Ananthavaram observes Vinayaka Chavithi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Andhra Pradesh.
Temples near Ananthavaram
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Thulluru mandal is Shri Venkateshwara Swamy Temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Ananthavaram 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.
The idol is kept for one and a half, three, five, seven days or until Anant Chaturdashi — it is a family custom rather than a rule, and community mandapams usually keep it longest.
| Kept for | Immersion | |
|---|---|---|
| One and a half days | Tue, 15 Septembertoday | |
| Three days | Thu, 17 September | |
| Five days | Sat, 19 September | |
| Seven days | Mon, 21 September | |
| Anant Chaturdashi | Wed, 23 September | The day most community mandapams immerse |
Many gram panchayats and municipalities set aside a pond or a marked stretch of tank for immersion. Ask at the panchayat office — it changes year to year, and a drinking-water tank or a farm pond is not an alternative.
A clay idol breaks down in water within hours. Plaster of Paris does not, and the paints carry heavy metals, so idols accumulate in tanks and rivers after immersion. Pollution control boards in most states now ask for clay for exactly this reason.
Immersion points get crowded and the bank is slippery after the monsoon. Children go into the water at these gatherings every year. Keep one person watching the water rather than the procession.
Thermocol, plastic sheeting, cloth and metal ornaments do not belong in the tank even when the idol itself is clay. Most organised immersion points now have a collection bin at the bank for them.
By population, Ananthavaram ranks #6 of 21 villages in Thulluru mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Ananthavaram is a village of 3,391 people in 961 households (Census 2011) in Thulluru mandal, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, the 6th-largest of 21 villages in Thulluru mandal. Literacy is 58%, 2 points below the mandal average of 60% and the sex ratio is 966 women per 1,000 men. It lies 26 km from the Guntur district centre, 11 km from Tadikonda, the nearest town, 15 km from Rayanapadu railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 522236, served by Tadikonda post office; the LGD village code is 589956. The nearest hospital or health centre is Suma Piles Clinic, 4 km away. The village votes in Tadikonda assembly constituency, represented by MLA Tenali Sravan Kumar. The population is estimated at 3,998 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Ananthavaram →
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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