Mellempudi

Mellempudi is a small village in Tadepalli mandel, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. Its Pincode is 522303 and coordinates: 16°25'32"N 80°37'33"E. It is 9 km from Vijayawada, 9 km to Mangalagiri, 22 km to Tenali and 30 km away from Guntur.

It is a wealthy village with most people are farmers, also most of them are well settled. This village is one of the well educated villages in AP. This village don't have water problem cause getting very tasty water just 15–20 ft from surface.

The village land is good for agriculture. Main crops are banana (arati), turmeric (pasupu) the famous Duggirala pasupu is from this village & surrounding villages, maize(mokkajonna), paddy(vari-rice), sugarcane(cheraku), blackgrams(minumulu), cauliflower, kanda and vegetables and also flowers like Jasmine, Rose, Kanakambaram etc..

This village is not having very good transportation nowadays. There is no Official Bus services form APSRTC. The people in this village is depending only on private transportation. The wealth of the village is water resources and land (its Gold).

For education, this village is having one primary school named Mandal Parishath Upper Primary School (M.P.U.P School). Recently in this village people found Devotional status of Various Hindu gods (ancient Idles) which are recovered from excavation.

As for the politics are concerned , village is divided in to Congress, TDP, YSR Congress groups.

There are good schools and colleges near to the village. The famous Koneru Lakshmiah College of Engineering (now KL University) is just 2 minute ride (1KM) from the village. As the village is near to all comforts (cities, schools, colleges) people lead a pleasant life. In olden days the village people had good knowledge and shares in Mumbai Share Market. The village is also termed as Mini Bombay.

There are temples of Ramalayam, lord Venugopala swamy, lord Shiva, lord Vinayaka, a Mosque and two churches.

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• Mandal : Thadepalli
• District: Guntur