Sunki

For the citrus fruit, see Sunki (fruit).

Sunki Sunki Agraharam
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Coordinates
Country	India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District(s)	Partvatipuram
Nearest city	Parvatipuram
Time zone	IST (UTC+05:30)

Sunki also known as Sunki Agraharam is a home village of the Viswanadha dynasty that are from Kutsasa Gotra (Clan). It is located in Parvatipuram district of Andhra Pradesh state, India.. The dissidents of Sunki have since migrated to the various parts of the country and the worlld and are now settled as successful Entrepreneurs, Academicians, Engineers, Doctors etc. The Viswanadaha Institute of Technology And Management (VITAM) at Visakhapatnam, AP is founded by one such Sunki dissident.

It is located at the border between Andhra Pradesh and Orissa on the National Highway 5.

While the above description may be a legend, the more authentic part about SUNKI located in the district of Koraput, Orissa, dates back to the British era. The road that connects Jeypore with Vizianagaram passes through the ghat roads of eastern ghat and it is here that one descends from Pottangi at 1000 Mtr above sea level to Pachpanta(Salur) which may be at the Sea level. When the road was made for all weather during the British Raj, a colonel named Shankey was incharge of the construction who took much pains to oversee the carving out of the road through steep hills and malaria prone valley. During those days he had set up his camp at a location now known as Shunki. Soon the spot was used by passers by to stop for the night and then pass on to Salur another Ghat in the vicinity. When colonel Shankey died from malaria, the place was named Shankey in his memory and gradually it became Sunki.

References

http://www.unicef.org/india/media_970.htm