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Thimadam 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, Thimadam ranks #46 of 66 villages in Burja mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Thimadam is a village of 262 people in 76 households (Census 2011) in Burja mandal, Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh, the 46th-largest of 66 villages in Burja mandal. Literacy is 60%, 5 points above the mandal average of 55% and the sex ratio is 941 women per 1,000 men. It lies 16 km from the Srikakulam district centre, 22 km from Singupuram, the nearest town, 13 km from Srikakulam Road railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 532445, served by Burja post office; the LGD village code is 581236. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Chennaiahpeta, 10 km away. The village votes in Amadalavalasa assembly constituency, represented by MLA Koona Ravi Kumar. The population is estimated at 285 in 2026, up 9% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Annampeta →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thimadam · this village | 262 | 60% | — |
| Annampeta · Burja | 863 | 51% | 0 km NE |
| T.V. Ramabhadra Raju Peta · Burja | 1,284 | 49% | 0.9 km SW |
| Adduripeta · Burja | 97 | 39% | 1.3 km NE |
| Jogipaduvenkata Puram · Burja | 42 | 33% | 1.7 km E |
| Narendrapuram · Burja | 136 | 52% | 1.9 km NW |
| Kothavalasa · Burja | 42 | 41% | 2 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 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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