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Thutigunta 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, Thutigunta ranks #8 of 22 villages in Polavaram mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Thutigunta is a village of 1,056 people in 338 households (Census 2011) in Polavaram mandal, Eluru district, Andhra Pradesh, the 8th-largest of 22 villages in Polavaram mandal. Literacy is 49%, 13 points below the mandal average of 62% and the sex ratio is 1,142 women per 1,000 men. It lies 72 km from the Eluru district centre, 16 km from Polavaram, the nearest town, 44 km from Kovvur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 534455, served by Gowrisankara Puram post office; the LGD village code is 588096. The nearest hospital or health centre is Dr. JLBM General Hospital, 16 km away. The village votes in Rampachodovaram assembly constituency, represented by MLA Miriyala Sirisha Devi. The population is estimated at 1,150 in 2026, up 9% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Thutigunta →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thutigunta · this village | 1,056 | 49% | — |
| Manturu · Devipatnam | 1,290 | 55% | 2.4 km SE |
| Katchuluru · Devipatnam | 282 | 45% | 2.4 km NE |
| Cheeduru · Polavaram | 230 | 40% | 4.2 km NW |
| Kondrukota · Polavaram | 2,736 | 58% | 4.6 km S |
| Yerrametla · Devipatnam | 198 | 46% | 6.4 km E |
| Thummuru · Devipatnam | 301 | 45% | 7.7 km NE |
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.
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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