Palasa-Kasibugga
| పలాస – కాశిబుగ్గ Palasa – Kasibugga |
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 పలాస – కాశిబుగ్గ
Palasa – Kasibugga Palasa – Kasibugga in Andhra Pradesh and India |
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| Coordinates | 18°28′N 84°15′E / 18.46°N 84.25°ECoordinates: 18°28′N 84°15′E / 18.46°N 84.25°E |
| Country | India |
| State | Andhra Pradesh |
| District(s) | Srikakulam |
| Population | 70,000 (2001[update]) |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+05:30) |
| Area |
• 38 metres (125 ft) |
Palasa and Kasibugga (Telugu: పలాస – కాశిబుగ్గ) are twin towns. And Palasa is a Mandal in Srikakulam district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India.[1]
It is located on the National Highway 5 between Srikakulam and Berhampur.
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[edit] Geography
Palasa is located at 18.46N 84.25E.[2] It has an average elevation of 38 meters (127 feet).
[edit] Features
- Palasa-Kasibugga is the center of cashew industries in the Srikakulam district. There are around 200 cashew processing industries around Palasa town, the highest amongst the five north east coastal districts (together contains only 36 units). These twin towns are the largest cashew producing towns of Andhra Pradesh and are among the largest processing centres in India. Cashew industry is providing direct and indirect employment to about 15,000 people in the surrounding areas.[3]
- The Community Health Centre, Andhra Pradesh Vaidya Vidhana Parishad is located here. It has bed strength of 50 in-patients.[4]
- The railway station is common for both the towns. Even though the station is named as "Palasa" it is located in Kasibugga. This station is one of the railway stations with highest revenue in Khurda division of East Coast Railway zone.
Palasa is the second largest town in Srikakulam district with a population is 70,000. Palasa has now become an assembly segment also.
Palasa has a good transport fecility from all big cities. Palasa has an average literacy rate of 69% with second place in srikakulam district.There are two post offices each in Palasa and Kasibugga
There are around six to seven film theatres in the town including a first class A/C theatre with dolby dts and other features.
We can find many eminent personalities in here like Dileep Kumar Mamidi (Product of SFS school Kasibugga 2004 batch) who is serving in Indian Armed Forces and fighting for India on behalf of his place, on the other hand dileep kumar mamidi is also a good writer. He wrote two un-published novels "The Dark" and "In The Pursuit Of My Love".
[edit] Schools and colleges
Palasa-Kasibugga has good educational infrastructure for a Tier - 4 city. St. Francis De'sales school is the best english medium school in the town. Other notable schools include Grace Convent School,padmavathi english medium school Little Angels and BET. There is a good Zilla Parishad High School and Rly Mixed High School as well, with a big ground. Recently schools like Sri Chaitanya Techno School etc., have also entered.
There are two engineering colleges in the town and lot of other degree colleges, both government and private. These form the hub for studies for all the villages surrounding the town.SBSYM degree college, Narayanadora college, Prajna college, Pratiba college, Saisirisha college, Shiridi sai college, Govt.college, Prajna Institute Of Technology And Managemant and Shiva Rama Krishna College of Engineering & Technology are some of the colleges in Palasa.
One of oldest degree college in Kasibugga-Palasa is SBSYM ARTS & SCIENCE degree college.
[edit] Assembly constituency
Palasa is an assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Palasa, Mandasa and Vajrapu Kotturu mandals comes under this jurisdiction.
[edit] Villages and Panchayats
There are 19 village panchayats in Palasa Mandal.[5]
- Allukola (village and panchayat)
- Amalakhudia (village and panchayat)
- Bantu Kotturu (village and panchayat)
- Boddapadu (village and panchayat)
- Brahmana Tharla (village and panchayat)
- Laxmi Puram (village )
- chinabadam (village and municipality) with 4000 population
- vajrapukotturu (village and panchayat)
- Chinanchala (village and panchayat)
- Garudugandi (village and panchayat)
- Grudasupuram (village and panchayat)
*Kedaripuram (village and panchayat)
- Laxmipuram (village and panchayat)
- sasanam ramarao.b (village and panchayat)
- Lotturu (village and panchayat)
- Mamidimettu (village and panchayat)
- Neelavathi (village and panchayat)
- Peda Makanapalli (village and panchayat)
- Pedanchala (village and panchayat)
- Rentikota (village and panchayat)
- Tekkalipatnam (village and panchayat)
- Tharlakota (village and panchayat)
- Garuda Bhadra(Village and Panchayat)
- Metturu (village and Panchayithi) Damodar
- Vonkuluru (village and Panchayithi) Rama Rao Jogulu Guntu lives in Vonkuluru,Shivalayam street.
- Ankapalli (village and Panchayithi)
Bapu Nagar (village and Panchayithi)
[edit] References
- ^ "Mandals in Srikakulam district". Panchayat Informatics Division. http://panchayat.gov.in/adminreps/viewpansumR.asp?selstate=0201000000&ptype=B&button1=Submit. Retrieved 2007-03-05.[dead link]
- ^ Falling Rain Genomics.Palasa
- ^ APEDA blueprint to improve cashew production
- ^ APVVP.Hospitals
- ^ Details of Andhra Pradesh till Village Panchayat Tier
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