Chintalapudi, Eluru district

Chintalapudi is a town municipality, constituency and mandal headquarters in Eluru District of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh .^[2] Chintalapudi is one of oldest town in the Andhra Pradesh, but still it is under developed. There is no proper road and transport to the town. People of the town still struggling to reach the nearest cities. There is lot of history around this town, dates back to 600BC to 300BC.The human movement here from 2300 years ago. The village named Jeelakargudem is located 15 km away from here and contains some of the oldest ancient monuments in Buddhism. The carvings on the Sandrock hill are really surprising . According to the ASI and some historians the historical site belongs to Ashoka reign. The historical site is one of the best tourist attraction in the locality, but lack of proper care from government and people the site is ruining. This region is also famous for cultivation of Oil Plam. It's nearly contributes 50% to 60% of total district cultivation of Oil Palm. According to some sources this region contains a vast coal reserves in the country. Your can find more on this in some popular news journals.

Chintalapudi
Town
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Chintalapudi Location in Andhra Pradesh, India
Coordinates: 17.0417°N 80.5901°E / 17.0417; 80.5901
Country	India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District	Eluru
Founded by	Unknown
Named for	At the entrance of town there are number of Tamarind trees చింతచెట్టు in Telugu language so the name of town called as చింతలపూడి
Talukas	Chintalapudi
Government
• Body	municipality
Population  (2019)[1]
• Total	35,242
Languages
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	534460
Telephone code	08823, +91
Vehicle registration	AP 37 (previous) now AP 39

Demographics

Chintalapudi is located in Eluru district, Andhra Pradesh. It has population of 35242 of which 12438 are males while 13514 are females as per Population Census 2011. In Chintalapudi village population of children with age 0-6 is 2652. Average Sex Ratio of Chintalapudi village is 1087 which is higher than Andhra Pradesh state average of 993. Child Sex Ratio for the Chintalapudi as per census is 997, higher than Andhra Pradesh average of 939. Chintalapudi village has higher literacy rate compared to Andhra Pradesh. In 2011, its literacy rate was 78.08% compared to 67.02% of Andhra Pradesh.^[3]

Transport

Eluru is the nearest city to Chintalapudi at a distance of 47 km. APSRTC runs busses from Eluru, Jangareddygudem and Sattupalli to bus station at Chintalapudi.^[4]

References

1. "Census 2011". The Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
2. "Mandal wise villages" (PDF). Revenue Department - AP Land. National Informatics Center. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 December 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
3. "Chintalapudi Village Population - Chintalapudi - West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh".
4. "Two new bus services from Jangareddygudem launched". The New Indian Express. 8 August 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2018.