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Buddibanda observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Andhra Pradesh.
The principal temple recorded for Ravikamatham mandal is Jyothirmaya Divyadhamam Amarapuri. No temple of this dedication is on record within Buddibanda 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, Buddibanda ranks #31 of 33 villages in Ravikamatham mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Buddibanda is a village of 168 people in 51 households (Census 2011) in Ravikamatham mandal, Anakapalli district, Andhra Pradesh, the 31st-largest of 33 villages in Ravikamatham mandal. Literacy is 38%, 9 points below the mandal average of 47% and the sex ratio is 1,211 women per 1,000 men. It lies 19 km from the Anakapalli district centre, 12 km from Madugula, the nearest town, 25 km from Bayyavaram railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 531025, served by Ravikamatham post office; the LGD village code is 585842. The nearest hospital or health centre is St.Ann's Hospital, 12 km away. The village votes in Chodavaram assembly constituency, represented by MLA Surya Naga Sanyasi Raju Kalidindi. The population is estimated at 183 in 2026, up 9% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Kavagunta →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buddibanda · this village | 168 | 38% | — |
| Kavagunta · Pedavegi | 2,583 | 57% | 1.4 km N |
| Kavagunta · Ravikamatham | 823 | 42% | 1.4 km N |
| Matsyapuram · Ravikamatham | 276 | 54% | 1.6 km E |
| Krishnabhupala Puram Agraharam · Ravikamatham | 853 | 37% | 1.7 km SE |
| P.Sivaram Puram · Madugula | 254 | 39% | 2.3 km N |
| Komira · Ravikamatham | 716 | 47% | 2.3 km E |
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.
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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