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Chigeli observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Andhra Pradesh.
Temples near Chigeli
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Aspari mandal is Srigiri Kshethram Binigeri. No temple of this dedication is on record within Chigeli 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, Chigeli ranks #12 of 20 villages in Aspari mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Chigeli is a village of 2,928 people in 588 households (Census 2011) in Aspari mandal, Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh, the 12th-largest of 20 villages in Aspari mandal. Literacy is 44%, 4 points above the mandal average of 40% and the sex ratio is 938 women per 1,000 men. It lies 27 km from the Kurnool district centre, 23 km from Pattikonda, the nearest town, 3 km from Nagarur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 518347, served by Aspari post office; the LGD village code is 594183. Mapped within or next to the village: primary school, high school. The village votes in Alur assembly constituency, represented by MLA B. Virupakshi. The population is estimated at 3,189 in 2026, up 9% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Chigili →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chigeli · this village | 2,928 | 44% | — |
| Benigeri · Aspari | 2,481 | 26% | 1.5 km NE |
| Nagarur · Aspari | 3,198 | 50% | 2.7 km NW |
| Chiramandoddi · Aspari | 1,487 | 42% | 4.8 km E |
| Sankarabanda · Aspari | 1,485 | 48% | 5.8 km SE |
| Musanahalli · Alur | 1,170 | 46% | 6.5 km W |
| Haligera · Aspari | 3,296 | 30% | 6.7 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.
1 Mosque, 6 Temples, 1 Church mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
3 mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors, nearest first. Government school lists (UDISE) will replace this when loaded.
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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