Jaggayyapeta
Jaggayyapeta
Jaggayyapet | |
|---|---|
town | |
| Government | |
| • Municipal Chairman | Raja Gopalam Sreeram (Tataiah) |
| Population (2001) | |
| • Total | 55,817 |
Jaggayyapeta is an ancient town and now a municipality in Krishna district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Its original name, Bethavolu, was changed to Jaggayyapeta by Raja Vasireddy Venkatadri Nayudu in memory of his father, Jagga Nayudu. Bethavolu was very famous for its ancient Buddhist stupa built during the Satavahana period.
Demographics
As of the 2001 India census,Template:GR Jaggayyapeta has a population of 39,817, with a male-female split of 51%-49%. Jaggayyapeta has an average literacy rate of 67%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 73%, and female literacy is 60%. 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Government and Religion
Jaggayypeta is an assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh with 74 villages and 159,070 registered voters.
List of Elected Members:[1]
- 1978 - Bodduluru Rama Rao, Indian National Congress.
- 1983 - Akkinemi Lokeswara Rao, Telugu Desam Party
- 1985, 1989 and 1994 - Nettem Raghuram, Telugu Desam Party.
- 1999 and 2004 - Samineni Udayabhanu, Indian National Congress.
Monuments & Antiquities
During the excavations in 1818, a few carved slabs from one of the brick mounds revealed the existence of a group of ancient stupas. After excavation, the stupa was found to be 9 meters in diameter and was decorated with slabs of the same material used in Amaravati. Inside the casing the stupa is made completely out of bricks and earth. About a kilometer from the town is a hill known as Dhanabodu or Hill of wealth on which once stood a great Stupa or Mahachaitya. Around the hillock are traces of monastic buildings.
A Mahachaitya filled with layers of rubble & gravel two feet thick . The slabs surrounding the base of the stupa were plain very few of them having any carving except a small pilaster up the edge. Some of the sculptures on the pilasters closely resemble in style of Bharhut sculptures. The capitals are heavy and roughly bell-shaped and show addorsed double-winged animals like that at Patalkhora. Some of the slabs were inscibed in characters of Mauryan type ascribable to the beginning of the 2nd century BC.
Features
There are approximately 150 temples in the town. It has one government college (S.G.S college) and four well-known schools:Chegu vidyalayam, Nagarjuna Public School, Little Angels Public School and Jawahar D A V Public School.It has well established privite colleges mainly: J.R.College and S.A.V & N.V.J.R college.
Industry
Jaggayyapeta is now famous for its cement industries, Musical Instruments and gold businesses - there are around ten cement industrial sites near the town. The delayed Pulichintala Project is around 21 km from the centre of Jaggayyapeta.
Villages in Jaggayyapeta Mandal
The following is the list of villages in this Mandal. [2]
- Annavaram
- Anumanchipalle
- Balusupadu
- Bandipalem
- Buchavaram
- Budawada
- Chillakallu
- Gandrai
- Garikapadu
- Gowravaram
- Jaggayyapeta
- Jayanthipuram
- Kowthavari agraharam
- Malkapuram
- Mukteswarapuram
- Pochampalle
- Ramachandrunipeta
- Ravikampadu
- Ravirala
- Sher mohammadpeta
- Thakkellapadu
- Tirumalagiri
- Torraguntapalem
- Tripuravaram
- Vedadri
See also
References
- ^ Election Commission of India.A.P.Assembly results.1978-2004
- ^ "Villages in Jaggayyapeta Mandal". Retrieved 2007-02-15.