Elgaid observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Telangana.
Temples near Elgaid
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Eligaid mandal is Sri Abhayaanjaneya Swamy Mandiram, Garrepally. No temple of this dedication is on record within Elgaid 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, Elgaid ranks #1 of 9 villages in Eligaid mandal — the largest.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Elgaid is a village of 6,201 people in 1,741 households (Census 2011) in Eligaid mandal, Peddapalli district, Telangana, the largest of 9 villages in Eligaid mandal. Literacy is 56%, about the same as the mandal average of 55% and the sex ratio is 1,028 women per 1,000 men. It lies 15 km from the Peddapalli district centre, 10 km from Choppadandi, the nearest town, 8 km from Sultanabad railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 505525, served by Eligaid post office; the LGD village code is 572009. The nearest hospital or health centre is Praja Clinic, <1 km away. The sarpanch is Kappala Praveen. The population is estimated at 6,885 in 2026, up 11% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Eligaid →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elgaid · this village | 6,201 | 56% | — |
| Narsapoor · Nizamsagar | 0 | — | 1.8 km SE |
| Ryakaldevpalle · Eligaid | 1,954 | 49% | 2.7 km E |
| Doolikatta · Eligaid | 3,895 | 55% | 3.8 km NE |
| Muppirithota · Eligaid | 2,205 | 52% | 5 km NE |
| Poosala · Sulthanabad | 4,372 | 60% | 5.4 km SE |
| Ithrajpalle · Sulthanabad | 1,839 | 55% | 6.1 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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