Martur

Marturu
—  mandal  —
Marturu Location of Marturu in Andhra Pradesh and India
Coordinates	15°58′00″N 80°06′00″E / 15.9667°N 80.1000°E / 15.9667; 80.1000Coordinates: 15°58′00″N 80°06′00″E / 15.9667°N 80.1000°E / 15.9667; 80.1000
Country	India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District(s)	Prakasam
Subdistrict(s)	Martur
Time zone	IST (UTC+05:30)
Codes • Pincode • 523301

Martur or Maruturu is a village and a Mandal in Prakasam district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India.^[1]

Geography

Martur is located at 15°58′00″N 80°06′00″E / 15.9667°N 80.1000°E / 15.9667; 80.1000.^[2] It has an average elevation of 30 meters (101 feet). Many people come here for work. More than 150 Granite factories are available which give work to over 6,000 laborers. There are Tobacco factories, Granite Factories, Spinning mills and Steel factory which give emplyoment to over 10,000 laborers and technical engineers. This village pays the highest power bill for its usage. People from Orissa and Rajasthan come here for work. Simply we can say it is a mini India. Apart from this, Martur has its own identity in education by having two Degree-awarding colleges, four Intermediate colleges including one government college and five schools including one government school which has sent many people all over the world.

When it comes to devotional activities, you can find many famous temples here. Gatteswarasami Temple (Shivalaya) is one of the famous and oldest (400 years back) temples in martur.Many people come to this Shivalaya, especially in Karthika Masam. Apart from this we can find, Sai Baba Temple near Boddu Rai centre, Someswaralayam (Shivalaya), Chennkesava Temple (Visnayalayam), Hanuman Temple, Vasavi Kanyaka paramesawari temple in Nagarajupalli center and Vinayakudu gudi (Ganesh Temple) KanakaDurgamma temple, Ramalayam.

Also the people in martur planned for a Kalyana mandapam and collected huge amount of money for the sake of construction. The construction started and in between there are obstacles from the government stating that the land belongs to the Government.There are political dramas behind the obstacles. So lets wait and see whether the Kalyanamandam is going to be constructed or not in the near future. All the best for the people who wish to construct it. Leaders please open your eyes as this property belong to the martur people, please dont stop the development of the town. recently one mandapam completed and two in constructing process.we hope they will ready quickly in future. With in few years Martur will become a Multinational city.

Industries

The following are the list of Industries available in martur.

Tobacco Industries

Cotton Yarn and Cotton Fabrics

Agri Business and Food Processing

Iron Manufactures

200 granite polishing units

Assembly Constituency

Martur is an assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh. There are 1,61,988 registered voters in Martur constituency in 1999 elections.

List of Elected Members:^[3]

Member	Year	TDP	INC
Jagarlamudi Chandramouli	1978		INC
Gottipati Hanumantha Rao	1983	TDP
Gottipati Hanumantha Rao	1985	TDP
Karanam Balarama Krishna Murthy	1989	TDP
Gottipati Narasaiah	1999	TDP
Gottipati Ravi Kumar	2004		INC
Daggupati Venkateswara Rao	2009		INC
Tottempudi Apparao, East Bazar, Martur	2014	TDP

• In 2008 Assembly Constitutions' review committee canceled this Constituency. Some part is merged into PARCHURU and remaining into ADDANKI

References

1. ^ "List of Sub-Districts". Census of India. http://www.censusindia.gov.in/. Retrieved 2007-04-27. 
2. ^ Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Maruturu
3. ^ Election Commission of India.AP Assembly results.1978-2004