Pedakurapadu

Infobox Indian Jurisdiction
native_name = Pedakurapadu
type = village
locator_position =
latd = 16.4833
longd = 80.2667
population_total =
state_name = Andhra Pradesh
district = Guntur
taluk_names = Pedakurapadu
area_telephone = 91-8640
postal_code = 522402
footnotes =

Pedakurapadu is a village and a mandal in Guntur district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. This is the biggest assembly consistency in area wise in guntur district. Initially the people of surname Kurapati were migrated to this place, so this village was got named with their surname. Pedakurapadu has fifteen thousand population including Chowdaries, Arya Vysyas, BC, SC, ST and Muslims living together. Pedakurapadu was the major panchayathi having the facilities like water supply, lower primary school, upper primary school, 30-bed government hospital, petrol bunk, bus station and railway station . Here most of them depend on cultivation. the big asset of the village are hard working farmers and daily labors produce good quality of rice and chillies. From last one decade many were become professionally educated and been well settled in IT and other related sectors.

The education system in the village day by day strengthening and students are getting quality education with lot of opportunities. [cite web
url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/
title=List of Sub-Districts
publisher=Census of India
accessdate=2007-04-27 ]

Geography

Pedakurapadu is located at coord|16.4833|N|80.2667|E|. [ [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IN/2/Peddakurapadu.html Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Peddakurapadu] ] .

Panchayats

There are 20 village panchayats in this mandal.75-Tyallur is the largest village in this mandal.

Mussapuram is one of the village in this Mandal. The name has been derived from the Mussapurians. Mussapurians are basically sculptures. They halted at one place while travelling from Ponnuru to Amaravathi during the time of Buddha. That day onwards the place is called as Mussapuram.

References

Patibandla is a village and a panchayat as well in this mandal. This village is famous for cultivation, education and culture as well. Here, the main occupation is cultivation. Most of the population is Roman Catholics. All are converted into Christianity at about 120 years back.Here, Reddies are Catholics and land lords. From this village, many people are well educated especially and doing jobs IT. Most of the religious people like fathers, sisters and even Bishop of Guntur Diocese are from this village only. They are always stand first for the social service.

Long back, these people had migrated from Tachchur, TamilNadu. They stayed in Krishnapurm, Anathapuram for some years. They again migrated from Krishnapuram to Patibandla(Patibanda) near Gutur. These people are very hardworking and well mannered. The main attraction for the village is Epiphany church. It was built in 1925. This village has Corporation bank, Post office, Telephone exchange and good road facility to connect to Guntur and Sattenapalli(Pedakurapadu). These people live like a family.

Many casta are here SCs, STs and Muslims. All SCs are catholics only. These main occupation is daily labour and some of them are doing jobs.