Telangana nursing student, 18, found dead under suspicious circumstances at home
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Meka observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Friday, 25 September 2026, along with the rest of Telangana.
Temples near Meka
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Bichkunda mandal is Sri Laxmi Matha Temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Meka 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, Meka ranks #25 of 29 villages in Bichkunda mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Meka is a village of 455 people in 95 households (Census 2011) in Bichkunda mandal, Kamareddy district, Telangana, the 25th-largest of 29 villages in Bichkunda mandal. Literacy is 47%, 2 points below the mandal average of 48% and the sex ratio is 970 women per 1,000 men. It lies 46 km from the Kamareddy district centre, 7 km from Bichkunda, the nearest town, 26 km from Bodhan railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 503309, served by Madnoor post office; the LGD village code is 571128. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Ayurvedic Dispensary, Birkur (NRHM), 6 km away. The sarpanch is K VITTAL RAO. The population is estimated at 536 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Shetlur →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meka · this village | 455 | 47% | — |
| Shetloor · Bichkunda | 1,107 | 45% | 0.9 km NE |
| Gundekalloor · Bichkunda | 970 | 39% | 1.6 km W |
| Dhoti · Madnoor | 720 | 46% | 2.8 km NW |
| Khatgaon · Bichkunda | 1,588 | 52% | 2.9 km N |
| Sirsamundar · Bichkunda | 699 | 42% | 4 km SE |
| Mishankallali · Bichkunda | 1,397 | 46% | 4 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.
5 Temples, 2 Mosques mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
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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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