Golugonda is a village and a

Mandal A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administrative c ...

Anakapalli district Anakapalli district is a district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It was formed on 4 April 2022 from Anakapalli and Narsipatnam revenue divisions of the old Visakhapatnam district. The administrative headquarters are at Anakapalli. San ...

in the state of

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. This village is famous for availability of semi-precious stones. Special police squads have been formed to prevent illegal

quarry A quarry is a type of open-pit mining, open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock (geology), rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground. The operation of quarries is regulated in some juri ...

ing of semi-precious stones both here and in other mandals in the district.

Assembly constituency

Golugonda was an assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh. * 1951 - Kankipadi Veerana Padal and Killada Ramamurthy * 1955 - Ruthala Latchapatrudu

References

{{Anakapalli district Villages in Anakapalli district