Chittamur mandal is one of the 34

mandals A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

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in the

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state of

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. It is a part of

Gudur revenue division Gudur revenue division is an administrative division in the Tirupati district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is one of the four revenue divisions in the district with eight mandals under its administration. The divisional headquarte ...

with its headquarters at

Chittamur Chittamuru is a village and a Subdivisions of India, Mandal in Tirupati district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. References

Villages in Nellore district {{Nellore-geo-stub ...

History

Chittamur mandal was a part of Nellore district until 2022. It was made part of the newly formed Tirupati district effective from 4 April 2022 by the

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-led

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Biodiversity

Chittamur mandal has

brackish water Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater. It may result from mixing seawater (salt water) and fresh water together, as in estua ...

ecosystem. Every year, terrestrial and aquatic birds migrate to

Pulicat Lake Pulicat Lagoon is the second largest brackish water lagoon in India, (after Chilika Lake), measuring . Major part of the lagoon comes under Tirupati district of Andhra Pradesh. The lagoon is one of the three important wetlands to attract northea ...

for a temporary stay. The ecosystem covers an area of including parts of the mandal along with

Doravarisatram Doravarisatram is a Mandal in Tirupati district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. References

Villages in Nellore district {{Nellore-geo-stub ...

Sullurpeta Sullurupeta is a town in Tirupati district of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is a municipality and the headquarters of Sullurpeta mandal and Sullurupeta revenue division. It serves as a gateway to Satish Dhawan Space Centre(SDSC) at Sriharikota. ...

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and

Vakadu Vakadu is a village on the bank of Swarnamukhi river in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located in Tirupati district and is a mandal headquarters of Vakadu mandal. The village was a part of Gudur mandal. Notable people * N. Janard ...

mandals. The terrestrial birds include

painted storks The painted stork (''Mycteria leucocephala'') is a large wader in the stork family. It is found in the wetlands of the plains of tropical Asia south of the Himalayas in the Indian Subcontinent and extending into Southeast Asia. Their distinctiv ...

large egrets The great egret (''Ardea alba''), also known as the common egret, large egret, or (in the Old World) great white egret or great white heron is a large, widely distributed egret. The four subspecies are found in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and ...

, little egrets,

grey pelicans The spot-billed pelican (''Pelecanus philippensis'') or gray pelican is a member of the pelican family. It breeds in southern Asia from southern Iran across India east to Indonesia. It is a bird of large inland and coastal waters, especially larg ...

grey herons The grey heron (''Ardea cinerea'') is a long-legged wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia and also parts of Africa. It is resident in much of its range, but some populations from the more northern ...

; water birds include

northern pintails The pintail or northern pintail (''Anas acuta'') is a duck species with wide geographic distribution that breeds in the northern areas of Europe and across the Palearctic and North America. It is migratory and winters south of its breeding ra ...

black-winged stilts The black-winged stilt (''Himantopus himantopus'') is a widely distributed very long-legged wader in the avocet and stilt family ( Recurvirostridae). The scientific name ''H. himantopus'' is sometimes applied to a single, almost cosmopolitan sp ...

northern shovelers The northern shoveler (; ''Spatula clypeata''), known simply in Britain as the shoveler, is a common and widespread duck. It breeds in northern areas of Europe and across the Palearctic and across most of North America, wintering in southern Euro ...

common teal The Eurasian teal (''Anas crecca''), common teal, or Eurasian green-winged teal is a common and widespread duck that breeds in temperate Eurosiberia and migrates south in winter. The Eurasian teal is often called simply the teal due to being th ...

seagulls Gulls, or colloquially seagulls, are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari. They are most closely related to the terns and skimmers and only distantly related to auks, and even more distantly to waders. Until the 21st century, ...

terns Terns are seabirds in the family Laridae that have a worldwide distribution and are normally found near the sea, rivers, or wetlands. Terns are treated as a subgroup of the family Laridae which includes gulls and skimmers and consists of e ...

sandpipers Sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil. ...

, and common coots.

Demographics

, Chittamur mandal had a total population of 40,241 with 20,503 male population and 19,738 female population with a density of . It had a

sex ratio The sex ratio (or gender ratio) is usually defined as the ratio of males to females in a population. As explained by Fisher's principle, for evolutionary reasons this is typically about 1:1 in species which reproduce sexually. Many species devia ...

of 963.

Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes The Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) are officially designated groups of people and among the most disadvantaged socio-economic groups in India. The terms are recognized in the Constitution of India and the groups are designa ...

made up 16,035 and 5,905 of the population respectively. It had a literacy rate of 57.65% with 64.13% among males and 50.95% among females.

Administration

Chittamur mandal is a part of

. Its headquarters are located at

Chittamur Chittamuru is a village and a Subdivisions of India, Mandal in Tirupati district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. References

Villages in Nellore district {{Nellore-geo-stub ...

. As of 2011 census, the mandal comprises the following 41 villages: * Note: Devuni Khandrika, Gangupalem, Kothapalem, Padarthivari Khandrika, Pothunayanipalle, Rayareddipalem and Vadlavanipalle were uninhabited

Politics

Chittamur mandal is a part of

Gudur Assembly constituency Gudur Assembly constituency is a SC (Scheduled Caste) reserved constituency of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is one among 7 constituencies in the Tirupati district. Varaprasad Rao Velagapalli of Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Con ...

and

Tirupati Lok Sabha constituency Tirupati Lok Sabha constituency is one of the twenty-five Lok Sabha constituencies of Andhra Pradesh in India. It comprises seven assembly segments and belongs to Tirupati district. Assembly segments The seven Assembly segments of Tirupati ...

. , the mandal had 29,607 eligible voters with 14,712 male voters and 14,895 female voters.

Varaprasad Rao Velagapalli Velagapalli Varaprasada Rao is an Indian politician and was a Member of parliament, Lok Sabha, Member of Parliament of the 16th Lok Sabha from Tirupati, Tirupati (Lok Sabha constituency), Andhra Pradesh. He won the 2014 Indian general election ...

is representing the Gudur constituency as the

Member of the Legislative Assembly A member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to a legislative assembly. Most often, the term refers to a subnational assembly such as that of a state, province, or territory of a country. S ...

(MLA) in

Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly or Andhra Pradesh Śāsana Sabha is the lower house of the Andhra Pradesh Legislature. The Legislative Assembly consists of 175 members which are elected by adult universal suffrage under the first-pa ...

, and Maddila Gurumoorthy is representing the Tirupati constituency as the

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

(MP) in

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References

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