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Pallegunta observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Andhra Pradesh.
Temples near Pallegunta
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Gurajala mandal is sri patha pateshwari amma vari temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Pallegunta 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, Pallegunta ranks #5 of 10 villages in Gurajala mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Pallegunta is a village of 4,274 people in 1,118 households (Census 2011) in Gurajala mandal, Palnadu district, Andhra Pradesh, the 5th-largest of 10 villages in Gurajala mandal. Literacy is 50%, about the same as the mandal average of 50% and the sex ratio is 988 women per 1,000 men. It lies 36 km from the Palnadu district centre, 3 km from Gurazala, the nearest town, 2 km from Gurujala railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 522415, served by Gurazalla post office; the LGD village code is 589845. Mapped within or next to the village: primary school. The village votes in Gurajala assembly constituency, represented by MLA Yarapathineni Srinivasa Rao. The population is estimated at 4,654 in 2026, up 9% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Ambapuram →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pallegunta · this village | 4,274 | 50% | — |
| Gurazala · Gurajala | 26,190 | 55% | 2.5 km NW |
| Gangavaram · Gurajala | 3,448 | 49% | 3.7 km N |
| Cherlagudi Padu · Gurajala | 5,530 | 53% | 4.5 km S |
| Pulipadu · Gurajala | 6,788 | 51% | 7.2 km N |
| Sankarapuram Siddhayi · Karempudi | 5,147 | 50% | 7.2 km SE |
| Miriyala · Karempudi | 4,263 | 44% | 7.7 km S |
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.
1 mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors, nearest first. Government school lists (UDISE) will replace this when loaded.
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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