Palakonda

Palakonda
Town
Sri kota durga temple
Palakonda Location in Andhra Pradesh, India
Coordinates: 18°36′00″N83°45′00″E / 18.6000°N 83.7500°E / 18.6000; 83.7500
Country	India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District	Parvathipuram Manyam district
Government
•  MLA	Nimmaka Jayakrishna
Area [1]
• Total	6.50 km2 (2.51 sq mi)
Population  (2011) [1]
• Total	31,425
• Density	4,830/km2 (12,500/sq mi)
Languages
• Official	Telugu
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	532440
Telephone code	08941
Vehicle Registration	AP30 (former) AP39 (from 30 January 2019) [2]
Lok Sabha constituency	Araku
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Palakonda
Website	palakonda.cdma.ap.gov.in

Palakonda is a town in Parvathipuram Manyam district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is a nagar panchayat and the mandal headquarters of Palakonda mandal in Palakonda revenue division ^{[3] [4]}

Geography

Palakonda is located at 18°36′00″N83°45′00″E / 18.6000°N 83.7500°E / 18.6000; 83.7500 . ^[5] It has an average elevation of 44 meters (147 feet).

Demography

According to the Imperial Gazetteer of India, ^[6] Palkonda Taluk was in Vizagapatnam district with a total area of 502 square miles (1,300 km²). The cultivated land is irrigated by the Nagavali River. The Agency area contains about 56 square miles (150 km²) of Reserved Forest. The population in 1901 was 215,376 compared with 201,331 in 1891. There were two towns Palkonda and Razam and 334 villages. The Agency area had population of about 11,000 people, chiefly Savaras living in 106 villages. The greater part of Taluk was held on Ryotwari and belongs to Rajas of Bobbili and Vizianagram.

It was within Ganjam District of Orissa state till 1950 when Srikakulam district was formed.

Government and politics

Palakonda Nagar panchayat is a civic body constituted in the year 2013. It is spread over an area of 6.50 km² (2.51 sq mi). ^[1] The present municipal commissioner of the town is B. Ramu. ^[7]

Assembly constituency

Palakonda is an assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh reserved for Scheduled Castes. There were 120,726 registered voters in this constituency in 1999 elections. Now from 2009 onwards the Assembly Constituency reservation changed to S.T.

List of elected members: ^[8]

Palakonda Assembly candidates details:

Year	Winner	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Party	Votes	Margin (majority)
2014	Viswasarai Kalavathi	YSRCP	55337	Jaya Krishna Nimmaka	TDP	53717	1620

• • GENERAL SEAT
• 1951 – Sri Palavalasa Sangam Naidu
  • RESERVED FOR SCHEDULE CASTE
• 1978 – Sri Kambala Rajaratnam
• 1983 – Sri Gonipati Syamala Rao
• 1985 – Sri Tale Bhadrayya
• 1989 – Smt Amrutha Kumari P.J.
• 1994 – Sri Tale Bhadrayya
• 1999 - Smt Amrutha Kumari P.J.
• 2004 – Sri Kambala Jogulu
  • RESERVED FOR SCHEDULE TRIBE
• 2009 – Sri Nimmaka Sugreevulu
• 2014 – Smt Viswasarai Kalavathi

References

1. "STATISTICAL INFORMATION OF ULBs & UDAs" (PDF). Directorate of Town and Country Planning. Government of Andhra Pradesh. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 July 2019. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
2. "New 'AP 39' code to register vehicles in Andhra Pradesh launched". The New Indian Express. Vijayawada. 31 January 2019. Archived from the original on 3 February 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
3. "Srikakulam district mandals" (PDF). Census of India. The Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. pp. 175, 209. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
4. "Nagar panchayat chief in ACB net – The Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
5. Falling Rain Genomics.Palkonda
6. Imperial Gazetteer of India, Vol. 19, pp: 367-8.
7. "Municipality Contacts". Archived from the original on 15 May 2015.
8. Election Commission of India.1978-2004 results.Palakonda Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine