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History (History of Bhoodan Pochampally)
18th April 1951 was an historic day of the very genesis of the Bhoodan movement. Vinoba Bhave visited Pochampally mandal in Nalgonda district. Vinayak Narahari Bhave was known as Vinoba Bhave was an advocate for nonviolence and human rights and is well known for his Bhoodan Movement to help the landless farmers. The organizers had arranged Vinoba's stay at Pochampally, a small village with about 700 families, of whom two-thirds were landless. Pochampally villagers gave Vinoba a warm welcome. Seeing the plight of landless villagers, Vinoba inquired whether anything is possible to do if it is not possible to get land from the government. Vedre Ramchandra Reddy, the local landlord got up and said that he is ready to donate 250 acres.This incident neither planned nor imagined was the very genesis of the Bhoodan movement and it made Vinoba realize that there is some potentiality of solving the land problem of India. This movement later on developed into a village gift or Gramdan movement. As the huge, massive and magnificent movement called Bhoodan Movement was born at this village Pochampally, the village was renamed to Bhoodan Pochampally.