I. Knowledge, Experience in Andhra Pradesh
I. Knowledge, Experience in Andhra Pradesh
I. Knowledge, Experience in Andhra Pradesh
The state has a coastline of 974 km with jurisdiction over nearly 15,000 km2 territorial
waters, the second longest among all the states of India after Gujarat. Telangana borders it
in the north-west, Chhattisgarh in the north, Odisha in the north-east, Karnataka in the
west, Tamil Nadu in the south and the water body of Bay of Bengal in the east. A small
enclave of 30 km2 of Yanam, a district of Puducherry, lies south of Kakinada in the
Godavari delta to the east of the state.
Andhra Pradesh is composed of two regions: Coastal Andhra, located along the Bay of
Bengal, and Rayalaseema, in the inland southwestern part of the state. These two regions
comprise 13 districts, with 9 in Coastal Andhra and 4 in Rayalaseema.
Majority of the people in Andhra Pradesh are Hindus while Muslims constitute a sizeable
minority. According to the 2011 census, the major religious groups in the state are Hindus
(90.87%), Muslims (7.32%) and Christians (1.38%). Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains & the people who
declined to state their religion make up the remaining portion of population.
Andhra Pradesh economy is mainly based on agriculture and livestock. Four important
rivers of India, the Godavari, Krishna, Penna, and Thungabhadra flow through the state and
provide irrigation. 60% of population is engaged in agriculture and related activities. Rice is
the major food crop and staple food of the state. It is an exporter of many agricultural
products and also known as "Rice Bowl of India". The state has three Agricultural Economic
Zones in Chittoor district for mango pulp and vegetables, Krishna district for mangoes,
Guntur district for chilies.
The main source of irrigation that, four ways like, Major Irrigation (system feed canals),
Minor Irrigation (rain fed tanks), Lift Irrigation and ground water irrigation. The
government has taken vital role in developing the ayacut under irrigation by renovation
and reconstruction of the projects, rain fed tanks etc., and now polavaram project is under
construction. The pattiseema project completed in 8 months to merge the Godawari and
Krishna river water.
The government of Andhra Pradesh has been taken initiation for improve the irrigation
sources like watersheds, neeru-chettu, farm pounds etc.
I born and brought up in Prakasam District of costal Andhra. I have considerable work
experience in different districts of Andhra Pradesh. In combined state, I have enough
exposure in Telangana Region like Nizamabad and Medak districts. I am familiar on culture
and tradition of different region namely Rayalseema, Telanagan and Costal Andhra.
I am experienced for 17 years in different areas like project management tasks including
monitoring & evaluation, documentation, reporting, preparing training modules,
conducting ToTs in various fields, capacity building for institution development in micro
finance, livelihoods promotion, public health and participatory irrigation management.