Telangana BJP chief Ramchander Rao detained while heading to Jurala project
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Potharam observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Friday, 25 September 2026, along with the rest of Telangana.
The principal temple recorded for Dubbak mandal is Ventakeshwara swamy temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Potharam 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, Potharam ranks #18 of 26 villages in Dubbak mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Potharam is a village of 1,185 people in 257 households (Census 2011) in Dubbak mandal, Siddipet district, Telangana, the 18th-largest of 26 villages in Dubbak mandal. Literacy is 50%, 5 points below the mandal average of 55% and the sex ratio is 924 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 502108, served by Dubbak post office; the LGD village code is 572952. The population is estimated at 1,397 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Potharam →
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.
Centred on Dubbak mandal
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