Telangana Woman Elopes With Brother-In-Law, Villagers Throw Chilli Powder At Her
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Rapalli observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Telangana.
Temples near Rapalli
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Bonakal mandal is Venu Gopala Swami Temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Rapalli 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, Rapalli ranks #15 of 18 villages in Bonakal mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Rapalli is a village of 1,043 people in 282 households (Census 2011) in Bonakal mandal, Khammam district, Telangana, the 15th-largest of 18 villages in Bonakal mandal. Literacy is 55%, 2 points above the mandal average of 53% and the sex ratio is 994 women per 1,000 men. It lies 22 km from the Khammam district centre, 17 km from Ramanujavaram, the nearest town, 9 km from Bonakalu railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 507304, served by Siripuram (Khammam) post office; the LGD village code is 579840. The nearest hospital or health centre is Sub Centre, Pedabeeravalli, 5 km away. The population is estimated at 1,985 in 2026, up 90% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Rapalli →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rapalli · this village | 1,043 | 55% | — |
| Brahmanapalli (K) · Bonakal | 1,835 | 57% | 2.8 km S |
| Mallavaram · Madhira | 1,250 | 51% | 2.8 km SE |
| Chinna Beeravalli · Bonakal | 1,354 | 51% | 3.5 km SW |
| Rompinalla · Madhira | 813 | 48% | 4 km SE |
| Peddabeeravalli · Bonakal | 3,700 | 54% | 4.3 km W |
| Narayanapuram · Bonakal | 1,558 | 60% | 4.4 km SW |
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.
2 Temples mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
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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