Huzurnagar

Huzurnagar
Coordinates
Country	India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District(s)	Nalgonda
Time zone	IST (UTC+05:30)

Huzurnagar is a town and taluka in Nalgonda district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India.

Name

The town was originally named Ponucherla, in honor of the goddess Pochamma, but the name was changed to Huzurnagar when it was ruled by Huzur^{[citation needed]}. This town played an important role in the administration of Nizam, prior to Independence of India.

Geogrphy

Nearby villages include Burugadda, Madhavarayanigudem, Govinda Puram, Vepala Singaram, Raghunathapalem, SrinivasapuramLakkavaram, Keethavarigudem], kothagudem, goplapuram, lingagiri, sarvaram, matampalli, mattapalli, velidhanda.

Demographics

Religion

Temples in the town include Ramalayam,Mutyalamma, Durga Devi,Shirdi Sai Baba & Sri Abhayanjaneya swami. The Mutyalamma festival is held in the town annually. There is a temple nearby in the town of Gutta near the muktyala branch canal, at which a festival in honor of the Shivaratri idol of Lord Rama .sri venugopala swami devastanam located at Boorugadda village, Sri goda padmavathi kalyana venkateshwara swami temple is a famous temple in huzurnagar located on mattapally bipas road .

Huzurnagar has Sitaramachandra Swami temple which is 900 years old, one of the oldest temples in the district. Shivalayam is very powerful and worshiped by many devotees during festivals. The Saibaba temple is in the town center, as is an ancient temple dedicated to Rama.

Nearby Huzurnagar there is a pilgrimage centre, Mattapalli, which is popular among the neighbouring villages and towns. Its legend dates back to 13th century BC. Lord Narasimha Swamy is worshipped here and considered the most Powerful god. This temple is located on the banks of a well known South Indian River, River Krishna.

Saiprabath Nagar, named after SaiBaba Temple, is located in the center of Huzurnagar town, which was formerly supposed to be the outskirts of the town, and which is surrounded by a hospital and educational institutions. Recently Three more temples are constructed Lord Vinayaka, Lord Venkateshwara & Chadhuvula thalli Saraswathi.

In Huzurnagar there are five masjids. one of the main masjid is located at pottisriramulu centre. and remaining four are located at sithramnagar, lakhavram road, dhadanla cheruv, opp new bus stand.

Sarvaram is one of the safest villages in Nalgonda district, it has four ways road from the all the areas, samula kalavathi venkat reddy is the present sarpanch in the village, they have done lot of works in village, only one pending work is there that is a bridge in between sarvaram & lingagiri, so we kindly ask government to construct that bridge.

Education

Huzurnagar town has two Zilla Parishad High Schools, one government high school and one government junior colleges; there are three private colleges named Priyadarshini College, Chaitanya College and New generation Junior College and two degree colleges Priyadarshini Degree College and Chaitanya Degree College. An engineering college was established in 2004, called MITS (Madira Institute of Technology).

There are now multiple techno schools, including krishnaveni Talent school, Teja Talent school.

The oldest schools, serving many students are Vignan High School, Chaitanya bharti school, Chaitanya Grammar school, the huzurnagar public school and others.Now L I C OF INDIA Office open from 23/9/2009 at MLG X ROAD.

Health

There is one Government Health Center which is one of the largest health centers in the district.many private hospitals are there in huzurnagar.but for the major operations people of huzurnagar depend on kodad khammam and vijayawada

Economy

The town has many rice mills, and is the second largest producer of par-boiled rice in Andhra Pradesh, after Mirayalaguda.

Huzurnagar has two nationalised banks, Andhra Bank and State Bank of Hyderabad and a co-operative central bank and a Grameena Bank. The town has seven petrol stations, one of the oldest of which is Pendyala Kotilingam Brothers, established in 1976

Huzurnagar has many cement factories such as Priya Cements, Sagar Cements, Nagarjuna Cements, Anjani Cements, Maha Cements and Kamakshi Cements etc.

The Real estate market in huzurnagar is growing very fast in recent times.

Transport

Huzurnagar has bus services but no rail link. The nearest railway station being 35 km away, at Miryalguda. Vijayawada, another major city, is 117 km away from Huzurngar. Nearest cities include Miryalaguda, Kodad, Jaggaiahpet, Khammam.

Politics

Huzurnagar was an assembly constituency before 1977. In 1977, it lost its status of assembly constituency, but after 20 years it has again become a separate assembly constituency with the delimitation in 2009. Current MLA is captain N. Uttam Kumar Reddy.