Piduguralla

Piduguralla
City
Nickname:  lime city of india
Piduguralla Location in Andhra Pradesh, India
Coordinates: 16°28′49″N79°53′21″E / 16.480368°N 79.889170°E / 16.480368; 79.889170
Country	India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District	Palnadu
Talukas	Piduguralla
Government
• Type	municipality
Area [1]
• Total	31.49 km2 (12.16 sq mi)
Population [2] [3]
• Total	63,103
• Density	2,000/km2 (5,200/sq mi)
Languages
• Official	Telugu
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	522413
Telephone code	+91–8649
Vehicle registration	AP
Website	Piduguralla Municipality

Piduguralla is a city in Palnadu district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.The City is the headquarters of Piduguralla mandal and administered under Gurazala revenue division. ^[4] The City is also known as Lime City of India as there are abundant reserves of limestone..

Governance

Civic administration

The Piduguralla municipality was formed on 21 May 2005 and has an extent of 31.63 km² (12.21 sq mi). ^[5]

Politics

Piduguralla is a part of Gurazala (Assembly constituency) for Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Kasu Mahesh Reddy is the present MLA of the constituency from YSR Congress Party. ^[6] It is also a part of Narasaraopet (Lok Sabha constituency) which was won by Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu of YSR Congress Party. ^{[7] [8]}

Economy

Agriculture

Most of the people here depend on agriculture with fertile lands having abundant water from the Nagarjunasagar canals.

The major agriculture produce includes, paddy, cotton, chillies etc. Hence, the town has many rice and cotton mills.

Industries

There are many Limestone Kilns as well. ^{[9] [10]} So, one of the main professions of the people is quarrying and exporting limestone and white cement in Piduguralla.

Business is not restricted to lime stone only; there are several other industries like Timber depots, Hollow brick industries, Computer Institutions, Photo studios, Printing presses, Hand embroidery, Fancy stores, Stationary shops, Pharmacies etc. Overall it is one of the most important business places in Guntur district.

The town also has big companies' branches like Reliance Digital, Reliance Trends. It also has companies like Surya Cement, T&D Group Pvt Ltd (under which it has T&D Minerals and T&D Future Kids) etc.

Transport

National Highway 167A (NH167A) passes through Piduguralla. It is well connected by buses for Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru, Tirupati, Nellore, Guntur, Amaravati, Vijayawada, Tenali, Narasaraopet, Macherla, Repalle, Warangal, Suryapet, Kodad, Sattenapalli and Ongole. It has a well established bus depot that connects villages around the town. The bus station code is PDRL.

Trains from/to Guntur, Vijayawada, Vizag, Hyderabad, Chennai, Tirupathi, Kerala, and Kolkata pass via Piduguralla. Later, Guntur-Nadikudi-Macherla line was converted from Meter Gauge to Broad Gauge [under Project Unigauge] and a new line was laid from Bibinagar, near Hyderabad, to Nadikudi. Thus Piduguralla is connected directly to Hyderabad by Broad Gauge Line. Piduguralla is located on the Pagidipalle-Nallapadu section Guntur division of South Central Railway (SCR). The railway Station code for Piduguralla is PGRL.

The railway line is an electrified single line one and a new railway track (Nadikudi-Srikalahasti ) is under construction. In first phase of Nadikudi-Srikalahasti 46 km From New Piduguralla Junction to Savalyapuram Junction was completed. Electrification also Completed. Present Goods Trains are running in this Route. Waiting for Passengers Trains Running Conformation from Higher Authorities.

Education

The primary and secondary school education is imparted by government, aided and private schools, under the School Education Department of the state. ^{[11] [12]} The medium of instruction followed by different schools are English, Telugu. Schools include Tirumala Oxford EM High school, Scholars International school, Sri Chaitanya , Narayana, Bhashyam Schools. There are few degree colleges as well like Tirumala Oxford womens degree college, Scholars degree college.

References

1. "Basic Information of Municipality". Commissioner & Director of Municipal Administration. Municipal Administration & Urban Development Department, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
2. "Census 2011". The Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
3. "Statistical Abstract of Andhra Pradesh, 2015" (PDF). Directorate of Economics & Statistics. Government of Andhra Pradesh. p. 43. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2019. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
4. "New Gurazala revenue division created". The Hindu. Gurazala (Guntur District). 1 July 2013. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
5. "Piduguralla Municipality". Commissioner & Director of Municipal Administration. Municipal Administration & Urban Development Department. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
6. "MLA". AP State Portal. Archived from the original on 8 October 2014. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
7. "MP (Lok Sabha)". Government of AP. Archived from the original on 21 November 2016. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
8. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 22,31. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
9. P. Samuel Jonathan (23 November 2011). "Lime City". Piduguralla (Guntur District). Retrieved 12 February 2015.
10. "Brief about Municipality". Commissioner & Director of Municipal Administration. Municipal Administration & Urban Development Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
11. "School Education Department" (PDF). School Education Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 December 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
12. "The Department of School Education - Official AP State Government Portal | AP State Portal". www.ap.gov.in. Archived from the original on 7 November 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2016.