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Tekupalle observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Friday, 25 September 2026, along with the rest of Andhra Pradesh.
Temples near Tekupalle
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Mopidevi mandal is Mopidevi Subrahmanyeswara swamy Temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Tekupalle 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, Tekupalle ranks #15 of 17 villages in Mopidevi mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Tekupalle is a village of 392 people in 118 households (Census 2011) in Mopidevi mandal, Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh, the 15th-largest of 17 villages in Mopidevi mandal. Literacy is 67%, 3 points above the mandal average of 64% and the sex ratio is 1,042 women per 1,000 men. It lies 27 km from the Krishna district centre, 6 km from Challapalle, the nearest town, 15 km from Repalle railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 521131, served by Lakshmipuram (Krishna) post office; the LGD village code is 589767. The nearest hospital or health centre is Padmavathi Hospital, 5 km away. The village votes in Avanigadda assembly constituency, represented by MLA Buddhaprasad Mandali. The population is estimated at 462 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Merakanapalli →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tekupalle · this village | 392 | 67% | — |
| Mellamarthi Lanka · Mopidevi | 573 | 65% | 0.7 km S |
| Merakanapalle · Mopidevi | 981 | 59% | 0.7 km W |
| Mellamarru · Mopidevi | 223 | 44% | 1.1 km E |
| Venkatapuram · Mopidevi | 1,347 | 64% | 1.9 km NW |
| North Chiruvolulanka · Mopidevi | 3,781 | 68% | 2.3 km S |
| Ayodhya · Mopidevi | 137 | 69% | 2.7 km SE |
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.
1 Church, 5 Temples mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
2 mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors, nearest first. Government school lists (UDISE) will replace this when loaded.
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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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