Thumrukota

History

Tumrukota is an ancient and historic village, the largest in the Rentachintala mandal in the Guntur District. Initially named Timmarusu Kota, after the poet Timmarusu, one of the AsthaDiggajaalu(eight poets) under Srikrishna Devaraayalu, the name changed over time to Tummercode, then Tummurukota, before finally being called Tumrukota.

Politics

This village always comes into the picture especially when elections takes place. This comes under Macherla constituency for MLA poll and comes under Narasaraopeta for MP poll. Around 4,000 voters are there in this village. This village became base station for TDP (Telugudesam Party founded in 1982 by NTR) from its inception. Konakanchi Narayana is the president of the village since 2007.

MLAs:
- Pinnelli Lakshma Reddy (Since 2004) (Congress)
- Julakanti Durgamba (1999 - 2004) (TDP)
- Kurri Punnareddy (1994 - 1999) (TDP)

Profession

Agriculture is the profession of every family almost. As it is residing on the bank of Krishna river, almost all the fields are covered with irrigation facility. Paddy, Cotton and Chilli are the leading crops. And most of the lives are into part of milk business by selling milk in milk centers. Daily around 30 cans (every can has capacity around 50Lts) of milk is being transported to differnt dairies i.e.Sangam dairy etc. It is very pleasant to see the entire village in green in spring season.

Transportation

It is well connected to Macherla which is just about 20km away (9km from another route). There is APSRTC bus service from Macherla to this village for every hour from morning 5:45AM to 10:15PM.
There are two routes from Macherla as follows:
1) Via Kambhampadu, PaluvaiGate, PaluvaiJunction and Paluvai. APSRTC buses uses this route.
2) Via JammalaMadaka

Bus Route from Guntur:
1) There is bus service from Guntur to Macherla for every 15 minutes once.catch this service and get down at Paluvai Junction. It will take 3 hours time generally (around 115 km).
2) From Paluvai Junction to Tumrukota is, there will be many autos all the times or You can wait for bus which will come from Macherla. (just 7 kilometers from here, usually 15 mins time it ll take)

Bus Route from Hyderabad:
1) Catch the any bus which goes via Macherla. (around 170 km, usually it takes 4 hours time)
2) From Macherla, there is bus facility to this village. (see the above para for details)

The RajeevGandhi international Airport, Hyderabad is just about 190km away from the village if you want to fly.

Things you must notice

It is known for temples where you find all the religious temples.
- Raamalayam, Sivaalayam, Venugopalaswamy Temple, Hanuman Temple, Veerabrahmendra swamy temple, Mutyalamma Temples, Ancient popular Mosque(which is built in older centuries), Saisha Temple and Christ Church.
- Krishna River
- Forest after the Village
- NTR statue
- Naaparaayi(one kind of stone) Qwarries
- Panchayat office
- Andhra Bank (Popular bank in AndhraPradesh state)
- Post Office