Sugarcane turned bitter for thousands of farmers in North Andhra districts
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Aremanda observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Andhra Pradesh.
The principal temple recorded for Ponnur mandal is Sri venkateshwara swamy temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Aremanda 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, Aremanda ranks #12 of 18 villages in Ponnur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Aremanda is a village of 2,900 people in 843 households (Census 2011) in Ponnur mandal, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, the 12th-largest of 18 villages in Ponnur mandal. Literacy is 65%, 3 points above the mandal average of 62% and the sex ratio is 1,032 women per 1,000 men. It lies 22 km from the Guntur district centre, 11 km from Pathareddipalem, the nearest town, 1 km from Modukuru railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 522316, served by Patsalatadiparru post office; the LGD village code is 590360. The nearest hospital or health centre is Srilakshmi Nursing Home, 6 km away. The village votes in Ponnuru assembly constituency, represented by MLA Dhulipalla Narendra Kumar. The population is estimated at 3,158 in 2026, up 9% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Thallapalem →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aremanda · this village | 2,900 | 65% | — |
| Dandamudi · Ponnur | 3,337 | 59% | 1.8 km W |
| Modukuru · Tsunduru | 6,354 | 66% | 1.9 km NE |
| Mamillapalle · Ponnur | 4,197 | 60% | 2.4 km NW |
| Thottempudi · Tsunduru | 1,177 | 62% | 3.2 km NW |
| Kondamudi · Ponnur | 2,972 | 63% | 3.5 km S |
| Munipalle · Ponnur | 3,561 | 66% | 3.6 km W |
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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