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Ramagundam is a municipal corporation in the Karimnagar district of Northern region in the state of Telangana in India.[1]

Ramagundam is known as Town of Energy. It is located on the banks of river Godavari, about 250 kilometres (155 mi) north east of state capital, Hyderabad. It has a population of 252,693

The town of Ramagundam gets its name from a combination of two words: (Rama + Gundam). A famous temple of the Hindu God Lord Rama is situated in the old part of the town and 'Gundam' means Water Springs. Ramagundam is Adjacent to Godavarikhani.

Nearby Areas around Godavarikhani like 8 Incline Colony, Jyothinagar, Medepally, Ganganagar, Centenary Colony, Jangaon, Pothana Colony, etc., are Collected called Ramagundam.
Somarapu Satyanarayana, won as MLA in2014 elections from Ramagundam.

Ramagundam is situated in the Godavari Valley coalfields and has one of India's largest thermal power stations, run by NTPC. Ramagundam is considered the Manchester of India in light of the companies surrounding the area. mostly industries are connected with Godavarikhani-Jyothinagar-Ramagundam Some of them are FCIL: Fertilizer Corporation of India, Kesoram Cement, Basanth Nagar, NTPC (RSTPS - Ramagundam Super Thermal Power Station) sourcing 2600 MW of power 24/7 and the APSEB (Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Board) unit at Ramagundam. Another 1600MW (2 × 800MW) is proposed as RDM-II as per expansion plan by NTPC Limited. NTPC's 1st SPV or Solar photovoltaic unit of capacity 25MW (Phase-I 1 × 10MW, Phase-II 1 × 15MW) has been proposed at Ramagundam. This would help in earning carbon credits against use of solar power as renewable energy source.

There are many factories around this place that take the raw material from the coalmines and prepare carbon derivatives.

NTPC has a policy of hiring full-time employees according to the production capacity. For the records, its present employees should not be more than 2600. Most of the production work has been done by the contract workers by which the local benefitting.

Local transportation include auto rickshaws in the city.

Ramagundam is a part of Secunderabad Division of South Central Railway.It has Grand Trunk Route,which connects to all the four metropolitan cities of India. Ramagundam railway station is biggest station in Karimnagar district, and last junction in Telangana. The government isn't interested in this station about developing route from Ramagundam to Manuguru. Most of the trains passing through this route, stop at Ramagundam. Some of the trains are AP Express, Dakshin Express, AP Samparkranthi Express, Sec-Patna exp, Grand Trunk Express, Kerala Express, Sanghamitra express, Bhagmati exp, Okha puri express etc. And Ramagundam Station got best railway station award, 2 times from south central railways. The trains touches this railway line to go to New Delhi from Hyderabad and from Chennai.