Sugarcane turned bitter for thousands of farmers in North Andhra districts
Reported by thehindu.com.
Bennayanuru observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Andhra Pradesh.
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, Bennayanuru ranks #60 of 60 villages in Santhipuram mandal — the smallest.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bennayanuru is a village of 14 people in 3 households (Census 2011) in Santhipuram mandal, Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh, the 60th-largest of 60 villages in Santhipuram mandal. Literacy is 64%, 9 points above the mandal average of 55% and the sex ratio is 556 women per 1,000 men. It lies 83 km from the Chittoor district centre, 10 km from Agasipalli, the nearest town, 7 km from Kuppam railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 517423, served by Rallabudugur post office; the LGD village code is 596849. The nearest hospital or health centre is P.E.S. Institute Of Medical Sciences and Research's Hospital, 1 km away. The village votes in Kuppam assembly constituency, represented by MLA Chandrababu Naidu Nara. The population is estimated at 15 in 2026, up 7% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Karlagatta →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bennayanuru · this village | 14 | 64% | — |
| Poduru · Santhipuram | 1,105 | 44% | 0.7 km NE |
| Preethichamanur · Santhipuram | 470 | 51% | 1.7 km N |
| Beggilipalle · Gudupalle | 1,324 | 55% | 1.8 km S |
| Madanapalle · Santhipuram | 516 | 47% | 2.3 km N |
| Kadapalle · Santhipuram | 1,174 | 50% | 2.5 km N |
| Gokarlapalle · Gudupalle | 360 | 53% | 2.6 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.
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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