Tiruvur is a town in

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 ...

formerly Krishna district of the

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Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to t ...

. It is a

nagar panchayat A nagar panchayat (town panchayat; ) or Notified Area Council (NAC) in India is a settlement in transition from rural to urban and therefore a form of an urban political unit comparable to a municipality. An urban centre with more than 12,000 ...

in Tiruvur mandal of Tiruvur revenue division.

Governance

Tiruvuru municipality is the civic administrative body of the town. It was constituted in the year 2011 and covers an area of . The Municipality has a total of 20 wards, with seventeen wards reserved and three unreserved. The reserved wards include general and women reservations in SC, ST and BC. The municipal chairman is M.Krishna Kumari and vice chairman is S.Venkata Narasimha Rao.

Politics

Tiruvuru falls under the administration of Tiruvuru

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and is represented by the Tiruvuru (SC) Assembly constituency, which in turn represents Andhra Pradeshs

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. the MLA representing Tiruvuru constituency is Kokkiligadda Rakshana Nidhi of the

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Economy

Agriculture is the main occupation. The

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are in abundant with

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, Totapuri varieties. These are exported to cities namely

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and

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Transport

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is the nearest railway station to the village. It is administered under

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of the

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NH 30 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 Sitarga ...

passes through the town, which connects

Vijayawada Vijayawada, formerly known as Bezawada, is the second largest city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and is a part of the state's Capital Region. It is the administrative headquarters of the NTR district. Its metropolitan region comprises N ...

in Andhra Pradesh to

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in Chhattisgarh. The town has a total road length of .

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Bus service are also here.

References

{{reflist Cities and towns in NTR district 2011 census http://dataforall.org/dashboard/censusinfoindia_pca/