Sattenapalle mandal is one of the

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 ...

s 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

Indian state India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, with a total of 36 entities. The states and union territories are further subdivided into districts and smaller administrative divisions. History Pre-indepen ...

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 under the administration of

Sattenapalli revenue division Sattenapalli revenue division is an administrative division in the Palnadu district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is one of the three revenue divisions in the district and comprises 9 mandals. It was formed on 4 April 2022 along wi ...

and the headquarters are located at

Sattenapalle Sattenapalle is a town in Palnadu district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is a municipality and the headquarters of Sattenapalle mandal under Sattenapalle revenue division. History The region is an important region of the ancient Ka ...

. The mandal is bounded by

Krosuru Krosuru is a village in Palnadu district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is the mandal headquarters of Krosuru mandal in Sattenapalli revenue division. Geography Krosuru is situated at . It is spread over an area of . Demographi ...

, Pedakurapadu, Rajupalem,

Medikonduru Medikonduru is a village in Guntur district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is the headquarters of Medikonduru mandal in Guntur revenue division. Geography Medikonduru is situated at . It is spread over an area of . Governance ...

, Muppalla and Phirangipuram.And it is a part of

APCRDA The Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority (abbreviated as APCRDA), Amaravati, ACT No. 27 of 2020. It was notified on 31 July 2020 by the Government of Andhra Pradesh as per ''The Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority ...

also comes under capital region

Demographics

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...

, the mandal had a population of 130,608. The total population constitute, 64,764 males and 65,844 females —a sex ratio of 1017 females per 1000 males. 13,482 children are in the age group of 0–6 years, of which 6,979 are boys and 6,503 are girls —a ratio of 932 girls per 1000 boys. The average literacy rate stands at 63.43% with 74,291 literates.

Administration

The mandal is partially a part of the

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

. It is under the control of a

tahsildar In India and Pakistan, a Tehsildar or Mamlatdar is a tax officer accompanied by revenue inspectors. They are in charge of obtaining taxes from a tehsil with regard to land revenue. A tehsildar is also known as an executive magistrate of the relev ...

and the present tahsildar is K.V.Srinivasa Rao. Sattenapalle mandal is one of the 4 mandals under Sattenapalle (Assembly constituency), which in turn represents

Narasaraopet (Lok Sabha constituency) Narasaraopet 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 Palnadu district. Assembly segments Narasaraopet Lok Sabha constituency co ...

Settlements

, the mandal has 18 settlements, which includes 1 town and 17 villages. The settlements in the mandal are listed below: ''Note: M-

Municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Education

The mandal plays a major role in education for the rural students of the nearby villages. The primary and secondary school education is imparted by government, aided and private schools, under the ''School Education Department'' of the state. As per the school information report for the academic year 2015–16, the mandal has more than 19,931 students enrolled in over 136 schools.

Transport

Guntur Guntur () is a city and the administrative headquarters of Guntur district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Guntur is spread across 168.49 km square and is the third-largest city in the state. It is situated to the west of the Ba ...

railway station is 37 km to sattenapalle mandal.

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