Siripuram, Guntur district

Siripuram సిరిపురం
Village
Gram panchayat office in Siripuram
Siripuram Location in Andhra Pradesh, India
Coordinates: 16°11′N 80°17′E / 16.18°N 80.29°ECoordinates: 16°11′N 80°17′E / 16.18°N 80.29°E
Country	India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District	Guntur
Mandal	Medikonduru
Area[1]
• Total	16.41 km^2 (6.34 sq mi)
Population (2015)
• Total	Around 13,000
Languages
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN	522,401
Telephone code	+91–863

Siripuram is a village in Guntur district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located in Medikonduru mandal.^[1][2]

It is located 25 km towards west from District headquarters Guntur, 8 km from Medikonduru. The total geographical area of village is 1641 hectares. Siripuram has a total population of 8,766. There are about 2,391 houses in Siripuram village.

Siripuram Pin code is 522401 and postal head office is Siripuram (Guntur).

Garnepudi (3 km), Varagani (4 km), Lingamguntla (4 km), Paladugu (5 km), Ravela (6 km) are the nearby villages to Siripuram. Siripuram is surrounded by Pedakurapadu Mandal towards north, Phirangipuram Mandal towards south, Sattenapalle Mandal towards west, Tadikonda Mandal towards east.

Governance

The Gram panchayat is the local self-government in the Siripuram, headed by a Sarpanch since 1953.

The Sahakara Sangam co-operative body gives financial support to village farmers by providing fertilisers with market best rates as in the form of agriculture loans. This lets farmers save time and energy in procurement.

The Village revenue office (VRO) looks into revenue functionary at the village level to handle the work relating to land and revenue matters and as per statement government hierarchy VRO is led by MRO (Mandal Level).

Education

The Siripuram village has 4 government preliminary schools, 1 missionary school. All the schools have five or more teachers to handle each class separately and provide education for 1st class to 5th class to village children. A few convent schools also provide primary education to village children in English medium.

The Zilla Praza Parishad (ZPP) high school was established in the 1940s, as ZP high school. The land for the school was donated by Veluvolu Chukkaya Garu. Till 1995, it was the only school in the area. Students from surrounding villages like Varagani, Mandapadu, Bandurupalli, Podapadu and Garnepudi used to come to Siripuram for studying. The school has more than 500 students. The school has a tradition of embossing the names of the students with the highest scores on the dashboard. The school has a sports ground and a garden.

The village has a Government Junior College. Siripuram is the only village in this region of the mandal to have a Junior College for post-11th-grade education. Initially, it was located on the first floor of the local high school, but now it has a separate building. Several eminent persons of the village collected funds to establish the separate building. The Junior College offers all branches/courses of intermediate i.e. M.P.C, Bi.P.C, C.EC and H.E.C in Telugu medium. It has modern lab and sports facilities.

Transport

The village has bus and rail connectivity with a bus stand and Siripuram railway station.

The local bus stand is located at Siripuram center, just beside the Lord Vinayaka temple. The buses run by the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) connect the village to nearby towns like Guntur and Sattenpalli through a state highway. Other places accessible by the buses include Patibandla, Pedakorapadu, Lagadapadu, Varagani, Hussian Nagaram and Tallaru. From 5:00 am till 9:30 pm the buses are operated at an every hour to Guntur. Also many service autos are available for connecting to the main Road, from this point there are many bus services to Guntur and Sattenpalli.

The Hyderabad-Guntur railway track is located half a kilometre away from town center, adjacent to the fields. Although many fast trains (e.g. Narsapur, Faluknama, Chennai or Palnadu Express) don't stop at Siripuram, there are several passenger trains that connect the town to Guntur, Sattenapalli, Hyderabad and Secunderabad:

1. Macharla–Bheemavaram
2. Guntur-Macharla
3. Repalle–Secunderabad
4. Delta Fast Passenger

Sattenapalli or Guntur are the nearest railway stations where the express trains stop.

References

1. "District Census Handbook - Guntur" (PDF). Census of India. p. 14,378. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
2. "District Level Mandal wise List of Villages in Andhra Pradesh" (PDF). Chief Commissioner of Land Administration. National Informatics Centre. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2014. Retrieved 19 September 2015.