Arur observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Andhra Pradesh.
Temples near Arur
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Nindra mandal is Siva Sakthi Ashramam Sri Balavinayaka Bala Subramanya Swami, Gayathri Gudi. No temple of this dedication is on record within Arur 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, Arur ranks #5 of 15 villages in Nindra mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Arur is a village of 2,363 people in 618 households (Census 2011) in Nindra mandal, Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh, the 5th-largest of 15 villages in Nindra mandal. Literacy is 65%, 5 points above the mandal average of 60% and the sex ratio is 1,049 women per 1,000 men. It lies 75 km from the Chittoor district centre, 8 km from Athur, the nearest town, 10 km from Nagari railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 517591, served by Nindra post office; the LGD village code is 596356. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government E.N.T Hospital,Nindra, 7 km away. The village votes in Nagari assembly constituency, represented by MLA G. Bhanu Prakash. The population is estimated at 2,786 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Aruru →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arur · this village | 2,363 | 65% | — |
| Chavarambakam · Nindra | 1,006 | 61% | 2.5 km NE |
| Netteri · Kancheepuram | 873 | — | 2.4 km E |
| Netteri · K V Kuppam | 1,105 | 75% | 2.4 km E |
| Netteri · Nindra | 873 | 55% | 2.5 km E |
| Nambakkam · Uthukkottai | 1,433 | 64% | 2.6 km S |
| Kilambakkam · Vandalur | — | — | 2.9 km NE |
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.
1 Temple 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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