Kalluru or Kallur is a
mandal
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 ...
in the
Khammam district of
Telangana
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,
India
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.
Demographics
Kalluru
mandal
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 ...
has a population of 63,336 while Kalluru town, which is the headquarters, has a population of 15,807 (2011 census).
Kalluru mandal has a literacy rate of 41% while the headquarters has a literacy rate of 72 (2011 Census).
Temples
Kalluru has a famous temple of Lord
Shiva
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known as
Srikashmira Mahadevakshetram, Anjaneya Swamy temple, Kanaka Durga temple, Ganesh temple, Venugopalaswamy temple and Shirdi Said Baba temple. Both Vijayawada Kanakadurga temple and Bhadrachalam temple 100 km from this town.
References
Mandals in Khammam district
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