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Krishna District
Krishna district is district in the coastal Andhra Region in Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, with Machilipatnam as its administrative headquarters. It is the coastal district of Andhra Pradesh. Machilipatnam is the most populated city in the district. It is surrounded on the east by Bay of Bengal, west by Guntur and north by Eluru and NTR districts and south again by Bay of Bengal. In 2022 Krishna district was divided into Krishna and NTR districts. Etymology Krishna district, with its district headquarters at Machilipatnam was formerly called Machilipatnam district. Later it was renamed as Krishna district, by adding certain Taluks of the abolished Guntur District in 1859 with Machilipatnam with its head. It was named after the Krishna River, the third longest river in India. The river flows through the state of Andhra Pradesh before it empties itself into Bay of Bengal, near Hamsaladevi village of Krishna district. History This history of this region dates ...
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List Of Districts Of Andhra Pradesh
The States and union territories of India, state of Andhra Pradesh has 26 Districts of India, districts spread across three regions — Uttarandhra, Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema. Uttarandhra consists of Srikakulam district, Srikakulam, Vizianagaram district, Vizianagaram, Parvathipuram Manyam district, Parvathipuram Manyam, Alluri Sitarama Raju district, Alluri Sitharama Raju, Visakhapatnam district, Visakhapatnam and Anakapalli district, Anakapalli districts. Coastal Andhra comprises Kakinada district, Kakinada, Konaseema district, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Konaseema, East Godavari district, East Godavari, West Godavari district, West Godavari, Eluru district, Eluru, Krishna district, Krishna, NTR district, NTR, Guntur district, Guntur, Palnadu district, Palnadu, Bapatla district, Bapatla, Prakasam district, Prakasam and Nellore district, SPSR Nellore districts. Rayalaseema consists of Kurnool district, Kurnool, Nandyal district, Nandyal, Anantapur district, Anantapur, Sri Sathya Sai ...
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Vallabhaneni Balasouri
Vallabhaneni Balasouri (born 18 September 1968) is an Indian politician from the YSR Congress Party. He is the current Member of Parliament (MP) in the 17th Lok Sabha representing Machilipatnam parliamentary constituency. He also served as the Member of Parliament in the 14th Lok Sabha from Tenali constituency. Political career Balasouri contested and won 2004 Lok Sabha elections as a Congress candidate from Tenali constituency with 54.47% of votes polled and a 78,556 majority over the incumbent Telugu Desam Party's Ummareddy Venkateswarlu. He served as the MP until the constituency was abolished in 2008 and merged into Guntur constituency. He later contested and won 2019 Lok Sabha elections as a YSR Congress Party candidate from Machilipatnam constituency with 46.02% of votes polled and a 60,141 majority over the incumbent Telugu Desam Party's Konakalla Narayana Rao. Filmography * Vallabhaneni produced the 2004 film '' Letha Manasulu'', directed by S. V. Krishna Reddy ...
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NTR District
NTR district is a district in coastal Andhra Region in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The administrative headquarters is located at Vijayawada. The district is named after former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh N. T. Rama Rao. History Named after former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh N. T. Rama Rao, NTR district was proposed on 26 January 2022 and became one of the twenty-six districts in the state after the gazette notification was issued by the Government of Andhra Pradesh on 3 April 2022. The gazette notification came into force on 4 April 2022. The district was carved out of Krishna district, and consists of the existing Vijayawada revenue division along with Nandigama and Tiruvuru revenue divisions, which were formed along with the district. Geography NTR district is bordered with Krishna district and Eluru districts on the East, Palnadu district and Guntur districts on the South, Suryapet district of Telangana state on the West and Khammam district of Tela ...
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Eluru District
Eluru district is a district in coastal Andhra Region in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. With Eluru as its administrative headquarters, it was proposed on 26 January 2022 to become one of the resultant twenty six districts in the state once a final notification is issued by the government of Andhra Pradesh. It is formed from Eluru revenue division and Jangareddygudem revenue division from West Godavari district and Nuzvid revenue division from Krishna district. History Eluru District history is shared common history with West Godavari district, The Eastern Chalukyas ruled coastal Andhra from 700 to 1200, with Vengi, near Pedavegi village, as their capital. Historical pieces of evidence are found at the villages, Pedavegi and Guntupalli (Jilakarragudem). Eluru then became a part of the Kalinga Empire until 1471. Later it fell into the hands of the Gajapati Empire. In 1515, Krishnadevaraya captured it. After the fall of the Vijayanagara Empire, it was taken by the ...
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Guntur District
Guntur district is one of the twenty six districts in the Coastal Andhra region of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The administrative seat of the district is located at Guntur, the largest city of the district in terms of area and with a population of 670,073. It has a coastline of approximately on the right bank of Krishna River, that separates it from Krishna district and NTR district. It is bounded on the south by Bapatla district and on the west by Palnadu district. It has an area of and with a population of 20,91,075 as per 2011 census of India. The district is often referred to as the ''Land of Chillies''. It is also a major centre for agriculture, education and learning. It exports large quantities of chillies and tobacco. Etymology The district derives its name from its district headquarters, Guntur. There are several opinions on the meaning and origin of the word Guntur. The word owes its origin to words like gundu (a rock), gunta (a pond) and kunta (1/3 o ...
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Bay Of Bengal
The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, bounded on the west and northwest by India, on the north by Bangladesh, and on the east by Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India. Its southern limit is a line between Sangaman Kanda, Sri Lanka, and the north westernmost point of Sumatra, Indonesia. It is the largest water region called a bay in the world. There are countries dependent on the Bay of Bengal in South Asia and Southeast Asia. During the existence of British India, it was named as the Bay of Bengal after the historic Bengal region. At the time, the Port of Kolkata served as the gateway to the Crown rule in India. Cox's Bazar, the longest sea beach in the world and Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest and the natural habitat of the Bengal tiger, are located along the bay. The Bay of Bengal occupies an area of . A number of large rivers flow into the Bay of Bengal: the Ganges– Hooghly, the Padma, the Brahmaputra–Yamuna, the ...
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List Of Cities In Andhra Pradesh
This article is about the list of most populated cities in Andhra Pradesh state of India as per ''2011 Census of India'', conducted by ''The Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner,'' under ''Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India''. Cities statistics As per 2011 Census of India, ''towns with population of 100,000 and above are called Cities''. Visakhapatnam is the most populated city with a population of 2,278,000 after merger of surrounding towns of Bheemunipatnam and Anakapalle Municipalities into Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (VMC) and it was upgraded to Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC). Proposals to merge some near by villages to Vijayawada, Kakinada, and Rajamahendravaram Municipal Corporations. Visakhapatnam, Kakinada, and Tirupati are being developed as Smart cities by Government of India under Smart Cities Mission. ''The cities written in bold are the headquarters of their respective district.'' ...
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List Of Constituencies Of The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
The Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh currently has 175 constituencies out of which 29 constituencies are reserved for Scheduled Castes candidates and 7 constituencies are reserved for Scheduled tribes candidates. District-wise summary List of current constituencies The below is a list of constituencies of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly. List of former constituencies See also *List of former constituencies of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly * Lok Sabha constituencies of Andhra Pradesh *Andhra Pradesh State Assembly The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly or Andhra Pradesh Śāsana Sabha is the lower house of the Andhra Pradesh Legislature. The Legislative Assembly consists of 175 members which are elected by adult universal suffrage under the first-pa ... References External links Election Commissioner of India {{Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly * Constituencies, Vidan Sabha A ...
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Vidhan Sabha
The State Legislative Assembly, or Vidhan Sabha, or also Saasana Sabha, is a legislative body in the states and union territories of India. In the 28 states and 3 union territories with a unicameral state legislature, it is the sole legislative body and in 6 states it is the lower house of their bicameral state legislatures with the upper house being State Legislative Council. 5 union territories are governed directly by the Union Government of India and have no legislative body. Each Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is directly elected to serve 5-year terms by single-member constituencies. The Constitution of India states that a State Legislative Assembly must have no less than 60 and no more than 500 members however an exception may be granted via an Act of Parliament as is the case in the states of Goa, Sikkim, Mizoram and the union territory of Puducherry which have fewer than 60 members. A State Legislative Assembly may be dissolved in a state of emergenc ...
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National Highway 216 (India)
National Highway 216 (NH 216) (previously: NH 214 and NH 214A) is a National Highway in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The former highways of NH 214 and 214A were merged and renumbered as NH 216. It starts from NH 16 junction at Kattipudi and passes through Kakinada, Amalapuram, Digamarru (Palakollu), Narasapuram, Machilipatnam, Repalle, Cherukupalle, Bapatla, Chirala before it junctions NH 16 again at Ongole. Visakhapatnam–Kakinada Petro Chemical Corridor'','' is a proposed project along the highway. Route The highway has a total route length of . It passes through the districts of Kakinada, East Godavari, West Godavari, Krishna, Bapatla and Prakasam of Andhra Pradesh. National Highway 216 starts from NH16 at Kathipudi village and it passes through towns and cities like Gollaprolu, Pithapuram, Kakinada, Yanam, Mummidivaram, Amalapuram, Razole, Digamarru (Palakollu), Narsapuram, Pedana, Machilipatnam, Repalle, Cherukupalle, Bapatla Bapatla is a ci ...
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National Highway 221 (India)
National Highway 30 (NH 30) is a primary national highway in India. NH 30 connects Sitarganj in Uttarakhand with Ibrahimpatnam, Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh. The total length of this highway is . It starts at the junction of NH 9 at Sitarganj and ends at the junction of NH 65 at Ibrahimpatnam, Vijayawada. Development of Ibrahimpatnam-Jagadalpur Route is under process. Rajdeep Rohan joint venture is the contract agency for this project. Second bridge is under construction at pilgrimage city of Bhadrachalam which is famous for temple of Lord Shri Rama. NH-30 runs through the states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh in India. History Before renumbering of national highways, NH-30 route was variously numbered as old national highways 74, 75, 24, 24B, 27, 7, 12A, 200, 43, 16 and 221. Route NH30 starts at the city of Sitarganj connecting Pilibhit, Bareilly, Tilhar, Shahjahanpur, Sitapur, Lucknow, Raebareli, Allahabad , ...
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National Highway 65 (India)
National Highway 65 (NH 65), (previously National Highway 9), is a National Highway in India. It runs along the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. It starts at Pune and ends at Machilipatnam. Major cities on this route are Pune, Solapur, Hyderabad, Suryapet, Vijayawada and Machilipatnam. The section between Hyderabad and Vijayawada, is known as Vijayawada–Hyderabad Expressway and is a major expressway. The highway runs through the beautiful scenario of regions like Pune, Solapur, Hyderabad, Suryapet and more. The four lane wide highway drives swiftly through the villages of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana and Andra Pradesh with best road conditions and minimum till collection. For less traffic it takes bypass at many major cities like Indapur , Solapur, Hyderabad, Suryapet. Route The NH 65 passes through below cities and towns, in the order of travel from west to east: ;Maharashtra (349.20 km) * Pune * Hadapsar (Suburb of Pune) * Lo ...
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