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Ponnapalle
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Ponnapalle
Location in Andhra Pradesh, India
Coordinates: 16°03′27″N80°41′21″E / 16.0575465°N 80.6890654°E / 16.0575465; 80.6890654
Country India
State Andhra Pradesh
District Guntur
Mandal Cherukupalle
Government
[1]
  Type Panchayati raj
  BodyPonnapalle gram panchayat
Area
[2]
  Total671 ha (1,658 acres)
Population
 (2011) [3]
  Total3,267
  Density490/km2 (1,300/sq mi)
Languages
  Official Telugu
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
522259
Area code +91–8644
Vehicle registration AP

Ponnapalle is a village in Guntur district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is the located in Cherukupalle mandal of Tenali revenue division. [2]

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Geography

Ponnapalle is situated to the northeast of the mandal headquarters, Arumbaka, [4] at 16°03′27″N80°41′21″E / 16.0575465°N 80.6890654°E / 16.0575465; 80.6890654 . It is spread over an area of 671 ha (1,660 acres). [2]

History

This village was gifted by Komati Peda Vemareddy, the ruler of Kondaveedu, to a Brahmin called Ponnapalli Peri Bhaskarudu at the time of a lunar eclipse as the latter is said to have cured the ruler's son from elephantasis with his spiritual powers. Srinadha, the great Telugu poet, wrote about it in Sanskrit slokas on stone slabs and they are now preserved in the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library at Madras [5] [6]

A Manual of the Kistna District, in the Presidency of Madras, compiled in the year 1881-82, mentions the villages Ponnapalle and Arepalli as inam villages and the present area under Repalli Taluka. Given the presence of agraharms in these two villages, they might have been inams given to Brahmins at that time. [7]

Demographics

The village is home to 3,267 people with 980 households. The population consists of 0% schedule castes and 11% schedule tribes. It has healthy sex ratio of 1018 females per 1000 male in the village. The population of this village increased by 9.6% between 2001-11.

Government and politics

Ponnapalle gram panchayat is the local self-government of the village. [1] It is divided into wards and each ward is represented by a ward member. [8]

Education

As per the school information report for the academic year 2018–19, the village has a total of 3 schools. These schools include 1 government school, 2 Mandal Parishad and 3 private schools. [9]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "District Census Hand Book : Guntur (Part B)" (PDF). Census of India . Directorate of Census Operations, Andhra Pradesh. 2011. pp. 14, 480. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  3. "Population". Census of India . Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India . Retrieved 9 May 2019.
  4. "District Census Handbook : Guntur (Part A)" (PDF). Census of India. Directorate of Census Operations, Andhra Pradesh. 2011. pp. 5, 794–795. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  5. Census 1961 (PDF). Govt of Andhra Pradesh. p. 106.
  6. Inscriptions Of The Madras Presidency Vol-2. 1919. pp. 116, 821.
  7. A Manual of the Kistna District, in the Presidency of Madras: Compiled for the Government of Madras. Lawrence Asylum Press. 1 January 1883.
  8. Seetharam, Mukkavilli (1 January 1990). Citizen Participation in Rural Development. Mittal Publications. p. 34. ISBN   9788170992271.
  9. "School Information". Commissionerate of School Education. Government of Andhra Pradesh. Retrieved 7 May 2019.