Jaggayyapeta

Infobox Indian Jurisdiction
native_name = Jaggayyapet | type = town | latd = 16.52| longd = 80.09
state_name = Andhra Pradesh
district = Krishna
leader_title = Municipal Chairman
leader_name = Raja Gopalam Sreeram (Tataiah)
altitude = 45
population_as_of = 2001
population_total = 55,817| population_density =
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area_telephone = 8654
postal_code = 521175
country = India
language = Telugu
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Jaggayyapeta is an ancient town and now a municipality in Krishna district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Its original name, Bethavolu, was changed to Jaggayyapeta by Raja Vasireddy Venkatadri Nayudu in memory of his father, Jagga Nayudu. Bethavolu was very famous for its ancient Buddhist stupa built during the Satavahana period.

Demographics

As of the 2001 India census, [GR|India] Jaggayyapeta has a population of 39,817, with a male-female split of 51%-49%. Jaggayyapeta has an average literacy rate of 67%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 73%, and female literacy is 60%. 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Government and Religion

Jaggayypeta is an assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh with 74 villages and 159,070 registered voters.

List of Elected Members: [ [http://archive.eci.gov.in/March2004/pollupd/ac/states/s01/Partycomp75.htm Election Commission of India.A.P.Assembly results.1978-2004] ]
*1978 - Bodduluru Rama Rao, Indian National Congress.
*1983 - Akkineni Lokeswara Rao, Telugu Desam Party
*1985, 1989 and 1994 - Nettem Raghuram, Telugu Desam Party.
*1999 and 2004, currently in power - Samineni Udayabhanu, Indian National Congress.municiple charman currently in power is sriram rajgopal,Indian National Congress.

Monuments & Antiquities

During the excavations in 1818, a few carved slabs from one of the brick mounds revealed the existence of a group of ancient stupas. After excavation, the stupa was found to be 9 meters in diameter and was decorated with slabs of the same material used in Amaravati. Inside the casing the stupa is made completely out of bricks and earth. About a kilometer from the town is a hill known as Dhanabodu or Hill of wealth on which once stood a great Stupa or Mahachaitya. Around the hillock are traces of monastic buildings.

A Mahachaitya filled with layers of rubble & gravel two feet thick . The slabs surrounding the base of the stupa were plain very few of them having any carving except a small pilaster up the edge. Some of the sculptures on the pilasters closely resemble in style of Bharhut sculptures. The capitals are heavy and roughly bell-shaped and show addorsed double-winged animals like that at Patalkhora. Some of the slabs were inscribed in characters of Mauryan type ascribable to the beginning of the 2nd century BC.

Jaggayyapet is very famous for musical instrument manufacturers and famous clarinet players like Sri.Kasim Saheb (All India Radio, Vijayawada Staff artist) born here and lot of people learned music (classical and instrumental) from him from all over Andhra Pradesh.

Features

There are approximately 150 temples in the town. It has one government college (S.G.S college) and Five well-known schools: Z.P.H. School, Chegu vidyalayam, Nagarjuna Public School, Little Angels Public School you can also visit the official website of the LAPS at this URL. (http://www.littleangelspublicschool.com) to know more information about LAPS you can visit its personal page at here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Angels_Public_School) and Jawahar D A V Public School, VIGNAN high school (Telugu and English) medium. It has well-established private colleges mainly: J.R.College and S.A.V & N.V.J.R college and a newly started Engineering college PITS (Prasad Institute of Technical Sciences).Here Konkimalla family is famous for its development in business of Jaggayyapet.Sainath of this family studied in Chegu vidyalayam.

Industry

Jaggayyapeta is now famous for its cement industries, Musical Instruments and gold businesses - there are around ten cement industrial sites near the town. The delayed Pulichintala Project is around 21 km from the centre of Jaggayyapeta.

Living conditions are pretty good in this place. people are soft nature and support each other.

Villages in Jaggayyapeta Mandal

The following is the list of villages in this Mandal. [cite web
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*Annavaram
*Anumanchipalle
*Balusupadu
*Bandipalem
*Buchavaram
*Budawada
*Chillakallu
*Gandrai
*Garikapadu
*Gowravaram
*Jaggayyapeta
*Jayanthipuram
*Kowthavari agraharam
*Malkapuram
*Mukteswarapuram
*Pochampalle
*Ramachandrunipeta
*Raavikampadu
*Ravirala
*Sher mohammadpeta
*Thakkellapadu
*Tirumalagiri
*Torraguntapalem
*Tripuravaram
*Vedadri

ee also

*Samineni Udayabhanu

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