Sugarcane turned bitter for thousands of farmers in North Andhra districts
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Devunigumpa observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Andhra Pradesh.
The principal temple recorded for Komarada mandal is Sri Surya peetam. No temple of this dedication is on record within Devunigumpa 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, Devunigumpa ranks #61 of 99 villages in Komarada mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Devunigumpa is a village of 193 people in 51 households (Census 2011) in Komarada mandal, Parvathipuram Manyam district, Andhra Pradesh, the 61st-largest of 99 villages in Komarada mandal. Literacy is 54%, 3 points above the mandal average of 51% and the sex ratio is 990 women per 1,000 men. It lies 19 km from the Parvathipuram Manyam district centre, 23 km from Veeraghattam, the nearest town, 4 km from Gumada railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 535521, served by Komarada post office; the LGD village code is 581803. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital,Madalangi, 8 km away. The village votes in Kurupam assembly constituency, represented by MLA Jagadeeswari Thoyaka. The population is estimated at 210 in 2026, up 9% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Kotipam →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Devunigumpa · this village | 193 | 54% | — |
| Kallikota · Komarada | 1,966 | 49% | 0.6 km E |
| Dalaipeta · Komarada | 1,494 | 53% | 1.7 km NE |
| Bitrapadu · Jiyyammavalasa | 954 | 58% | 1.8 km SE |
| Sominaiduvalasa · Komarada | 713 | 55% | 1.9 km W |
| Gangareguvalasa · Komarada | 2,041 | 63% | 1.9 km W |
| Kodulagumpa · Komarada | 468 | 54% | 2.1 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 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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