Sugarcane turned bitter for thousands of farmers in North Andhra districts
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Pedakandlagunta observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Andhra Pradesh.
Temples near Pedakandlagunta
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Kondapi mandal is gangamma thallli temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Pedakandlagunta 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, Pedakandlagunta ranks #8 of 22 villages in Kondapi mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Pedakandlagunta is a village of 2,834 people in 632 households (Census 2011) in Kondapi mandal, Prakasam district, Andhra Pradesh, the 8th-largest of 22 villages in Kondapi mandal. Literacy is 42%, 13 points below the mandal average of 55% and the sex ratio is 979 women per 1,000 men. It lies 34 km from the Prakasam district centre, 17 km from Gangavaram, the nearest town, 26 km from Tanguturu railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 523270, served by Kondepi post office; the LGD village code is 591303. The nearest hospital or health centre is Durga Devi Hospital, 6 km away. The village votes in Kondapi assembly constituency, represented by MLA Dola Sree Bala Veeranjaneya Swamy. The population is estimated at 3,086 in 2026, up 9% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Pedakandlagunta →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pedakandlagunta · this village | 2,834 | 42% | — |
| C G Anantha Bhotla Vari Khandrika · Kondapi | 258 | 45% | 1.8 km N |
| Chinakandla Gunta · Kondapi | 1,993 | 47% | 4.4 km NE |
| Ilavera · Kondapi | 3,081 | 54% | 4.5 km SE |
| Kondapi Gadiyaram Vari Khandrika · Kondapi | 3,378 | 61% | 4.7 km E |
| Petluru · Kondapi | 3,990 | 43% | 5.1 km NW |
| Narasimhanayani Khandrika · Zarugumalli | 1,465 | 45% | 5.8 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.
4 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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