Telangana Woman Elopes With Brother-In-Law, Villagers Throw Chilli Powder At Her
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Devakkapet observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Telangana.
The principal temple recorded for Bheemgal mandal is Limbadri Gutta(Nimbachalam),Bheemgal. No temple of this dedication is on record within Devakkapet itself.
Called Vinayaka Chavithi. Clay idols, the 21-leaf puja and undrallu are central. Community mandapams run for days, the Khairatabad idol in Hyderabad being the largest and drawing the biggest immersion procession.
The regional form observed across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
By population, Devakkapet ranks #15 of 24 villages in Bheemgal mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Devakkapet is a village of 1,369 people in 310 households (Census 2011) in Bheemgal mandal, Nizamabad district, Telangana, the 15th-largest of 24 villages in Bheemgal mandal. Literacy is 41%, 14 points below the mandal average of 55% and the sex ratio is 1,043 women per 1,000 men. It lies 36 km from the Nizamabad district centre, 14 km from Rudrangi, the nearest town, 23 km from Mortad railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 503307, served by Bhimgal post office; the LGD village code is 570866. The nearest hospital or health centre is Sree Rama Clinic, 6 km away. The population is estimated at 1,614 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Devakkapet →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Devakkapet · this village | 1,369 | 41% | — |
| Thallapalle · Bheemgal | 530 | 32% | 1.1 km W |
| Gangarai · Bheemgal | 220 | 46% | 2.2 km W |
| Karepalle · Bheemgal | 1,080 | 47% | 5.8 km NW |
| Inayat Nagar · Kammarpally | 835 | 35% | 7.9 km N |
| Narsapur · Kammarpally | 1,327 | 49% | 9.1 km N |
| Nagapur · Kammarpally | 1,143 | 54% | 9.1 km N |
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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