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Ramathirtham observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Andhra Pradesh.
The principal temple recorded for Nellimarla mandal is Sri Venkateswara Devastanam;Sri Umamaheswara Devalayam. No temple of this dedication is on record within Ramathirtham 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, Ramathirtham ranks #20 of 31 villages in Nellimarla mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Ramathirtham is a village of 1,040 people in 274 households (Census 2011) in Nellimarla mandal, Vizianagaram district, Andhra Pradesh, the 20th-largest of 31 villages in Nellimarla mandal. Literacy is 55%, 7 points above the mandal average of 48% and the sex ratio is 1,043 women per 1,000 men. It lies 525 km from the Vizianagaram district centre, 3 km from Varini, the nearest town, 16 km from Talamanchi railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 535218, served by Ramathirtam post office; the LGD village code is 583143. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Ramathirtham, <1 km away. The village votes in Bhimli assembly constituency, represented by MLA Ganta Srinivasa Rao. The population is estimated at 1,226 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Ramathertham →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ramathirtham · this village | 1,040 | 55% | — |
| Dandigunta · Vidavalur | 2,319 | 63% | 3.2 km W |
| Varini · Vidavalur | 10,153 | 49% | 3.2 km W |
| Gogulapalle · Allur | 4,384 | 56% | 5.3 km NW |
| Alaganipadu · Vidavalur | 1,922 | 65% | 6.3 km SW |
| Purini · Allur | 3,001 | 54% | 6.3 km W |
| Utukuru · Vidavalur | 8,016 | 51% | 7.1 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.
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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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