Floods damage crops of 71,796 farmers and 2,405 km of roads in Andhra Pradesh; Godavari rises again
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Mangunta observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Andhra Pradesh.
Devi Navaratri with a different alankaram each day, most publicly at Vijayawada Kanaka Durga. Vijayadashami carries the Jammi leaf exchange and Aksharabhyasam for children.
The regional form observed across Andhra Pradesh. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
By population, Mangunta ranks #10 of 38 villages in Srirangarajapuram mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Mangunta is a village of 1,391 people in 350 households (Census 2011) in Srirangarajapuram mandal, Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh, the 10th-largest of 38 villages in Srirangarajapuram mandal. Literacy is 65%, 2 points above the mandal average of 62% and the sex ratio is 924 women per 1,000 men. It lies 35 km from the Chittoor district centre, 20 km from Karvetinagar, the nearest town, 20 km from Putalapattu railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 517167, served by Kothapalle post office; the LGD village code is 596633. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital,Thugundram, 15 km away. The village votes in Gangadhara Nellore assembly constituency, represented by MLA Vadingadu Munaswamy Thomas. The population is estimated at 1,515 in 2026, up 9% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Mangunta →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mangunta · this village | 1,391 | 65% | — |
| D.B.R.Bylu · Srirangarajapuram | 87 | 53% | 1 km SE |
| Oddupalle · Srirangarajapuram | 648 | 65% | 2.8 km SW |
| China Thayyur · Srirangarajapuram | 2,752 | 62% | 3.1 km SE |
| Thettuguntapalle · Vedurukuppam | 219 | 64% | 3.1 km NW |
| Thatimakulapalle · Srirangarajapuram | 926 | 58% | 3.3 km S |
| Garampalle · Vedurukuppam | 268 | 57% | 3.5 km W |
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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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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