Angalakuduru is an area of

Tenali Tenali is a city in Guntur district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is a municipality and the headquarters of Tenali mandal and Tenali revenue division. The city is renowned for art, culture, drama and hence, it is called ''Andhra ...

Guntur district Guntur district is one of the twenty six districts in the Coastal Andhra region of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The administrative seat of the district is located at Guntur, the largest city of the district in terms of area and with a po ...

of the

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n state of

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

. It is located in

Tenali mandal Tenali mandal is one of the 57 mandals in Guntur district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is under the administration of Tenali revenue division, headquartered at Tenali. The mandal is located in Velanadu region, bounded by Pedakakani ...

Tenali revenue division Tenali is a city in Guntur district of the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is a municipality and the headquarters of Tenali mandal and Tenali revenue division. The city is renowned for art, culture, d ...

. It is a residential area in Tenali. It forms a part of

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Geography

Angalakuduru is situated to the west of

, at .

Demographics

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, Angalakuduru had a population of 9920. A sex ratio of 1059 females per 1000 males. The average literacy rate stands at 77.75% with 7,088 literates, significantly higher than the state average of 67.41%.

Government and politics

Angalakuduru

gram panchayat Gram Panchayat () is a basic village-governing institute in Indian villages. It is a democratic structure at the grass-roots level in India. It is a political institute, acting as cabinet of the village. The Gram Sabha work as the general bod ...

is the

local self-government Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of public administration within a particular sovereign state. This particular usage of the word government refers specifically to a level of administration that is both geographically-l ...

of the village. There are 20 wards, each represented by an elected ward member. The present

sarpanch A sarpanch ( IAST: ''Sarpañch'' Hindi: ''सरपंच'') or Gram Pradhan or Mukhiya is a decision-maker, elected by the village-level constitutional body of local self-government called the Gram Sabha (village government) in India. The Sarp ...

is ''vacant'', elected indirectly by the ward members. The village is administered by the ''Tenali Mandal Parishad'' at the intermediate level of

panchayat raj The Panchayat raj is a political system, originating from the Indian subcontinent, found mainly in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. It is the oldest system of local government in the Indian subcontinent, and historical menti ...

institutions.

Economy

Agriculture is the main occupation of the village and the main crops been cultivated are paddy,

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black gram ''Vigna mungo'', also known as black gram, urad bean, urid bean, mash kalai, uzhunnu parippu, ulundu paruppu, minapa pappu, uddu, or black matpe, is a bean grown in South Asia. Like its relative, the mung bean, it has been reclassified from the ...

etc. Apart from it, small scale occupations produce weaved baskets, bags, mats etc., from

water hyacinth ''Pontederia crassipes'' (formerly ''Eichhornia crassipes''), commonly known as common water hyacinth is an aquatic plant native to South America, naturalized throughout the world, and often invasive outside its native range.Guntur Guntur () is a city and the administrative headquarters of Guntur district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Guntur is spread across 168.49 km square and is the third-largest city in the state. It is situated to the west of the Ba ...

–

road passing through the village. Angalakuduru railway station is an ''F–category station'' on

Guntur–Tenali section The Guntur–Tenali section connects and of Guntur district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It intersects Howrah–Chennai main line at . The section is an electrified double-track railway, with the second line opened on 26 April 2019. ...

and is administered under

Guntur railway division Guntur Railway Division is one of the three divisions of the South Coast Railway zone of Indian Railways. The division was sanctioned in 1995–96 and was fully operational on 1 April 2003, with its headquarters at Guntur. The ''Rail Vikas Bhavan ...

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The nearest railway station to Angalakuduru village are Angalakuduru Railway station and Tenali junction railway station. The village is well connected to Tenali city . Angalakuduru is at a distance of 3 km from Tenali. According to 2011 In the Tenali City expansion the Angalakuduru village was present.

Education

The primary and secondary school education is imparted by government, aided and private schools, under the ''School Education Department'' of the state. The total number of students enrolled in primary, upper primary and high schools in the village are 1,471. VSR and JDM

Zilla Parishad High School Zilla Parishad High School (ZPHS) is a type of state-run secondary school in India. These schools are established, supervised, and funded by the District Councils of India (locally known as ''Zilla Parishad'', district level local authorities ...

is a Zilla Parishad funded school, which provides

secondary education Secondary education or post-primary education covers two phases on the International Standard Classification of Education scale. Level 2 or lower secondary education (less commonly junior secondary education) is considered the second and final pha ...

in the village.

References

External links

{{Commons, Angalakuduru Villages in Guntur district