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Medapi observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Andhra Pradesh.
The principal temple recorded for Tripuranthakam mandal is Sri Anjaneya swamy and Nagendra Swamy temple, tripuranthakam. No temple of this dedication is on record within Medapi 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, Medapi ranks #5 of 18 villages in Tripuranthakam mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Medapi is a village of 6,589 people in 1,627 households (Census 2011) in Tripuranthakam mandal, Prakasam district, Andhra Pradesh, the 5th-largest of 18 villages in Tripuranthakam mandal. Literacy is 36%, 6 points below the mandal average of 42% and the sex ratio is 969 women per 1,000 men. It lies 52 km from the Prakasam district centre, 6 km from Tripuranthakam, the nearest town, 16 km from Kurichedu railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 523326, served by Tripurantakam post office; the LGD village code is 590571. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government hospital,Annasamudram, 2 km away. The village votes in Yerragondapalem assembly constituency, represented by MLA Chandra Sekhar Tatiparthi. The population is estimated at 7,175 in 2026, up 9% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: G.Ummadivaram →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medapi · this village | 6,589 | 36% | — |
| Annasamudram · Tripuranthakam | 3,799 | 39% | 1.2 km NE |
| Ganapavaram · Tripuranthakam | 7,022 | 42% | 2.6 km W |
| Kankanala Palle · Tripuranthakam | 7,279 | 40% | 5 km S |
| Kankanala Palle · Thipparthy | 605 | 52% | 5 km S |
| Tripuranthakam · Tripuranthakam | 10,392 | 55% | 6 km SW |
| Miriam Palle · Tripuranthakam | 1,271 | 42% | 6.7 km S |
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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