It is administration under Parvathipuram revenue division and headquartered at Makkuva.

A portion of it also borders the Narayanapatna block of the Koraput district of Odisha on north west.

Makkuva mandal is one of the four mandals in Salur (Assembly constituency), which in turn is a part of Araku (Lok Sabha constituency), one of the 25 Lok Sabha constituencies[broken anchor] representing Andhra Pradesh.

[4] The present MLA is Sandhya Rani Gummidi, who won the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 2024[broken anchor] representing Telugu Desham Party.

[5] As of 2011[update] 2011 census of India, the mandal has 48 settlements, consisting of 48 villages.