Chittoor

This article is about the municipality in India. For its namesake district, see Chittoor district.

Not to be confused with Chittor or Chittur.

చిత్తూరు Chittoor
—  city  —
చిత్తూరు Chittoor Location of చిత్తూరు Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh and India
Coordinates	13°12′00″N 79°07′00″E / 13.2000°N 79.1167°E / 13.2000; 79.1167Coordinates: 13°12′00″N 79°07′00″E / 13.2000°N 79.1167°E / 13.2000; 79.1167
Country	India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District(s)	Chittoor
Time zone	IST (UTC+05:30)
Area • Elevation	• 5,333 metres (17,497 ft)
Codes • Pincode • 517001,517002, 517003,517004, 517127 • Telephone • +8572

Chittoor (Telugu: చిత్తూరు)Tamil: சித்தூர் also known as Chittur, is a City and municipal corporation located in the Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is conveniently located on major highways linking the cities of Bangalore and Chennai.

District, geography and location

Chittoor city lies on the banks of Ponnai River at the southernmost part of Andhra Pradesh. The Chittoor district (Area 15,359 km², population 2,267,769-1991 census) is bounded by Anantapur District to the northwest, Cuddapah District to the north, Nellore District to the northeast, Vellore & Tiruvallur districts of Tamil Nadu state to the south, and Karnataka state to the southwest. The city is strategically located at the junction of Bangalore-Chennai national highway 4 and national highway 18. The city is famous for Kanipakam Vinayaka Temple which is located at a distance of 12 kms in Irala Mandal, and in addition, the district is known for Tirupati, and Sri Kalahasti temples. Chittoor's culture is the combination of Telugu Andhra Pradesh and Tamilian Tamil Nadu.

Etymology

The word Chittoor is combination of two Tamil words Chit+oor which means Small Town in Tamil language. In ancient days, Chittoor was part of Tamil country of Thondai Nadu.

Demographics

Telugu is the official and principal language of the city, whereas Kannada and Tamil is also spoken chiefly. The town has a population 152,654 (2001 census). Chittoor town has a sex ratio of 1000:1002 above the states ratio of 100:992 according to 2011 census.^[1] The literacy rate of the town is 90.60%.^[2] Chittoor is upgraded as municipal corporation in 2011^[3]

Economy

Chittoor is the district capital and houses many of district level government institutions, Chittoor is predominantly an agro-market place for its district. It is a market center for mango, grain, sugarcane, and peanut and also milk . Industries include oilseed and rice milling. As the entry point for huge cluster of industries located in adjoining Vellore district esp. around Ranipet for Northern India, and strategically located in between Chennai and Bangalore, Chittoor boasts a busy logistics industry. Chittoor is developing town with many granite and mango pulp processing industries established around.

It is quite common to see thousands of men and women from Chittoor travel to Tirupathi, Ranipet and Vellore for work and education, and their remittances form one of the major income to the city's population. State government's initiatives to develop the district making use of its proximity to two major business centers of the country - Chennai and Bangalore, is expected to improve the economy of the district as well as Chittoor to a great extent.

Recent proposals of setting up of industrial parks around Tirupati by the state government and proposed upgradation of Tirupati Airport to International standards has given a significant boost to the region's economic activities. Chittoor's leading industry and largest employer is Amararaja Group employing over 3,600 people. It is home to NutrineConfectionaries, a major chocolate manufacturer in India, which was acquired by Godrej group in 2007. The ISRO Radar Center is located at Gadanki, on the Chittoor-Tirupati Highway. Poultry industry has a significant industry here, which is second only to Namakkal. Mango and tamarind groves surround the town of Chittoor, and cattle are raised in the district. It's also famous for mangos ( called as collector/totapari/chittoor variety) and jaggery. It exports nearly 500 Million Tonnes of Raw / Processed Pulp / Fruit to other countries. Around 200 small & medium scale granite industries function in and around Chittoor. Now defunct, Vijaya Diary, was one of the federations to process milk on a large scale in the district. It used to be the largest unit in the country after AMUL (Gujarat).But unfortunately it was closed. Madanapalle is the center of an agricultural region noted for its fruits and vegetables, especially tomatoes.

The district is also famous for hospitals like T.B.Sanitorium which is located in Arogyavaram, 5 km (3.1 mi) from Madanapalle, Apollo Hospital at Arragonda (as part of the out-reach scheme by Asia's largest private hospital chain Apollo Hospitals. A small part of Sricity the nearest business city in the epicentre of Andhra Pradesh & Tamil Nadu also falls in Chittoor. Rishi Valley, near Horsely Hills is noted for its residential education Gurukula. The renowned 20th-century Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti chose a site in the Valley for the establishment of an affiliated foundation, as well as for the Rishi Valley School, one of India's elite boarding schools, whose mission is based on his educational ideas.

Tourism

Chittoor district boasts few of the finest ancient/modern temples of the country such as Tirumala, Kanipakam and Sri Kalahasti. Other temples are also famous like Narayanavanam, Nagalapuram, Valmikipuram, Tharigonda & Karvetinagaram. Along with the adjoining Vellore district (esp. after the unveiling of Sripuram Golden Temple), Chittoor district forms one of the biggest tourism cluster in the country. Also, enormous Archeological finding in the region marks the region on the maps of Historians. Huge collection of antiques mostly with modern Tamil and old Telugu scripts which date back to early as 10th century have been unearthed from the region, can be found in various museums in Tirupati, Chittoor and Vellore. Tirupati temple is the most visited and richest temple in India, often receiving 200,000 visitors a day. Horsley Hills, formerly called Enugu Mallamma Konda, is a summer resort located near the town of Madanapalle and Chembakur. It is known to some as the "Andhra Ooty". Gurramkonda, in the western part of the district, is an historic center, with an old fort and a sultan's palace called the Rangini Mahal. Other notable places in the district are Ardhagiri, Chandragiri.

1. Chittoor has Ram Vilas Sabha which is the oldest drama club in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh
2. Ram Vilas Sabha is located beside Lakshmi Talkies, one of the oldest cinema Theatre in South India
3. Chittoor has Premala Talkies constructed in 1941 before Independence which is the first cinema theatre in entire Rayalaseema region, but this has been bought by EENADU group and demolished to build new commercial complex. Talakona is a shooting spot which is located about 20 km of western side of Tirupathi.
4. Chittoor has a deer forest with abundant variety of trees and it has stunning views and walking trails .Its the most welcoming place and most of the people go for walks and for jogging.
5. Kanchipuram which is famous for silk sarees is close to chittoor and every wedding planning will include a trip to this place.
6. Ponnai is about 30 km from chittoor has a really nice temple and asramam and it is one place which has small temples for each of the navagrahas.Its a nice relaxing place for a days trip
7. Thangal which an ashramam in Tamil Nadu is 20 km from chittoor and really nice scenic place to visit at any time but best time is to visit during the full moon days.
8. mogili eshwara temple
9. Famous cofectionary Nutrine later bought by Godrej Hersheys is located in Chittoor near Iruvaram
10. Dr Sir Cattamanchi Ramlinga reddy's house has been served as a school in Kattamanchi in chittoor
11. 75% of mangos & mango products which are exported are exported from chittoor

Chigaragunta forest has a gold mines which was operated by Bharat Gold Mines Limited till the year 2001 and due to non viable, the same was closed. This mine is near to Kuppam.

Food

Tamil Nadu and Karnataka style of cooking has great influence on food in Chittoor.

Educational institutions

Chittoor is home of many educational institutions. The notable ones are:

High Schools and Junior Colleges:

• D.R.Group Of Educational Society,Mittoor,Chittoor(In Future)

Viswavani English Medium School, Vinayakapuram, Chittoor.

• Shri Vidyarthi Junior College, Mittoor, Chittoor
• vignana Deepthi English Medium school veppamanu street chittoor
• PCR Govt High School, Chittoor.
• Sri Vivekanada Educational Academy, Chittoor (Junior college)
• THE INDIAN SCHOOL OF ENGLISH,
• SMS High School (Thapovanam)-Sanscrit School in Chittoor Town
• Sri Devi English Medium School, Greams pet, Chittoor
• Camford group of Schools, Chittoor & Madanapalle
  • GANGANAPALLE WEST CAMPUS
  • KONGAREDDY PALLI EAST CAMPUS
  • HORSLEY HILLS GLOBAL CAMPUS
• B.V.Reddy Senior Secondary School, Chittoor.
• GEMS, Santhapet, Chittoor.
• P.N.C.Municipal High School, Santhapet, Chittoor.
• Kings English Medium School, Chittoor
• Municipal High School, Greamspet, Chittoor
• Vidya Vihar High School, C.B Road, GreamsPet, Chittoor
• B.Z. High School, Chittoor.
• SHERMAN Girls High School, Chittoor.

. Golden Bells English Medium High School,K.R.Palli.

• S.V.Z.P High School, Kanipakam, Chittoor.
• PCR Govt Junior College, Chittoor.
• R.K Model school,gurunagar colony,Chittoor
• Varadappa Naidu Municipal School, Chittoor.
• B.S. Kannan Govt High School and Junior College.
• Sri Vani Vidyalaya,Santhapet, Chittoor.
• Sir C.R.Reddy High School,Chittoor.
• Little Flower High School, Chittoor.
• VCR Degree College, Chittoor.
• VIGNANA SUDHA DEGREE & PG COLLEGE, Chittoor.
• Sri Harsha E M School, Chittoor
• Devi Bala Mandir High School, Santhapet, Chittoor.
• Sri Balaji English Medium High School, Santhapet, Chittoor.
• Municipal High School, Kattamanchi, Chittoor.
• saadhan high school,r.n.c, Chittoor.
• Lords English Medium School,Kattamanchi, Chittoor.
• Nalanda English Medium School, Kattamanchi, Chittoor.
• Margadarsi English Medium High School
• Maharshi Vidya Mandir, Muthirevula, Puthalapattu Mandal
• Vijayam Educational Institutions, Chittoor.
• Vidyashram English Medium School,Chittoor
• zilla prasad parishad high school,75.Doddipalli,chittoor

'Higher education institutions:'

• P.V.K.N Govt Degree College, Chittoor, 517001 (NAAC Certified B++ Grade)^[4]
• Savithramma Degree College for Women, Chittoor
• Vignana Sudha Degree college, Chittoor
• Vijayam Degree College, Chittoor
• Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering and Technology (SVCET), Chittoor.
• Sri Venkateswara College of Computer Sciences(SVCCS)( MCA & MBA), Chittoor.
• Sreenivasa Institute of Technology and Management Studies (SITAMS), Chittoor^[5]
• SV Arts and Science College, KR palli, chittoor
• VCR Educational institutions, Mittoor, chittoor

Assembly constituency

Chittoor is an assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh. There are 1,74,663 registered voters in Chittoor constituency in 1999 elections.

List of elected members:^[6]

• 1955 - P. Chinnamma Reddy (Indian National Congress)
• 1967 - D. Anjineyulu Naidu (Indian National Congress)
• 1972 - D. Anjineyulu Naidu (Indian National Congress)
• 1978 - N.P.Venkateswara Chowdary
• 1983 - Jhansi Laxmi (Telugu Desam Party)
• 1985 - R. Gopinathan (Indian National Congress)
• 1989 - C K Jayachandra Reddy (C K Babu) (Independent)
• 1994 - C K Jayachandra Reddy (C K Babu) (Indian National Congress)
• 1999 - C K Jayachandra Reddy (C K Babu) (Indian National Congress)
• 2004 - A.S.Manohar (Telugu Desam Party)
• 2009 - C K Jayachandra Reddy (C K Babu) (Indian National Congress)

Parliamentary constituency

List of Elected Members:^[7]

• 1977 - Paturi Rajagopala Naidu (Indian National Congress)
• 1980 - Paturi Rajagopala Naidu(Indian National Congress)
• 1984 - N.P.JHANSI LAKSHMI (Telugu Desam Party)
• 1989 - GNANENDRA REDDY (Indian National Congress)
• 1991 - M. GNANENDRA REDDY (Indian National Congress)
• 1996 - N.RAMAKRISHNA REDDY (Telugu Desam Party)
• 1998 - N.RAMAKRISHNA REDDY (Telugu Desam Party)
• 1999 - N. RAMAKRISHNA REDDY (Telugu Desam Party)
• 2004 - D.K. AADIKESAVULU (Telugu Desam Party)
• 2009 - NARAMALLI SIVA PRASAD (Telugu Desam Party)

Notable personalities from Chittoor district

• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (Former President& Vice president of India) had completed his school education in P.M.high School, near by Gajulamandyam, Renigunta in this district. Before becoming the president he was the Vice Chancellor of Andhra University, Visakhapatnam
• Paturi Rajagopala Naidu Social Activist, Former paralmentarian
• Kattamanchi Ramalinga Reddy, Educationalist, founder & Vice-chancellor of Andhra University, Visakhapatnam
• Galla Aruna Kumari Minister for Mines and Geology
• Jiddu Krishnamurti, World renowned philosopher from Madanapalle town.
• Sri K Sabha, writer, poet
• Madhurantakam Rajaram, writer
• Chittoor Subramaniam Pillai, a Carnatic musician
• Prathap C. Reddy, Chairman of Apollo Hospitals
• Nara Chandrababu Naidu, former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
• Mohan Babu, Tollywood actor (Telugu)
• Rama prabha, Tollywood actress (Telugu)
• Rami reddy, Tollywood actor (Telugu)
• V.Vamsi, Tollywood writer (Telugu)
• Roja Selvamani, Tollywood actress (Telugu)
• Bindu Madhavi, mMdel and Tollywood actress (Telugu)
• Galla Ramachandra Naidu Industralist and philonthraphist
• N.Kiran Kumar Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
• Keshava Reddy, Telugu novelist.
• Priya Sisters[shanmukhapriya & Hari Priya] world renowned carnatic singers
• Dr.vempalli gangadhar,popular story writer,s.v.university scholar.rayalaseema katha sahityam""rayalaseema faction kathalau". see www.vempalligangadhar.com
• C. V. Runganada Sastri
• Chittor V. Nagaiah, Indian Actor
• Medasani Mohan, Indian Avadhani
• Sri Sankarambadi Sundarachari, Writer of Maa Telugu Thalliki song (AP State song)
• K.R. Vijaya's father, Indian Actress
• Leela Naidu, Indian Actress. She was Femina Miss India in 1954, and was featured in the Vogue along with Maharani Gayatri Devi in the list of 'World's Ten Most Beautiful Women' and is remembered for her classical beauty and subtle acting style.
• Pattipati Ramaiah Naidu, Nuclear physicist from Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh. Father of Leela Naidu
• Shobha Raju, Devotional singer of Annamayya songs. She was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of India for her contributions to arts in 2010.
• K. Narayana, CPI State Secretary, AP.
• Dr.Sridhar Mitta, former President, Wipro Technologies

Employment

1. About 33,483 are below poverty line out of a population of 1,52,654.
2. Majority of them are leading their life as daily wage labour, agricultural labour, seasonal labour etc.
3. At present, there are 78 poor settlements in the town, out of which 60 are notified and 18 are non-notified.

References

1. ^ http://www.census2011.co.in/news/75-sex-ratio-of-andhra-pradesh-is-992-per-1000-as-per-census-2011.html
2. ^ Chittor Municipality
3. ^ http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/andhra-pradesh/article2132201.ece
4. ^ http://www.pvkngc.com
5. ^ www.sitams.org
6. ^ Election Commission of India.APAssembly results.1978-2004
7. ^ Election Commission of India. APAssembly results. 1977-2004