Srikakulam District, formerly known as Chicacole, is the extreme northeastern district of Andhra Pradesh, situated within the geographic co-ordinates of 18°-20’ and 19°-10’ N and 83°-50’ and 84°-50’ E. The district is skirted to a distance by Kandivalasagedda, Vamsadhara and Bahuda at certain stretches of their courses white a line of heights of the great Eastern Ghats run from North East. Vizianagaram District flanks in the south and west while Odisha bounds it on the north and Bay of Bengal on the East. It is the third least populous district of Andhra Pradesh (out of23), after Vizianagaram and Nizamabad.
Srikakulam District was carved out in 1950 by bifurcating it from Visakhapatnam District, it remained unaffected in its territorial jurisdiction for quite some time. But in November, 1969 the district lost 63 Villages from Saluru Taluk and 44 Villages from Bobbili Taluk on account of their transfer to the then newly constituted Gajapathinagaram Taluk of Visakhapatnam District. Again in May, 1979, the district had undergone major territorial changes on account of the formation of new District with headquarters at Vizianagaram which involved transfer of Salur, Bobbili, Parvathipuram andCheepurupalli Taluks to the new District.Srikakulam's culture is a blend of traditional festivals, food, music and theatres.
Srikakulam district occupies an area of 5,837 square kilometres (2,254 sq mi), comparatively equivalent to Australia's Melville Island.Srikakulam district can be divided into two main distinct natural divisions. A portion of Srikakulam district is plain terrain with intense agriculture and another portion of the district is rocky and hilly terrain covered with forests. Some extent of Mahendragiri hills also covers Srikakulam district. Most of the forest area of the plain terrain has been damaged by intense agriculture. Kotthuru, Hiramandalam, Pathapatnam, Kalingadal reservoir and some other areas are still covered with dense forests.
Srikakulam district has the longest coast line about 193 km (120 mi) in the state of Andhra Pradesh. It is bordered by Odisha on the north,Vizianagaram district on the west and south, Bay of Bengal on the east.
Rivers
River Nagavali
River Vamsadhara
Mahendratanaya
Champavati
Bahuda
Kumbhikota Gedda
Suvarnamukhi
Vegavati
Gomukhi
The Nagavali and Vamsadhara are the major rivers in Srikakulam district. These two river basins together constitute about 5% of the area. The Mahendratanaya and Bahuda rivers are two minor river basins in the district. Others are Benjigedda, Peddagedda, Kandivalasa gedda
Irrigation projects
Major irrigation projects: VamsadharaProject, Narayanapuram Anicut, Thotapalli Regulator and
Medium irrigation projects: Pydigam Project, Onigadda are providing a total ayacut of 69,373 acres (280.74 km2).
Irrigation water societie
(Telugu = Neeti Sanghalu): The societies are major and minor:
In the major category for Vamsadhara project 54 water societies are present and other 44 major societies to a total of 100 major
Minor societies are 402
Through the 38 Mandals in the Srikakulam district these societies are distributed under the channel name and for each society there are Pradesika Societies about 6-8 will be elected among the farmers. In the Srikakulam district about 75,000 farmer voters are participating in these Irrigation water society elections.
Revenue divisions,mandals and constituencies
Divisions
SRIKAKULAM
PALAKONDA
PALASA
TEKKALI
Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies
There are 3 Parliamentary Constituencies and 10 Assembly Constituencies in Srikakulam. district.
Srikakulam Parliamentary Constituency is the only full Parliamentary Constituency
Bobbili Parliamentary Constituency
Parvatipuram Parliamentary Constituency are partially included in this district.
Srikakulam Parliamentary Constituency includes the areas under Ichchapuram, Palasa, Tekkali, Narasannapeta, Amadalavalasa andSrikakulam assembly constituencies.
The 10 Assembly Constituencies are:
Amadalavalasa,
Rajam,
Tekkali,
Ichapuram,
Palasa,
Narasannapeta,
Palakonda,
Pathapatnam,
Srikakulam Assembly Constituency,
Etcherla
Revision of Assembly Constituencies
12 MLA constituencies are reduced to 10 and renamed as
Name of const'. mandals population SC ST
1.Srikakulam Assembly Constituency Srikakulam, Gara, Srikakulam Town. 262,149 19,438 1,009
2.Etcherla Ranastalam, Laveru, Etcherla, G.Sigadam. 281,908 32,005 1,412
3.Rajam Rajam, Santakaviti, R-Amadalavalasa, Vangara. 264,867 31,303 2,998
4.Amadalavalasa Amadalavalasa, Sarubujjili, Burja, Ponduru 231,602 22,509 2,586
5.Palakonda Palakonda, Seetampeta, Bhamini, Veeragattam. 230,814 32,207 61,140
6.Narasannapeta Narasannapeta, Polaki, Jalumuru, Saravakota. 249,001 14,906 6,944
7.Pathapatnam Pathapatnam, Meliaputti, Hiramandalam, Kotturu, L.N. Peta. 243,092 27,937 36,850
8.Tekkali Tekkali, Nandigam, Santabommali, Kotabommali. 258,815 14,906 6,944
9.Palasa Palasa, Mandasa, V.Kotturu.naupada
Revenue divisions and Mandals
There are three revenue divisions and 38 mandals in the Srikakulam district.The revenue divisions are Srikakulam, Tekkali and Palakonda.
Srikakulam DivisionTekkali DivisionPalakonda Division
1.Veeraghattam 2.Vangara 3.Regidi Amadalavalasa
4.Rajam 5.Ganguvari Sigadam 6.Laveru
7.Ranastalam 8.Etcherla 9.Ponduru
10.Santhakavati 11.Burja 12.Palakonda
13.Seethampeta 14.Bhamini 15.Kothuru(Srikakulam)
16.Hiramandalam 17.Sarubujjili 18.Amadalavalasa
19.Srikakulam 20.Kalingapatnam 21.Polaki
22.Narasannapeta 23.Jalumuru 24.Saravakota
25.Pathapatnam 26.Meliaputti 27.Tekkali
28.Kotabommali 29.Santhabommali 30.Nandigam
31.Vajrapu Kotturu 32.Palasa 33.Mandasa
34.Sompeta 35.Kanchili 36.Kaviti
37.Ichchapuram 38.Lakshminarasupeta.
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