Vuyyuru
Vuyyuru is a town and Mandal headquarters in Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is located on the NH 9 between Vijayawada and Machilipatnam about 25 km from Vijayawada and 39 km from Machilipatnam.
[edit] Population
The population of Vuyyuru Mandal is 73,767[1] and that of town around 41,000 (muncipal area
[edit] Agriculture
Vuyyuru's economy is based on agriculture, mainly majority is paddy, and sugar cane. The land is very fertile, and irrigation canals which draw water from the Krishna river criss-cross the area. Drinking water is not scarce. A small dam and bridge was constructed during the British period on the main canal in the town. This bridge served the locals for more than a century, although there is a new bridge now.
[edit] Industries
Prior to the construction of the KCP sugar factory in 1941, irrigation facilities were limited. KCP has a processing capacity 8500 TCD, and is one of the largest sugar factories in the country and also one among the most modern. KCP has a cogeneration plant which produces 15 MW of power per day.
KCP and its group of industries were founded by Sri Velagapudi Rama Krishna. KIC, a subsidiary of KCP, produces CO2 (Soda gas). Farmers, who grow sugar-cane, bring the harvest to this factory during the season. The season usually starts in the month of October and ends in April. KCP Sugar factory was the first to start production of ethanol in south India.
[edit] Famous personalities
There are several famous personalities from Vuyyuru
- Late Vangaveeti Mohana Ranga Rao - A MLA for Vijayawada East Assembly Segment in 1983 .VMRanga was an Indian National Congress politician and leader in India. He Fight against the NTR government for house lands to poor people. When Vangaveeti Radha was killed by Communists Vangaveeti Ranga took over the charge of his brother's legacy.He became more popular demigod in his own community Kapus.After his murder, so many darkest and sad incidents happened in Andhra Pradesh.In the history of Andhra Pradesh never happened before or after there was a loss of 350 crores + and it so happened that nearly after 21 days karfu after his death people were not out of their houses.
- Late Kakani Venkata Ratnam - A minister in the cabinets of Kasu Brahmananda Reddy and P.V.Narasimha Rao. Leader of "Jai Andhra" Movement. Called as Veera Kakani and Vukku Kakani.
- Vadde Sobhanadreeswara Rao - A minister in the cabinets of NTR and Chandrababu Naidu. A prominent leader in "Jai Andhra" movement. Served as Panchayat president, MLA and MP.
- Late Sridhar Surapaneni - An old Telugu movie hero. "Mutyala Muggu" fame was born and brought up in neighbouring "Kummamuru" village.
- Chandra Mohan - An actor, character artist in Telugu movie industry was from neighbouring Pamidimukkala mandalam.
- CH.V.R.N.Murali Krishna - One of the "Chavali Brothers" duo. Famous for their scripting talents in Telugu movie industry. He is born and brought up in a neighbouring village Saipuram.
- Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao - One among the "Paruchuri Brothers" Duo. Famous for their scripting talents in Telugu movie industry. He is born and brought up in a neighbouring village called "Meduru".
- Paruchuri Gopala Krishna - One among the "Paruchuri Brothers" Duo. Famous for their scripting talents in the Telugu movie industry. He is born and brought up in a neighbouring village called "Meduru". He served as Telugu Basha Adhikaara pratinidi (Telugu Language Official Representative)
- Yalamanchili Venkata Babu Rajendra Prasad - Member of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council. Deputy Floor Leader in A.P.Legislative Council.Representing Krishna Local Bodies - Founder of Andhra Pradesh Sarpanch's Association - An organisation of its kind unique in Independent India - Known for champion of movements for Local Governments in Andhra Pradesh (Third Governments i.e.,after Central and State Governments all local bodies) - served as Sarpanch, MPTC, ZPTC,and MLC.These all are created of his own, to make himself as a prominent leader and to create himself as a great leader in state, this is to attract state leaders,to improve his real estate and some businesses in Hyderabad and in other places.And he also made some underground work to defeat Late sri Chalasani Venkateswara Rao[pandu],who is upcoming over him,from his own party.And he is still miantaining groups in party to stop upcoming of Pandu's son-in-law.
Dandamudi Rajagopal (b: 16 October 1916 - d: 6 August 1981) was renowned sports person of India.[1]
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He was born in Gandigunta village in Krishna district in a family of farmers. Impressed by the performance of Kodi Rammurthy Naidu, he took up the line of Weight Lifting. He was trained by Sistla Somayajulu in Weight lifting for sometime.Later He traveled with Kolli Rangadasu and gave many performances in different Indian states.He has acted in some films. The most notable performance was in Nartanasala (1963), wherein he portrayed the role of Bheema.[3] He also acted in Bheemanjaneya Yudham,Veera abhimanyu
[edit] Education
Vuyyuru hosts many educational institutions.
[edit] Colleges
Siddartha A.G & S.G.S College of Arts and Science is a college which offers intermediate, degree and post-graduation courses. It's a government college affiliated to Krishna University. Sri Srinivasa College managed by Paruchuri srinivas Rao is a private college which offers Intermediate and Degree courses. Narayana Institutions has started a College for Intermediate & Sai Krishna college also there for intermediate in collaboration with flora public school's management.
[edit] Schools
There are several schools in Vuyyuru. VRKM school (supported partly by KCP Sugar factory)is very famous for its standards till recent years,which produced many engineers and doctors who are serving in India and abroad.others are Vuyyuru Public School, Gemini English Medium School, Ravindra Bharathi School, Sree Chaitanya Techo School, Little Flower School, Sree Srinivasa Aksharalayam, Sri Viswasanthi English Medium School, Flora E.M High School, , St. Lucas High School, Vivekavardhini public school, Shantiniketan Public School are some of the schools that are present which provide excellent education facilities. These schools offer day and residential studies from Nursery to 10th standard. Flora Public School has taken one step further and in collaboration with state-wide educational institution "Narayana Colleges" has set up a branch of Narayana College in Vuyyuru.[2]
There are 3 government schools located in Vuyyuru; Zilla Praja Parishad School, CBM Girls' School (supported partly by Baptist missionaries) Also there is one ladies hostel by A.P. state government for socially backward children, which is located behind bus bepot. Vikram industrial training institute located in vuyyuru.it is in technical education. above 100 villages below economic level studeted were studied in this institute and gain employment in several private and public sector limited industries. last 6 years the institute have been in 100% result. The famous technical educated person sri. Adiraju sree raghuram has worked as a Training Officer and educate the trainees in personal responsibilities.
[edit] Health
The Government general hospital is located in Katuru Road. There are two charity-funded hospitals, the CBM Bethel Hospital (Canadian Baptist Mission) hospital, which was established during British rule which provides eye related treatment (like cataract) and general treatment for a nominal amount, and the Rotary eye hospital,[3] funded by KCP sugar factory and local residents. It is located 2 kilometres away from Vuyyuru. They provide treatment at nominal rates.
There are several private hospitals with basic amenities. Right now Vuyyuru is the medical centre for the neighbouring villages and also towns in Penamaluru Mandal.
[edit] Places of worship
Shivalayam in heart of Vuyyuru is built around 13th Century by the Nuzveedu zamindars who are sub-ordinates to Kakateya kingdom.
An old mosque of nearly 300 years old is located on Machilipatnam - Pune NH 9 in the heart of the town. Recently the mosque was renovated. There are many churches in Vuyyuru including Hebron church,Hosanna church and many more churches.There is also a youth ministry named "THE WAY",which is lead by Bro.M.Rajesh.
A famous village deity fondly called "Veeramma" temple is located in Vuyyuru. The village fair is celebrated during February every year. Its duration is 15 days. A Shiva Temple constructed by Kakatiya's during 13th century is located in the heart of Vuyyuru. A Venkateswara Swamy Temple is located in Mantada. It is a famous temple in its vicinity.
CBM (Canadian Baptist Mission) church was constructed prior to independence.
[edit] Financial Institutions & Business Establishments
Fully computerised branches of Andhra Bank (with ATM), State Bank of India (with ATM), Indian Bank (with ATM), State Bank of Hyderabad(with ATM). And Recently, Union Bank of India (with ATM), Syndicate Bank, Bank of India, Karur Vysya Bank have opened their branchs in vuyyuru Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) and Reliance Life Insurance are having branches in Vuyyuru. There are several private financial institutions like Shri Ram Chits,Ghandi co-operative bank and The Krishna Dist Co-Operative bank.
There are 7 movie theatres in Vuyyuru, Sai Mahal, Lakshmi Talkies, Deepak Mahal, Shanthi Theatre, Srinivasa Theatre & Thandava Lakshmi. There are 4 lodges with hotel facility. There are 6 function halls in Vuyyuru, out of which 4 are constructed and maintained by KCP sugar factory. Sudheer timber depot well known for its quality timber is located in Yakamuru, a neighbouring village of Vuyyuru. With the advent of IT and booming markets, the price of land has risen exorbitantly in Vuyyuru and its surrounding areas. A large section of people from this region are settled in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai and US working in IT sector.
A bypass road was constructed in 1987 to divert traffic from Vuyyuru roads. This bypass connects Machilipatnam with the Hyderabad National Highway 9. All heavy vehicles travel over this road to ease traffic through town. Land alongside this road are sold at very high prices. This bypass road was neglected by the government until 2001. After 2001, AP state government built some government offices along this road like police station, village Panchayat offices, Mandal register office & RTA office.
[edit] Politics
Previously, Vuyyuru was an assembly constituency . But after the reorganization, it is now a part of the Penamaluru assembly constituency. Now, Mr. Kolusu Parthasarathy of Congress party is the MLA. He is also the minister for Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development and Fisheries portfolio.The town has been upgraded to municipality in the last week of December 2011 after long delay of 25 to 30 years due to greedy politicians . The town attained the status to be muncipality in mid 1980's when population was 25,000 but has been made muncipality when population crossed 40,000.
[edit] Connectivity
Vuyyuru is located on National Highway 9 which connects Machilipatnam and Hyderabad. There is no train or air service to Vuyyuru directly. The nearest railway station is Vijayawada railway station, which is 26 km away. The nearest airport is Gannavaram Airport, which is 25 km away.
The government-owned bus service APSRTC established a bus stand and bus depot in 1987. The chief minister of the state N. T. Rama Rao was laid the foundation stone for the project in 1987. The bus depot closed in 2007, as the route was losing money. Recently i.e. in March 2010 the Depot was reopened and started its operations operating new JNNURM buses between Vijayawada and Vuyyuru and other services also started.
[edit] Canals and Natural Resources
A canal (fondly called pulleru)[4] flows throw the town of Vuyyuru. First bridge was constructed on this canal around 1890. Until 1988 small boats used to ply in some regions to transport people across. Currently there are close to 6 bridges on this canal. This canal is drawn from Krishna river. Most of the irrigation canals are drawn from this. Even the water requirement of KCP Sugar Factory is too met with this. Canal suits as a very good location for fishermen.
Thotlavalluru and few other villages are located on the banks of River Krishna, during the summer season Sand digging is the prime revenue for the government. All through April and May sand digging contracts will be sold by the government under the panchayat limits.
[edit] Others
KCP Sugar Factory has tied up with Rotary Club to extend its support to welfare of the citizens in and around the industry belt. Also it has established Cane Development Committee for performing R&D on improving the sugar cane crop.
[edit] Latest improvements
The sugar factory and the improved economy have caused rapid increase in the living standards of the people in the town. There are a few high rise residential apartment complexes.
[edit] Villages in Vuyyuru Mandal
The following is the list of villages.[5] 1. Akunuru 2. Bollapadu 3. China Ogirala 4. Chalivendrapalem 5. Gurajada 6. Gandigunta 7. Jabarlapudi 8. Kadavakollu 9. Kalavapamula 10. Katuru 11. Kanumru 12. Madunapuram 13. Gopuvanipalem 14. Mudunuru 15. Mullapudi 16. Peda Ogirala 17. Ramachandrapuram 18. Saipuram 19. Tadanki 20. thadanki 21. Vuyyuru 22. Yalamarru 23. Veera valli
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- http://wikimapia.org/country/India/Andhra_Pradesh/Vuyyuru
- http://www.kcp.co.in/engineering/html/aboutkcp.htm
- http://www.kcp.co.in
- http://www.kcpsugar.com/
- http://rotaryeyecarevyr.org/
- http://www.floraschool.com/
- http://www.sriviswasanthischools.com
- http://srisrinivasadegreecollege.com/default.html
- http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IN/2/Vuyyuru.html
- http://rmiindia.com
- http://pingap.com/digitallyyours/vuyyuru.htm (watch vuyyuru town photos)
