Sakhamur observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Andhra Pradesh.
Temples near Sakhamur
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 Sakhamur 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, Sakhamur ranks #15 of 21 villages in Thulluru mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Sakhamur is a village of 1,218 people in 349 households (Census 2011) in Thulluru mandal, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, the 15th-largest of 21 villages in Thulluru mandal. Literacy is 59%, 1 points below the mandal average of 60% and the sex ratio is 1,089 women per 1,000 men. It lies 23 km from the Guntur district centre, 8 km from Tadikonda, the nearest town, 11 km from Mangalagiri railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 522237, served by Tulluru post office; the LGD village code is 589967. 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 1,436 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Sakhamuru →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sakhamur · this village | 1,218 | 59% | — |
| Nelapadu · Thulluru | 1,028 | 60% | 2.3 km N |
| Ainavolu · Thulluru | 1,838 | 57% | 2.8 km E |
| Pedaparimi · Thulluru | 6,887 | 60% | 3.9 km SW |
| Nekkallu · Thulluru | 1,908 | 55% | 4 km W |
| Thullur · Thulluru | 7,794 | 63% | 4.3 km N |
| Ananthavaram · Thulluru | 3,391 | 58% | 5.2 km NW |
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.
2 Temples mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
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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