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Chalivendra observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Andhra Pradesh.
Temples near Chalivendra
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Darsi mandal is Venkateswara swamy devalayamu. No temple of this dedication is on record within Chalivendra 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, Chalivendra ranks #25 of 38 villages in Darsi mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Chalivendra is a village of 838 people in 189 households (Census 2011) in Darsi mandal, Prakasam district, Andhra Pradesh, the 25th-largest of 38 villages in Darsi mandal. Literacy is 36%, 15 points below the mandal average of 50% and the sex ratio is 972 women per 1,000 men. It lies 27 km from the Prakasam district centre, 5 km from Darsi, the nearest town, 15 km from Kurichedu railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 523247, served by Darsi post office; the LGD village code is 590811. Mapped within or next to the village: primary school. The village votes in Darsi assembly constituency, represented by MLA Buchepalli Siva Prasad Reddy. The population is estimated at 913 in 2026, up 9% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Venkatachalampalli →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chalivendra · this village | 838 | 36% | — |
| Venkatachalam Palle · Darsi | 1,069 | 42% | 1.7 km NW |
| Thanam Chinthala · Darsi | 1,579 | 49% | 4.1 km N |
| Thimmaya Palem · Darsi | 1,441 | 41% | 4.1 km NE |
| Lankojana Palle · Darsi | 1,833 | 40% | 4.2 km S |
| Darsi · Darsi | 33,418 | 63% | 4.6 km SE |
| Chandaluru · Darsi | 4,427 | 44% | 5 km W |
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.
3 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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