Country India District Prakasam PIN 523113 Elevation 632 m Area code 08599 | State Andhra Pradesh Time zone IST (UTC+5:30) Telephone code 08599 Population 1,584 (2001) | |
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Nekunam Puram is a village and is part of valetivari Palem mandal and Kandukur taaluk in Prakasam district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
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Language
Most people speak Telugu which is the mostly spoken in state of Andhra Pradesh.
Geography
Nekunam Puram is located between Kandukur and Valetivari Palem. 8 km from Kandukur on Pamur Road.
Demographics
Nekunam Puram had a population of approximately 1,584. Males constitute 55% of the population and females 45%. Nekunam Puram has an average literacy rate of 70%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 72%, and female literacy is 55%. In Nekunam Puram, 100% of the children's go to English Medium school.
Occupation
50% of the people in Nekunam Puram rely on Tobacco harvest. 30% of folks rely on Rice harvest which is mainly depending on rain. Recent days 20% of the folks leaving village and going to nearby towns, some are working in capital cities and 5 families settled as NRIs.
The surname of the most of the folks is Kancharla and some people have Kolluri. Recently, all the parents are willing to send their children's to the nearest English Medium schools instead of elementary school present in the village. The number of engineering graduates is increasing gradually year to year. In the recent days, some of the young youngsters settled as Software Engineers in India.
Occupation of the most of the folks is Farmers. The village doesn't have the proper water resources to cultivate the crops like paddy. There is one lift irrigation, but the folks don't use the resource properly as lack of unity. Because of the low rain fall rate for the last couple of years, most of the farmers are concentrating on the crops like tobacco, chillies and cereals.
Recently the Young employees of the village took the initiative to repair the lift irrigation pipeline which costs around 1.5Lakh. The working youth village members across the world contributed towards this. It is good to see such a tremendous response which never expected.
it is a developing village.