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Kolanka observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Andhra Pradesh.
Temples near Kolanka
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Pithapuram mandal is durga temple,lord venkateswara temple,krishna temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Kolanka 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, Kolanka ranks #5 of 25 villages in Pithapuram mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kolanka is a village of 4,657 people in 1,318 households (Census 2011) in Pithapuram mandal, Kakinada district, Andhra Pradesh, the 5th-largest of 25 villages in Pithapuram mandal. Literacy is 55%, 1 points below the mandal average of 56% and the sex ratio is 981 women per 1,000 men. It lies 3 km from the Kakinada district centre, 8 km from Gollaprolu, the nearest town, 6 km from Pithapuram railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 533450, served by Pithapuram post office; the LGD village code is 587463. The nearest hospital or health centre is Sri Varalakshmi Hospital, 5 km away. The village votes in Pithapuram assembly constituency, represented by MLA Konidala Pawan Kalyan. The population is estimated at 5,491 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Kolanka →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kolanka · this village | 4,657 | 55% | — |
| Jamulapalle · Pithapuram | 1,510 | 56% | 1.5 km E |
| Gokivada · Pithapuram | 2,009 | 52% | 1.6 km N |
| Mangiturthi · Pithapuram | 2,737 | 53% | 1.7 km W |
| Viravada · Pithapuram | 7,170 | 54% | 2.2 km S |
| Narasingapuram · Pithapuram | — | — | 2.3 km SE |
| Jagapathirajapuram · Pithapuram | 433 | 70% | 2.5 km N |
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.
1 Temple mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
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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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