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Melapattu observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Andhra Pradesh.
Temples near Melapattu
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Nagari mandal is Siva Sakthi Ashramam Sri Balavinayaka Bala Subramanya Swami, Gayathri Gudi. No temple of this dedication is on record within Melapattu 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, Melapattu ranks #15 of 20 villages in Nagari mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Melapattu is a village of 833 people in 216 households (Census 2011) in Nagari mandal, Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh, the 15th-largest of 20 villages in Nagari mandal. Literacy is 54%, 4 points below the mandal average of 58% and the sex ratio is 1,042 women per 1,000 men. It lies 64 km from the Chittoor district centre, 18 km from Karvetinagar, the nearest town, 2 km from Nagari railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 517590, served by Nagari post office; the LGD village code is 596392. The nearest hospital or health centre is Azeez Clinic, 3 km away. The village votes in Nagari assembly constituency, represented by MLA G. Bhanu Prakash. The population is estimated at 982 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Melapattu →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melapattu · this village | 833 | 54% | — |
| Keelapattu · Nagari | — | — | 0 km N |
| Therani (R) · Nagari | 2,187 | 58% | 1.3 km NW |
| Mudipalle · Nagari | 2,951 | 63% | 1.4 km SW |
| Ekambarakuppam · Nagari | — | — | 1.6 km N |
| Netthamkandriga · Nagari | — | — | 2.1 km E |
| Satrawada · Nagari | — | — | 2.4 km NW |
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.
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