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Yerragunta observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Andhra Pradesh.
Called Vinayaka Chavithi. Clay idols, the 21-leaf puja and undrallu are central. Community mandapams run for days, the Khairatabad idol in Hyderabad being the largest and drawing the biggest immersion procession.
The regional form observed across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
By population, Yerragunta ranks #10 of 11 villages in Rapthadu mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Yerragunta is a village of 1,113 people in 295 households (Census 2011) in Rapthadu mandal, Ananthapuramu district, Andhra Pradesh, the 10th-largest of 11 villages in Rapthadu mandal. Literacy is 47%, 6 points below the mandal average of 52% and the sex ratio is 1,002 women per 1,000 men. It lies 97 km from the Ananthapuramu district centre, 3 km from Parigi, the nearest town, 7 km from Malugur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 515722, served by Jayalakshmipuram (Ananthapur) post office; the LGD village code is 595109. The nearest hospital or health centre is Dr. Mubarak Clinic, 8 km away. The village votes in Raptadu assembly constituency, represented by MLA Paritala Sunithamma. The population is estimated at 1,312 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Yerragunta →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yerragunta · this village | 1,113 | 47% | — |
| Yerragunta · Parigi | 1,900 | 54% | 0 km N |
| Utakur · Parigi | 4,371 | 61% | 1.6 km E |
| Sangameswarapalle · Parigi | 376 | 41% | 1.9 km SE |
| Chinnapalli · Kolar Gold Field | 118 | 66% | 2.8 km W |
| Chinnapalli · Kolar Gold Field | 676 | 58% | 2.8 km W |
| Parigi · Parigi | 12,614 | 58% | 2.9 km SW |
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
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Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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