Malladi is a village in

Palnadu district Palnadu district is a district in coastal Andhra Region in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. With Narasaraopet as its administrative headquarters, it was formed on 04 April 2022 to become one of the resultant twenty-six districts The district ...

of the

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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 Amaravathi mandal of Guntur revenue division. The village forms a part of

Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Andhra Pradesh Capital Region is the metropolitan region area of Andhra Pradesh state capital, the defacto capital city of Andhra Pradesh. Vijayawada is the headquarters and the largest city of the region. It includes the major ancient cities o ...

, under the jurisdiction of APCRDA.

Geography

Malladi is situated to the west of the mandal headquarters,

Amaravathi Amaravati () is the capital of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located on the banks of the river Krishna in Guntur district. The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone at a ceremonial event in Uddandar ...

, at . It is spread over an area of . This village and the surrounding areas of Amaravathi have a continuous history of at least 2,300 years.

Demographics

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, the village had a population of 2,582. The total population constitute, 1,247 males and 1,335 females —a sex ratio of 1071 females per 1000 males. 289 children are in the age group of 0–6 years, of which 144 are boys and 145 are girls —a ratio of 1007 per 1000. The average literacy rate stands at 59.83% with 1,372 literates, significantly lower than the state average of 67.41%.

Government and politics

Malladi

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 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 by the ward members. The village is administered by the ''Amaravathi Mandal Parishad'' at the intermediate level of panchayat raj institutions.

Education

As per the school information report for the academic year 2018–19, the village has a total of 4

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Mandal Parishad Panchayat samiti is a rural local government (panchayat) body at the intermediate tehsil (taluka/mandal) level in India. It works for the villages of the tehsil that together are called a development block. It has been said to be the "panchayat ...

References

{{Reflist Geography of Andhra Pradesh