Gudivada

Gudivada
—  town  —
Gudivada Location of Gudivada in Andhra Pradesh and India
Coordinates	16°26′N 80°59′E
Country	India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District(s)	Krishna district
Population	167,821 (2001)
Time zone	IST (UTC+05:30)
Area • Elevation	• 5 metres (16 ft)
Codes • Pincode • 521301 • Telephone • +91-08674 • Vehicle • AP-16

Gudivada is a census town in Krishna district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is a mandal headquarters with more than 100,000 inhabitants, lying as junction of Vijayawada-Machilipatnam-Bhimavaram-Nuzvid-Eluru in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh of India.

Demographics

As of 2011India census,Gudivada had a population of 1,18,289. Males constitute 49.82% of the population and females 50.18%. Gudivada has an average literacy rate of 82.16%, higher than the national average of 74.04%%: male literacy is 86.39%, and female literacy is 77.98%. In Gudivada, 8.4% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Climate

Gudivada falls in the hot humid region of the country and it is less than 40 miles from Bay of Bengal. The climate of the town is very hot and it is pleasant during the winter. The hottest day falls in the month of May with shift to June during some years. The maximum temperature observed is 50.3C and the minimum temperature observed is 12.90C.

Regional settings

The town has well-set-up infrastructure, including railway station, APSRTC bus station, head post office, government hospital, outdoor and indoor stadiums with Gym, court rooms, MRO office, police station(s), fire station,agricultural industries, telegraph, telecom station, taxi stand, officers' club, municipal building, function halls, hospitals, hotels, movie theaters, banks, temples, pump house, rice mills, ice factories, cinema halls, schools, petrol/gas stations, city bus service, auto nagar.

Gudivada Administrative setup is spanned over Gudivada Urban, Gudlavalleru, Kaikalur, Kalidindi, Mandavelli, Mudinepalli, Nandivada, Pamarru and Pedaparupudi. Gudivada is a Mandal with head post office, court offices, Mandal Revenue Office.

Food in Gudivada is typical of Andhra Pradesh and Krishna district food, mostly rice and curries associated with it. Food will be very spicy. You have many commercial food places (hotels) near main road and Nehru chowk.

It is well known for its Thyagaraja Aradhana carnatic music festival, vegetable market, NTR Stadium. Gudivada is religiously diversified small town with Hindu Temples like Bheemeswaraswami temple,Kanyakaparameswari temple, Vinayaka temple, Venugopalaswamy temple(Oldtown)(Earlier gudivada is known as "Gudula Vada" having more temples) and Mosques(pedda maseedu-Bantumilli road), Churches (RCM-Eluru road), Meher mandir(Gowrisankara puram), Jain temple(Market road),best places to hang out in town are bipass road rajandhranagar , when it comes to food it is raju gari hotel at ntr stadium ,flavoures ,alankar ,sri lekha

Close by villages include Anguluru,Moturu, Dondapadu, Kuchipudi, Ghantasala, Choutapalli, Gudlavalleru, Pamaru, Hanuman Junction, Mudinepalli, Ventrapragada, Vanapamula, Peddaparupudi, Chinaparupudi, Elamaru, Nimmakuru, Vadali etc.

Famous Personalities: Many famous people including [[Sandeep Parasi(HCL)][Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao]], Kodali Sri Venkateswararao(Nani) MLA,Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao, V.B. Rajendra Prasad, Kurumaddali Venkata Chalapati Rao (Pantulugari Shed), Cherukuri Ramoji Rao, (Ramoji Film City), Kaikaala Satyanarayana, Y.V.S. Chowdary, V.V. Vinayak, Gopimohan, Moturi.Prasad Rao, Dr. K.L. Narayana,(Sri Durga Arts) etc. are from the same region. Bhagavatula Venkateswara rao ( built a fresh water reservoir to used as drinking water in 25 acres of his land for the benefit of Gudivada people )

Travel modes

• Gannavaram, Vijayawada is the nearest airport(25 km). Kingfisher, Jet Airways, Spicejet operates regular flights from Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai to Gannavaram, Vijayawada. Air india recently launched its operations form Vijayawada to New Delhi via Hyderabad, .
• Comes under south central railways. Gudivada acts as junction to Machilipatnam. Frequent trains from Vijayawada, Kakinada, Narsapur, Machilipatnam .
• Trains to Hyderabad,visakhapatnam,Howrah,Bhubaneswar,Mumbai,Tirupati,Chennai and bangalore
• Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation has Gudivada Depot (GDV). Gudivada has frequent bus service from Vijayawada, Eluru, Machilipatnam, and Nuzvid.

Educational institutions

Gudivada town is a famous educational centre in the region with many primary schools, high schools, junior colleges, degree colleges, arts and science colleges, engineering college, industrial training centre, polytechnic college, homeopathy medical college. Gudivada comes under region of Acharya Nagarjuna University, Andhra University and Jawharlal Nehru technological university (for engineering college).

Among the notable educational institutions in Gudivada are:

• NARAYANA TECHNO & E-TECHNO SCHOOL (Twinkle Debora)
• Akshara Concept School
• Anil Commerce College (Arts & Commerce College; Junior and Degree Colleges)
• NeelKamal Public School
• ANR College (arts, science, degree, post graduation)
• Dr. Mudunuru Gururaju Government Homeopathic Medical College
• K.T.R Women's College
• ANRPL Arts and science college
• VKR & VNB Polytechnic
• A.A.N.M. & V.V.R.S.R Polytechnic College (Gudlavalleru)
• Gudlavalleru Engineering College(Gudlavalleru)
• Gudivada Engineering College
• District Institute of Education & Training (DIET) or Teacher Training Centre(TTC)(Angaluru)
• Vidyalaya Junior College
• Surya Junior College
• Sree Vidya Junior College
• A G K M High School
• S P S High School
• Gandhi Municipal High School(Old Town)
• Nalanda Municipal High School
• MODEL PUBLIC SCHOOL.......(added by kjb)
• Montessori English and Telugu medium School
• Viswa Bharathi English Medium High School
• Gowtham Concept School
• Little Flower Creative School
• Vidyavikas Public School
• Sai Ushodaya Public School
• Raghavendra public school
• Sri Vasavi English Medium High School
• Vikas Rainbow School
• S G R K High School (Town High School)
• Siddhartha Convent and Tutorials
• S G V S G M High School (Bethavolu)).............BY BAJI
• SRI SURYA TUTORIALS (Bethavolu)
• B S N College of Commerce(Gowrisankarapuram)

Dr K K R's Gowtham Concept School

Medical facilities

Gudivada has lots of hospitals with wide range of specialties and facilities.

Some of the famous hospitals are :-

• Dr. P. Siva Rama Krishna prajavaidhyasala
• Dr.Somuri Venkat Rao prajavaidhyasala
• Dr. K.V.A. Padmanabham Homeopathy Hospital
• Government General Hospital
• American Hospital
• VRM People's Health Centre [Geetha Hospitals]
• Srirama Nursing Home
• Srikanth Nursing Home
• Vishnu Orthopedic Hospital
• Pinnananeni Children's Hospital
• VENKATESWARA NURSING HOME
• Renuka Nursing Home & Poly Clinic
• Manoj Surgical Hospital, Mudinepalli
• Maganti Foundations
• Annapurna Multi Speciality Hospital
• Karuna Nursing Home
• ADITYA CHILDRENS HOSPITAL
• VIJAYA ORTHOPEDIC CENTRE
• CTS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL (Kalvapudi)

Economy

Being a mandal headquarters. Gudivada is a financial centre. Most of the income is generated from agriculture and fishing. Gudivada has got its significance in the agricultural field way back in 1946 when the Pioneer industry in manufacturing of all sorts of agricultural implements was founded by Late Sri. Kurumaddali Venkata Chalapati Rao popularly known as Pantulu gari shed was established. Gudivada being in heart of Krishna district is great place for real estate business. Trade mostly depends on agricultural yields in that season from the nearby regions. However, jewellery and gold business and cinema seems to have a special place.

Major businesses around this place are: agricultural industries, milk, rice mills, transportation/cargo, fisheries, education, medical, cinema, jewellery, finance, textile, vegetables etc.

Most of the nationalised banks have their branch(s) some of them have ATM and locker Facilities. Following are list of some branches available in Gudivada:

1. Gudivada Cooperative Urban Bank
2. Sapthagiri Grameena Bank
3. Karur Vysya Bank with ATM Facility
4. Vijaya Bank
5. Bank of Baroda with ATM Facility
6. Indian Overseas Bank with ATM Facility
7. Canara Bank
8. Andhra Bank with ATM Facility
9. State Bank of Hyderabad with ATM Facility
10. State Bank of India with ATM Facility
11. City Union Bank with ATM Facility
12. Axis Bank with ATM Facility
13. ICICI Bank with ATM Facility
14. Union Bank of India with ATM Facility
15. Syndicate Bank with ATM facility
16. Central Bank of India
17. indian bank

HDFC bank is going to open its branch soon with ATM facility in Sarada Towers,near RK Complex.

Private commercial banks like HSBC, ABN AMRO do not have their branches yet. Stock trading in this region is done mainly with help of stock brokers. Chit fund companies are mostly privately owned; however, companies like Sriram Chits and Margadarsi have their branches.

Small details

Mandal Name	Gudivada
Mandal Code	42
Railway Station, Bus depot Code	GDV

Localities inside Gudivada town (urban) include

• Municipal Quarters
• Rajendra Nagar
• Loya vari Street
• Nagavarappadu
• Bayyavari Veedhi
• Varala Street
• CSI Church center
• Kakarla Veedhi (Bosubomma center)
• Dronadula Veedhi
• Peddayerukapadu
• Adapa vari veedhi
• Pedda Kalava
• Auto Nagar
• Koti Bomma Center
• Satyanarayana puram
• Bus Stand
• Over Bridge
• Municipal Buildings
• Post Office
• Devarakonda vaari veedhi
• Railway station
• BATHAVOLU....
• KARMIKA NAGAR(Chenchupet,Sai nagar,Dhaniyalapet & Railpet )....BY BAJI
• Masid Center
• Market center
• Stadium
• Nehru Chowk
• Gowri sankar puram
• Patimeeda
• Neelamahal center
• Montessori
• Eluru Road
• Teachers Colony
• Sriram Puram
• Bipass Road
• Janardhana puram
• Bank colony
• RTC colony
• Mubarak Center
• Nizampet
• Bantumilli Road Center
• Kotibomma Center
• GoodmanPet
• Shadikhana Center
• NTR Colony
• Pedda Veedhi
• Mandapadu
• Ganganamma street
• Jain temple street
• CHOWDARY PET

External links

• Jain Temple in Gudivada
• Gudivada Tirth
• Angaluru Village in Gudivada Mandal
• The First Gudivada Online Information Portal
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