It is under the administration of Kadapa revenue division and the headquarters are located at Kamalapuram.

5,730 children are in the age group of 0–6 years, of which 2,998 are boys and 2,732 are girls —a ratio of 911 per 1000.

[2][5] As of 2011[update] census, the mandal has 12 villages and no towns.

[6][7] The settlements in the mandal are listed below: Kamalapuram mandal is one of the 6 mandals under Kamalapuram (Assembly constituency) and also a part of Kadapa (Lok Sabha constituency), one of the 25 Lok Sabha constituencies[broken anchor] representing Andhra Pradesh.

[8] The present MLA is Pochima Reddy Ravindranath Reddy, who won the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 2014 representing YSR Congress Party.