Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Athota
Village in Andhra Pradesh, India From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Athota is a village in Guntur district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located in Kollipara mandal of Tenali revenue division.[2]
.svg)
Remove ads
Geography
Athota is situated to the west of the mandal headquarters, Kollipara,[5] at 16.2910°N 80.6816°E. It is spread over an area of 711 ha (1,760 acres).[2] The village is at a distance of 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) northeast Tenali, 28 kilometres (17 mi) east of the district headquarters, Guntur and 34 kilometres (21 mi) south of Vijayawada.
Remove ads
Demographics
As of 2011[update] census of India, there were 1,723 households with a population of 5,628. It comprises 2,793 males, 2,835 females and 511 children (age group of 0–6 years). The children include 257 boys and 254 girls. The average literacy rate stands at 64.96% with 3,656 literates, of these males are 828 (32.65%) and females literates are 1144 (44.32%). There are a total of 2,803 workers and 2,825 non–workers.[3]
Remove ads
Governance
Athota gram panchayat is the local self-government of the village.[1] The currently ruling sarpanch in this village is Sri Desaboina Naga Punneswara Rao.[6] It is divided into wards and each ward is represented by a ward member.[7] The village forms a part of Andhra Pradesh Capital Region and is under the jurisdiction of APCRDA.[8] It belongs to Tenali (Assembly constituency) for Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly, which in turn is a part of Guntur (Lok Sabha constituency).[9]
Education
As per the school information report for the academic year 2018–19, the village has 6 schools. These include one private and one ZPHS and four Mandal Parishad schools.[10]
See also
References
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads