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Garnekunta observes Bathukamma on Saturday, 10 October 2026, along with the rest of Telangana.
The principal temple recorded for Peddavoora mandal is Sree Someshwara lakshminarashimha Temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Garnekunta itself.
The state festival, kept in every district. Engili Pula Bathukamma on the first day and Saddula Bathukamma on the ninth, the largest, on the eve of Dussehra. Hyderabad's Tank Bund gathering is the biggest single one.
The regional form observed across Telangana. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
By population, Garnekunta ranks #10 of 20 villages in Peddavoora mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Garnekunta is a village of 1,287 people in 321 households (Census 2011) in Peddavoora mandal, Nalgonda district, Telangana, the 10th-largest of 20 villages in Peddavoora mandal. Literacy is 45%, 1 points below the mandal average of 46% and the sex ratio is 1,020 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 508266, served by Pedavoora post office; the LGD village code is 577383. The population is estimated at 1,429 in 2026, up 11% since the 2011 Census.
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Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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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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