Siripuram

Infobox Indian Jurisdiction
native_name = Siripuram
type = Village
locator_position =
latd = 17.249
longd = 82.151
population_total = 10000
state_name = Andhra Pradesh
district = Guntur
taluk_names = Medikonduru
area_telephone = 0863
postal_code = 522401
footnotes =

Siripuram is a village convert|22|km|0 by road and convert|18|km|0 by rail from Guntur. This village comes under Medikonduru mandal and under sattenpalli consistency. Population of this village is approximately 10,000 people.

In one view Siripuram is having a posh look, cement roads spread out in most part of the village, considerably attractive buildings, with good infrastructure and amenities which are needed in our daily life. Along with that our village is having a very good transportation facility to nearby towns, primary health care centers, veterinary hospital, post office, bank, schools and college.

On the contrary, we still could see a cluster of mud-plastered walls shaded by trees, set among a stretch of green or dun-colored fields, with a handful of people moving around, oxcarts creaking, cattle lowing, and birds singing--all presenting an image of harmonious simplicity.

Youth of the village are concentrating on education. Parents are putting maximum effort to provide good education to their children. With hard effort and single-minded devotion, you can make possible what seems impossible. I believe this is what youth of siripuram is doing. We can see many educated youth settled abroad (US, Europe, UAE, different zones of Asian region…ex) and all major cities of India as doctors, teachers, lawyers, engineers and many skilled professionals.

Economy of the village is dependend on cultivation like any other typical village in Andhra Pradesh, India. Agro & Food processing industries are yet to be encouraged. Children in village should be provided with a quality and value based education. Infrastructure and teaching methodologies in schools are to be reformed. Villagers should be united for development.

Major events

January, Tirunalla

Festive fever starts from 25 December,Christmas and children from school will be eagerly waiting for the holidays for this festival, and elders would engage themselves in cleaning their houses and making arrangements for their guests for this 3 days festival. Many homes of the village are decorated with lights, buntings, and stars.December 31st night, we can witness a considerably large gathering of villagers at church campus for seeing Drama / Natakam which is performed by the village artists. Audience will get more energetic when a song is about to be sung, and peculiar aspect of the audience is to shout “Once more” after it is over. And another interesting point is sudden applause comes from audience after a powerful dialogue punches from a stage artist.When the clock strikes 12, all of a sudden stage lights will go dim and big drums beats begin with Happy New Year wishes followed by audience wishing among themselves.

First 3 days of a year (i.e 1–3 January), Siripuram village people will celebrat this as tirunala (it is also called utsav, or mela). When we think of this 3-day festival, different images conjure up in our mind; particularly a crowded gathering in village roads, each family of village felt it’s our festival irrespective religion/community. Wow…How good it looks like, and this event makes distinctive characteristic/representation to our village along with that it brings harmony among religions.

This festival is celebrated on the eve of naming ceremony preformed to God Jesus Christ after his birth, hence this festival is called “Jesu Namakarana Mahostavm”.

First day of the festival i.e on January 1st everyone comes to church, lights candles before God Jesus Christ and get his blessings. Many cultural activities are organized in church campus like kolatam, chekka bajana,etc which will draw big crowd. This is followed by Ooreganipu, starting with fire works, goodess Mary Matha is believed to come to village streets to give her blessing to the villagers.

During this festive season churches will be decorated with wonderful light work best to suit the mood of the joy and happiness. These 3 days, the churches will be open all round the day for seeing special prayers conducted by the church father.

Village roads are packed up with many toys stalls, rangula rantalu, lotteries, different food making carts(peechu mitai, jilebi, panchara chilakulu etc) and cheruku stalls.

We will observe many interesting things like groups of youngsters coming to these lottery shops (famously called as koppulata) and put money. Group of children will come to streets for playing rangularatanm and buying toys and group village women will come out for making new purchases for their children.

ankranthi Sambaralu

sankranthi is a three day festival The first day of this festival is called Bhogi. On this day youngsters and children of the family are supposed to wake early, before the sunrise and collect dry twigs, grass and other similar kinds of combustible material and light a bonfire. The ash from the bhogi is also used by people, and applied on their foreheads.

The second day is the actual Sankranthi day. In every house used to prepare some sweets which spreads good aroma to neighbors.

Kanumu is the third day and is celebrated as a cattle festival. On this day the peasants wake up early to bathe their cattle & paint their horns with bright colors and tie bells around their necks.

We will really enjoyed to see scenes like gangireddulavadu come before of every one house and ask his ox/bull to "AYYAGARIKI DANDAM pettu, Ammagariki Dandam pettu," then woman/men of the house offers grain and cloth to the ox/bull - aptly dressed for the occasion - and the ox nods and bows in acknowledgement of the munificence before moving to the next house. Total month women of the house (teluginti sirpuram aadapaduchulu) draw muggulu or rangoli on the front yards of the house. The muggulu is a sort of decorative pattern generally drawn with mortar. The women are also supposed to make Gobbemmas which are lumps of cow-dung and place it on the drawings in front of their house

Dasara Navaratri Ustav

Navaratri or Dasara is grandly celebrated in Sri Vasavi Kanyaka Parameswari temple. These are being celebrated to remember how Devi Durgamatha killed various demons in order to bring peace. She waged war against various demons and their followers, the demon soldiers. All these are elaborately written in Devi Bhagavatham and many other Puranas. Kanyaka Parameswari who is Matha herself is worshipped as Parvathi. Hence during the Navaratri days Kanyaka Parameswari is specially worshipped in nine forms or avataras (Annapurna, saraswati, durga, rajarajeswari…..ex) one each day. Special decorations, costumes, weapons are given to the Utsava Vigraham to form various avatars.

During festive season, each day begins with Bavatgita parayanam , and followed by pooja with asta shasranamam. One more special attraction is Bathkamma pooja, group of village women sit around goodess and clapping rhythmically for a songs and all songs carry the essence - `long live mother' - urging the goddess to take birth. Along with this special events are used arrange like satasanga, kolatam,…ex

These nine days Kanyaka Parameswari temple will become more colorful with bright lights and with devotees of village. After these nine or 10 days (sometimes) of festival there is a grand finale in the form of ooreganipu. Goddess Sri Kanyaka Parameswari will come into our streets, to blessing the villagers for their better living.

Vinayaka Chaviti Celebrations

Vinayaka Chavithi is Lord Ganesha's birthday. This festival is observed in the Hindu calendar month of Bhaadrapada, starting on the shukla chaturthi. It evokes so many sweet memories from the childhood, as we wake up so early this day and get ready to go fields and collect partika ( jielledu, mamadi, nandi vardanam, ….ex) for puja, followed by dip in water canal.

Considerably biggest idols of Lord Ganesha are, being installed in various places of siripuram and during the celebrations, devotees would be allowed to have darshan round-the-clock, and school-going children put their slates and books marked with Sandal paste and vermilion near the platform of Vinayaka.

Laddu auction will conducted last day of festival and buyers believe that sprinkling the laddu in agricultural fields would fetch good crop during the year, feels many of the buyers of the laddu.

Local governance

Panchayati

Panchayats have been the backbone of the Indian villages since the beginning of recorded history, either way we called this as a local body/local administrative system is functioning by ward members headed by Preseident / Sarpanch and he is the focal point of contact between government officers and the village community.

In 1953 siripuram village was formed as Panchayati and here the list of village president/ sarpanch who worked for the good of village.

ahakara Parapathi Sangam

The main aim of this Sahakara sangam is give financial support to village farmers by providing fertilizers with market best rates as in the form of Agriculture loans. This makes farmers are saving time and energy in procurement.

Village revenue office

VRO will look 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 lead by MRO ( Mandal Level).

Amenities

Pala Kendram

Siripuram village is having three dairy collection units, which will raise hopes among dairy farmers in the Village. The main purpose of this units is incurring losses in agriculture can switch over to dairy farming and reap profits.

Number of milk farmers selling milk to these centers varies from 1 to 10 liters and the daily collection varies from 100 liters to 10,000 liters Farmers bring their milk in a variety of containers and cans. Each farmer is given a card as an identification. The farmer arrives at the counter and drops the card to an accountant for the amount of milk he sell for the day. Then the milk is emptied out in a steel can by measuring equipment. Followed by collected milk is transported to the dairy

Primary school

Siripuram village is having satisfactory position by having 4 government preliminary schools, 1 missionary school and all schools having five or more teachers to handle each class separately and provide education for 1st class to 5th class to village children. Along with that a few convent schools is also a part of providing primary education to village children in English medium.