Piduguralla is a town in

Palnadu district Palnadu district is a district in coastal Andhra Region in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. With Narasaraopet as its administrative headquarters, it was formed on 04 April 2022 to become one of the resultant twenty-six districts The district ...

of the Indian state of

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.The town is the headquarters of Piduguralla mandal and administered under

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. The town is also known as ''Lime City of India '' as there are abundant reserves of limestone.

Governance

Civic administration The Piduguralla municipality was formed on 21 May 2005 and has an extent of . Politics Piduguralla is a part of Gurazala (Assembly constituency) for

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is the present MLA of the constituency from

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. It is also a part of

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which was won by Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu of YSR Congress Party.

Economy

Agriculture Most of the people here depend on agriculture with fertile lands having abundant water from the Nagarjunasagar canals. The major agriculture produce includes,

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etc. Hence, the town has many rice and cotton mills. Industries There are many

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as well. So, one of the main professions of the people is quarrying and exporting limestone and white cement in Piduguralla. Business is not restricted to lime stone only; there are several other industries like Timber depots, Hollow brick industries, Computer Institutions, Photo studios, Printing presses, Hand embroidery, Fancy stores, Stationary shops, Pharmacies etc. Overall it is one of the most important business places in Guntur district. The town also has big companies' branches like

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. It also has companies like Surya Cement, T&D Group Pvt Ltd (under which it has T&D Minerals and T&D Future Kids) etc.

Transport

National Highway 167A (NH167A) passes through Piduguralla. It is well connected by buses for

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. It has a well established bus depot that connects villages around the town. The bus station code is PDRL. Trains from/to

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, Tirupathi,

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pass via Piduguralla. Later, Guntur-Nadikudi-Macherla line was converted from Meter Gauge to Broad Gauge

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and a new line was laid from Bibinagar, near Hyderabad, to Nadikudi. Thus Piduguralla is connected directly to Hyderabad by Broad Gauge Line. Piduguralla is located on the Pagidipalle-Nallapadu section Guntur division of South Central Railway (SCR). The railway Station code for Piduguralla is PGRL. The railway line is an electrified single line one and a new railway track (Nadikudi-Srikalahasti) is under construction. In first phase of Nadikudi-Srikalahasti 46 km From New Piduguralla Junction to Savalyapuram was completed. Electrification proposal is also under progress.

Education

The primary and secondary school education is imparted by government, aided and private schools, under the ''School Education Department'' of the state. The medium of instruction followed by different schools are English, Telugu.

References

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