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Guttapadu observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Andhra Pradesh.
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, Guttapadu ranks #16 of 20 villages in Orvakal mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Guttapadu is a village of 1,246 people in 283 households (Census 2011) in Orvakal mandal, Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh, the 16th-largest of 20 villages in Orvakal mandal. Literacy is 58%, 3 points above the mandal average of 55% and the sex ratio is 877 women per 1,000 men. It lies 64 km from the Kurnool district centre, 10 km from Nannur, the nearest town, 18 km from Dupadu railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 518010, served by Vorvakallu post office; the LGD village code is 594028. The nearest hospital or health centre is Sri Venkateshwara Clinic, 3 km away. The village votes in Panyam assembly constituency, represented by MLA Gowru Charitha Reddy. The population is estimated at 1,357 in 2026, up 9% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Guttapadu →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guttapadu · this village | 1,246 | 58% | — |
| Orvakal · Orvakal | 4,869 | 63% | 2.3 km NE |
| N.Konthalapadu · Orvakal | 1,071 | 52% | 2.8 km SW |
| Husainapuram · Orvakal | 5,456 | 52% | 4.4 km SE |
| Kannamadakala · Orvakal | 2,376 | 49% | 4.9 km NE |
| Kalva · Orvakal | 5,123 | 54% | 6.1 km SE |
| Kalva · Kolar | 579 | 63% | 6.1 km SE |
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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