Burripalem 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 of Tenali revenue division. It forms a part of

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Geography

Burripalem is situated to the east of

, at .

Demographics

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, Burripalem had a population of 3,306. The total population constitute, 1,639 males and 1,667 females —a sex ratio of 1017 females per 1000 males. 262 children are in the age group of 0–6 years, of which 145 are boys and 117 are girls. The average literacy rate stands at 73.75% with 2,245 literates, significantly higher than the state average of 67.41%.

Government and politics

Burripalem

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 of the village. There are 12 wards, each represented by an elected ward member. The

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 elected indirectly by the ward members; the seat is presently vacant. The village is administered by the Tenali Mandal Parisha at the intermediate level of panchayat raj institutions.

Transport

The village has road connectivity to Tenali by the Tenali–Burripalem road. This village got adopted by Mahesh Babu after his film Srimanthudu which portraits the same concept of adoption of villages. The

railway station is 10 km from here.

Notable people

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, a Tollywood actor and ex-member of

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who hails from Burripalem, and his son Mahesh Babu, also a Tollywood actor, adopted this village in 2015. They aim to provide clean drinking water, drainage and surfaced roads.

Education

The primary and secondary school education are 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 of the village is 236.

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is a Zilla Parishad funded school, which provides

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in the village.

References

{{Villages in Tenali mandal Villages in Guntur district