Payapur observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Telangana.
The principal temple recorded for Kalluru mandal is satyanarayana swamy temple, pinapaka. No temple of this dedication is on record within Payapur 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, Payapur ranks #23 of 23 villages in Kalluru mandal — the smallest.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Payapur is a village of 719 people in 189 households (Census 2011) in Kalluru mandal, Khammam district, Telangana, the 23rd-largest of 23 villages in Kalluru mandal. Literacy is 52%, 4 points below the mandal average of 56% and the sex ratio is 970 women per 1,000 men. It lies 31 km from the Khammam district centre, 5 km from Kalluru, the nearest town, 31 km from Bonakalu railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 507209, served by Kallur (Khammam) post office; the LGD village code is 579798. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Homoeo Dispensary, Kallur (NRHM), 5 km away. The population is estimated at 848 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Payapur →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Payapur · this village | 719 | 52% | — |
| Mucharam · Kalluru | 2,327 | 53% | 1.8 km SW |
| Nutankal · Thallada | 3,956 | 53% | 4.3 km NW |
| Yagna Narayanapuram · Kalluru | 973 | 56% | 4.6 km SW |
| Chandrupatla · Kalluru | 4,248 | 50% | 4.5 km E |
| Kalluru · Kalluru | 15,807 | 63% | 4.6 km NE |
| Erraboinapalli · Kalluru | 3,777 | 55% | 5 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.
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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