Andhra saw the El Niño drought coming in February, farmers still lost ₹20,000 an acre: Jagan
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Madugula observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Andhra Pradesh.
Temples near Madugula
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Madugula mandal is Sri Venkateswara Swami Temple, Vaddadi. No temple of this dedication is on record within Madugula 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, Madugula ranks #1 of 53 villages in Madugula mandal — the largest.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Madugula is a village of 12,704 people in 3,658 households (Census 2011) in Madugula mandal, Anakapalli district, Andhra Pradesh, the largest of 53 villages in Madugula mandal. Literacy is 59%, 8 points above the mandal average of 51% and the sex ratio is 1,074 women per 1,000 men. It lies 29 km from the Anakapalli district centre, 29 km from Thummapala, the nearest town, 31 km from Bayyavaram railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 531027, served by Madugula post office; the LGD village code is 585878. The nearest hospital or health centre is St.Ann's Hospital, <1 km away. The village votes in Madugula assembly constituency, represented by MLA Bandaru Satyanarayana Murthy. The population is estimated at 14,978 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Madugula →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madugula · this village | 12,704 | 59% | — |
| Boddimamidi · Paderu | 114 | 38% | 0.7 km S |
| Thotagunnalu · Paderu | 60 | 33% | 2.6 km N |
| Madugula Koduru · Madugula | 3,716 | 50% | 2.8 km W |
| Sagaram · Madugula | 4,130 | 42% | 3.5 km SW |
| Kandrangipadu · Paderu | 129 | 28% | 3.9 km NW |
| M.K.Vallapuram · Madugula | 1,030 | 52% | 4.1 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.
2 Temples 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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