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Prodduturu observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Andhra Pradesh.
Temples near Prodduturu
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Kankipadu mandal is Sri Anjiniya Bhavani Shanker Surya Narayana Temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Prodduturu itself.
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, Prodduturu ranks #9 of 18 villages in Kankipadu mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Prodduturu is a village of 2,441 people in 719 households (Census 2011) in Kankipadu mandal, Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh, the 9th-largest of 18 villages in Kankipadu mandal. Literacy is 71%, 2 points above the mandal average of 69% and the sex ratio is 1,012 women per 1,000 men. It lies 23 km from the Krishna district centre, 9 km from Vuyyuru, the nearest town, 10 km from Uppaluru railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 521151, served by Kankipadu post office; the LGD village code is 589496. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Kankipadu, 3 km away. The village votes in Penamaluru assembly constituency, represented by MLA Bode Prasad. The population is estimated at 2,524 in 2026, up 3% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Prodduturu →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prodduturu · this village | 2,441 | 71% | — |
| Boddapadu · Thotlavalluru | 1,466 | 72% | 1 km S |
| Chinapulipaka · Thotlavalluru | 1,003 | 63% | 1.2 km W |
| Davuluru · Kankipadu | 1,490 | 64% | 1.4 km E |
| Konathanapadu · Kankipadu | 1,681 | 90% | 1.9 km NE |
| Godavarru · Kankipadu | 3,457 | 70% | 2.3 km NW |
| Chalivendrapalem · Kankipadu | 1,043 | 65% | 2.7 km E |
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.
2 Temples mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
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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