Potharam observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Telangana.
The principal temple recorded for Bejjanki mandal is Hanuman Temple, Tarigoppula. No temple of this dedication is on record within Potharam 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, Potharam ranks #14 of 16 villages in Bejjanki mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Potharam is a village of 533 people in 139 households (Census 2011) in Bejjanki mandal, Siddipet district, Telangana, the 14th-largest of 16 villages in Bejjanki mandal. Literacy is 54%, 4 points below the mandal average of 58% and the sex ratio is 1,004 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 505473, served by Shanigaram post office; the LGD village code is 572507. The sarpanch is Singireddy Rajendhar Reddy. The population is estimated at 628 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Potharam →
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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