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Chennur observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Telangana.
The principal temple recorded for Palakurthy mandal is mahankalamma temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Chennur 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, Chennur ranks #7 of 21 villages in Palakurthy mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Chennur is a village of 3,083 people in 797 households (Census 2011) in Palakurthy mandal, Jangoan district, Telangana, the 7th-largest of 21 villages in Palakurthy mandal. Literacy is 51%, about the same as the mandal average of 52% and the sex ratio is 1,007 women per 1,000 men. It lies 125 km from the Jangoan district centre, 26 km from Manthani, the nearest town, 35 km from Ravindrakhani railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 506222, served by Kodakondla post office; the LGD village code is 578198. The nearest hospital or health centre is grandmouther, <1 km away. The population is estimated at 26,180 in 2026, up 749% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Chennur →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chennur · this village | 3,083 | 51% | — |
| Chennur · Gopalpeta | 1,587 | 43% | 0 km N |
| Gundaipet · Koutala | 2,422 | 40% | 2.1 km SW |
| Yellakkapet · Chennur | 1,466 | 48% | 2.2 km W |
| Kathersala · Chennur | 1,130 | 53% | 2.6 km S |
| Sarvaipet · Kotapally | 1,145 | 64% | 4.3 km SE |
| Yerraipet · Kotapally | 162 | 48% | 4.3 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.
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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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