Mallaram: How a Telangana Village Built a Fully Digital E-Panchayat
In Mallaram, a village in Vemulawada mandal of Telangana's Rajanna Sircilla district, the gram panchayat website is not a noticeboard. It carries live weather updates, AI-generated crop advisories, a public ledger of every rupee received and spent, and streamed village meetings.
That platform was built end to end by Samhith Reddy Sangam, a B.Tech final-year student at SR University, working alongside the village sarpanch, Sangam Arpitha. His mother took office in December 2025; the dedicated website went live that February.
Why a village needed a digital rebuild
Rural governance in India runs on physical noticeboards, verbal announcements and long queues. A farmer who needs an update on fertiliser supply, a ration card or a procurement slot often has to travel to a block or mandal headquarters to find out.
The panchayat's approach was to collapse that distance into a single Telugu-language interface — the language the residents actually speak — and to make the numbers public rather than merely published.
What the platform actually does
- Real-time weather updates and AI-based crop advisories in Telugu
- IVR voice alerts for rain and thunderstorm warnings
- Online slot booking at procurement and IKP centres, cutting queue time
- A public ledger showing funds received under each scheme and how they were spent
- Live streaming of village meetings, including for residents living abroad
- Information on Central and state welfare schemes
The result
Within roughly three months, the panchayat had converted itself into a fully digital e-panchayat and took first prize at the national-level Digital Krishi-Samridhi Gaav competition. The initiative was framed as an extension of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy's Vision 2047 and the Digital India mission.
We worked hard to make governance transparent and accessible to every villager.
For a young developer, the project was a proof of a simple idea: rural public infrastructure does not fail because it is too small to serve. It fails because it is too difficult to reach. Closing that gap is a software problem as much as an administrative one.