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Samarlakota (
Telugu Telugu may refer to: * Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India *Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India * Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language ** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode S ...
:సామర్లకోట) is a town in
Kakinada district Kakinada district is a district in the Coastal Andhra Region in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. With Kakinada as its administrative headquarters, it was proposed on 26 January 2022 to become one of the resultant twenty six districts in the ...
of the
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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 ...
. The town forms a part of
Godavari Urban Development Authority The Godavari Urban Development Authority (GUDA) is an urban planning agency spread over the district of East Godavari in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It was constituted on 4 November 2016, under ''Andhra Pradesh Metropolitan Region and Ur ...
. It was previously known as ''Chamarlakota'' (
Telugu Telugu may refer to: * Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India *Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India * Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language ** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode S ...
:చామర్లకోట), which dates back to a local ''
kaifiyat A ''Kaifiyat'' is a historical record, especially about a village or a town, from the Deccan region of India. Compiled in 18th and 19th centuries by village accountants, based on earlier records, the ''kaifiyats'' are a valuable source of local his ...
'' that was written in the mid-eighteenth century.


Geography

Samarlakota is located at . It has an average elevation of


Transport

The
Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) is the state-owned road transport corporation in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Its headquarters is located at NTR Administrative Block of RTC House in Pandit Nehru bus station of V ...
operates bus services from Samarlakota bus station. Samarlakota railway station is an important
railway junction A junction, in the context of rail transport, is a place at which two or more rail routes converge or diverge. This implies a physical connection between the tracks of the two routes (assuming they are of the same gauge), provided by ''points'' ( ...
on the Visakhapatnam-Vijayawada section of Howrah-Chennai main line. The railway line to
Kakinada Kakinada ( formerly called Kakinandiwada, Coringa, and Cocanada; ) is the sixth largest city of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and serves as the district headquarters of the Kakinada District. It lies on the coast of the Bay of Bengal. J. ...
branches at this railway junction. The nearest airport to Samarlakota town is
Rajahmundry Airport Rajahmundry Airport is a domestic airport located at Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is located on National Highway 516E. During 1985–1994, it was used by Vayudoot. It is heavily used by the helicopters of Oil and Natural Gas Corpo ...
, which is away.


Demographics

Samarlakota is a municipal town in the district of East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh. Samarlakota is divided into 18 wards, for which elections are held every five years. Samarlakota Municipality has a population of 56,864, of which 28,115 are males and 28,749 are females, according to a report released by Census India 2011. The population of children aged six or younger is 5,793, which is 10.19% of total population of Samarlakota. In Samarlakota Municipality, the male:female sex ratio is 1,023 per 1,000 males, against state average of 993. The child sex ratio in Samarlakota is around 948 compared to the Andhra Pradesh state average of 939. The literacy rate of Samarlakota is 74.58%, higher than state average of 67.02%. Male literacy is around 78.77% while female literacy rate is 70.51%.


Governance

Samarlakota municipality has over 16,044 houses to which it supplies basic amenities like water and sewerage. It is authorized to build roads within the municipality limits and impose taxes on properties coming under its jurisdiction.


Economy

Manufacturing industries at an industrial estate include oil, food and spice manufacture; companies are Ammbati Subbanna & Co, AS Brand Oil, Arun Dorakula Food & Spices Company, and ADR brand are situated in Samarlakota.


Religion

Religious organisations are: * Sri Chalukya Kumararaama Sri Bheemeswara *Swami vaari temple, *Prasanna aanjaneya Swami temple * Ganapati Temple, *Mehar complex *Mutyalamma temple *Sai Baba Temple *Station centre *Municipal Centre *Bhimavarampeta *St.Anthony Shrine Catholic church *Centenary Baptist Church, * Augustana Lutheran church *True Gospel church *Andhra Baptist Churches


Education

The town's first boarding school was established in 1882, by the
Canadian Baptist Mission The Canadian Baptist Mission (CBM) is an international Baptist Christian missionary society. It is a constituent board affiliated with the Canadian Baptist Ministries. History It was established in 1850 by the Canadian Baptist Ministries. The CBM ...
it was known as C. B. M. Boys' School. Notable among those who were associated includes A. B. Masilamani R. R. Sundara Rao, ''Bhakti Theology in the Telugu Hymnal'', CISRS, Bangalore, 1993, pp.48, 56, 57.

/ref> and his teacher
Chetty Bhanumurthy Chetti Bhanumurti (born 23 February 1888;Mary Stillwell McLaurin, ''Chetti Bhanumurti'' in John Craig, J. R. Stillwell, I. C. Archibald, A. E. Baskerville (Edited), ''Some of the Trophies: Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission Board Jubilee Volume, Te ...
. Primary and secondary school education is imparted by government, aided and private schools, under the state's School Education Department. The medium of instruction followed by schools are English and Telugu.


References

{{Kakinada district Hindu holy cities Cities and towns in Kakinada district