector, with four sub-collectors under his immediate authority. The area was then divided into 37 taluks. Munro apportioned the taluks among his sub-collectors, retaining some under his immediate charge. He established his headquarters at Anantapur while those of the other sub-collectors were set up at Harpanahalli, Adoni, Cuddapah and Cumbum respectively.

In 1807, Government directed the area to be formed into three divisions or collectorates, corresponding with the jurisdiction of the respective Zilla Courts established by that time. This led to the constitution of three collectorates or divisions with headquarters at Bellary, Cuddapah and Kodikohda. The Kodikonda division was abolished and its area was absorbed in the other two, what was subsequently known as the ceded districts of Bellary and Cuddapah which comprised the taluks of Badvel, Jammalamadugu, Duvvuru, Chitvel, Siddhavattam, Chennuru, Chintakunta, Kamalapuram, Pulivendla, Rayachoti, Cumbum, Giddaluru, Dupadu, Koilkuntla, Nossam, Gurramkonda and Punganuru with Sid-bout (Siddhavattara) as headquarters. Sometime later, the taluks of Nossam, Giddaluru and Chintakunta were merged with those of Koilkuntla, Cumbum and Jammalamadugu taluks. Reference URL No.6

Cumbum was a Taluk with a Tahsildar and a small regiment during the 1850s in Madras Presidency. Due to the incidence of malaria, the British regiment was closed down and moved. But, now the town is pleasant and best fit with many amenities.

Post-Independence period

Cumbum was in Kurnool district prior to formation of Prakasam district. Later, in 1971 the areas of Markapur division was brought into the limits of newly formed distrct which was named as Prakasam District. Thus, Cumbum is now in Prakasam district.

Cumbum town is now rapidly developed having educational institutions and commercial banks. Cumbum Tank is one of the best tourist place considering wide and ancient tank bund with beautiful scenario like green crops, beautiful long railway track and hills inside the tank which can be viewed standing from Tank Bund. If the tank is full of water, boat shire will be good entertinement to attract visitors. Renovation of Guest House on Tank Bund has to be taken up by government. Approach road on the foot of the hill need to be formed with Tar. Cumbum Tank is versatile to recognize as a historical and tourist place in the district since it was built nearly 400 years ago.

Geography

Cumbum is located at 15°34′00″N 79°07′00″E / 15.5667°N 79.1167°E.[2] It has an average elevation of 184 metres (606 & nbsp;ft). This township is under Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh.

Demography

Cumbum mandal showed a very good growth indicators in the Census 2011. According to census of India, Cumbum mandal has been recognized as the second highest in literacy in Praksam district literacy having 73.55% literates after Ongole Mandal. Also third highest sex ratio in Prakasam district having 1031 female population per 1000 males.

Transportation

Road

State high ways Vinukonda-Nandyal and Kadapa roads, the Vijayawada-Guntakal pass through the town. Direct buses are available to Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai where booking can be done in APSRTC reservation website. Union government accepted to convert this state high way into 4 lane National High way till Renigunta via Bestavarapet, Kaningiri, Rapuru and Venkatagiri.

Rail

All railway lines in Guntur division of South Central Railway passes through the town connects Bangalore, Hyderabad, Hubli, Vasco-Da-Gama, Guntur, Vijayawada, Machilipatnam, Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram, Srikakulam, Palasa, Bhubaneswar and Howrah/Kolkata. Most popular trains commuting via Cumbum railway station are Prashanthi Express, Amaravathi Express, Howrah Express, Kondaveedu Express, Guntur - Secunderabad fast passenger. The Railway Ministry had accepted for Cumbum - Proddatur railway lane in 2010 and 2013 Railway budgets and a survey iss underway.

Tourism

Cumbum tank bund, 3 km away from Cumbum town is a picnic spot for weekends. Visitors used to have group lunches on tank-bund. People enjoy beautiful scenery, green fields, hills, railway track, sunrise and sunset visible from tank-bund. Waves of water, inside hills are special attraction of Cumbum tank and can spend entire day on this tank. Cumbum lake is accessible both by the rail from Cumbum railway station and by road from Nandyal, Giddalur, Ongole and Kadapa. It is one of the most picturesque valleys in the Guntur-Nandyal-Guntakal section of South Central Railway.

Cumbum Tank/Lake

Cumbum Lake, also known as Gundalakamma Lake, built on Gundalakamma rivulet upon Nallamala hills, is one of the oldest man made lakes of Asia. It is the second largest irrigated lake in Asia. It is said that the lake was built by sage Jamadagni at the opening between two hills of Nallamala range.

Kakarla

This is the place where the ancestors of Tyagaraja resided.

Notable people

There were famous historical personalities from Cumbum and its surrounding villages

Politics

Assembly constituency

The town is an erstwhile assembly constituency till 2009 in Andhra Pradesh. There were 145,224 registered voters in Cumbum constituency in 1999 elections.

List of Elected Members

Following are the elected representatives[4]

Starting 2009, Cumbum ceased as an assembly constituency because of the re-alignment undertaken by the Election Commission.

References

  1. ↑ "List of Sub-Districts". Census of India. Retrieved 2007-04-27.
  2. ↑ Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Cumbum
  3. ↑
  4. ↑ Election Commission of India.APAssembly restults.1978-2004