Padra observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Telangana.
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, Padra ranks #2 of 7 villages in Padara mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Padra is a village of 5,464 people in 1,509 households (Census 2011) in Padara mandal, Nagarkurnool district, Telangana, the 2nd-largest of 7 villages in Padara mandal. Literacy is 46%, about the same as the mandal average of 46% and the sex ratio is 925 women per 1,000 men. It lies 37 km from the Nagarkurnool district centre, 8 km from Amrabad, the nearest town, 60 km from Macherla railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 509201, served by Amrabad post office; the LGD village code is 575621. Mapped within or next to the village: primary health centre. The population is estimated at 6,442 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Padra →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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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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