Country India District Kadapa Time zone IST (UTC+5:30) | State Andhra Pradesh Talukas Yerraguntla PIN 516360 | |
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Potladurthi is a village in Kadapa district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Situated in the bank of Penna River on the way of Yeraaguntla and Proddatur road in the area of 4336 acres with the population around 8000 to 9000.
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This village is famous for black stone business. The stones called Kadapa stones (black stone) are mined from the mines of this village. The Kadapa stones have a reputation throughout the world as these stones are exported to other countries. It is located 5 km away from Proddatur.
Potladurthi is famous for festival celebrations during Ganesh chathurthi all Ganesh idol from all the streets come together for nimarjan, expecially Reddy youth association and sri vigneswara youth association idols are famous,its like a carnival fest for Potladurthi villagers. Everybody in Potladurthi used to really enjoy this fest; another one is Gangamma Jatara during ugadi. This Gangamma Jatara is famous throughout the Kadapa District. Apart from ganagmama jathara it is famous for Peddama jatara (festival) also and these celebrations during will be Ugadi festival. In this village there are somany temples like Sivalayam, Lakshmi prasanna venkateswara alayam, Chennakesavalayam, ramalayam, Ganga temple, Peddamma temple, Veerabrahmendraswamy math etc.
Population of this village are farmers, stone mine holders and merchants and people mostly are thapi mastries for the construction and development of the houses in and around the near towns and throughout Kadapa District. This village is highly developed with regards to construction of the houses, living nature, in view of basic need facilities and self-sufficiency of the villagers. This village has Zilla Parishad high school providing the education to thousand of the students near and around the villages. This school not only provides the education, but along with the education makes national and state level sports stars in many type of sports.
Nowadays this village is going to achieve complete literacy for all the children living in the village.
Strengths of this village are: -90% Cement roads -90% pucca Houses -3 Elementary,1 Z.P High School -6 Anganwadi Schools -1 Gram panchayat office -1PHC,1 Veterinary Sub centre -1 Social Welfare Hostel for Boys -2 Ration shops, 1 Super Market (Srikanth Naidu's Supermarket) -1 Post office -3 protected water schemes -81 Selp Help Groups-about 800 women members with Dwakra groups -Excellent greenery-avenue plantation -20 historical and modern temples -5 Marriage Function Halls ( 2 Reddy function Hall, Chennakesavaswami function Hall, Dr. Vijaya Sri Tyagaraja reddy function Hall)
Potladuthinas are really proud to live in Potladurthi with the adequate resources of a town even though Potladurthi is really a village.
Transportation
It is well connected by road to all the major towns, Proddatur, Kadapa, Yerraguntla and Pulivendula and Vempalli, Gandi kshetram. The nearest railway station is Yerraguntla about 10 km away, and is on the Mumbai - Chennai railway line. Potladurthi has been awarded as the best panchayat in the year 2007, and received award from the president of India for its development activities and self-sufficiency. This award is completely dedicated to our village president as his dediation towards the development of the village. It is one of the only few villages in India, where everyone in the village has a pacca house, and all other basic necessities. this is the village as centre point and from here trnaportation to Rayalaseema Thermal Power project (RTPP),Venkatapuram, Malepadu, Kallamalla and other side to kamalapuram, Kogatam, Hanumanaguthi and yerraguntla.