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Peddapudi observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Andhra Pradesh.
Temples near Peddapudi
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Amarthalur mandal is Sri Ramalingeswara Swami Temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Peddapudi 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, Peddapudi ranks #6 of 13 villages in Amarthalur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Peddapudi is a village of 3,395 people in 935 households (Census 2011) in Amarthalur mandal, Bapatla district, Andhra Pradesh, the 6th-largest of 13 villages in Amarthalur mandal. Literacy is 65%, 2 points below the mandal average of 67% and the sex ratio is 985 women per 1,000 men. It lies 34 km from the Bapatla district centre, 11 km from Arumbaka, the nearest town, 8 km from Valliveru railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 522325, served by Amartaluru post office; the LGD village code is 590388. The nearest hospital or health centre is Pulla Rao RMP Hospital, 9 km away. The village votes in Vemuru assembly constituency, represented by MLA Ananda Babu Nakka. The population is estimated at 3,697 in 2026, up 9% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Pedapudi →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peddapudi · this village | 3,395 | 65% | — |
| Mulpur · Amarthalur | 5,387 | 66% | 2.4 km NE |
| Amruthalur · Amarthalur | 6,524 | 69% | 3 km S |
| Alapadu · Tsunduru | 2,029 | 57% | 3.2 km W |
| Koditadiparru · Amarthalur | 757 | 71% | 3.4 km SW |
| Manduru · Tsunduru | 2,632 | 56% | 3.6 km NW |
| Kuchipudi · Amarthalur | 6,788 | 64% | 4 km N |
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.
4 Temples mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
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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