Chintalapalem
| Chintalapalem | |
|---|---|
| Village | |
| Nickname(s): C Palem | |
  Chintalapalem Location in Andhra Pradesh, India  Chintalapalem Chintalapalem (India) | |
| Coordinates: 14°25′24″N 79°21′48″E / 14.4232387°N 79.3634517°ECoordinates: 14°25′24″N 79°21′48″E / 14.4232387°N 79.3634517°E | |
| Country |
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| State | Andhra Pradesh |
| District | Nellore |
| Population | |
| • Total | 800 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Telugu |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| Website | www.chintalapalem.com |
Chintalapalem is a village located beside Gattupalli village, Jaladhanki Mandal in Nellore district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India.
Etymology
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History
Village is a place where the identity of a person is based upon. The name of our village is Chintalapalem. The area of our village is about 22 hectares. We have 800 population and 500 houses in our village. our villagers depend on agriculture to earn their livelihood. Besides, there are doctors, teachers, businessmen,engineers, expatriates and people of other professionals. There are Educational schools in our village. The communication system with the district town is well in our village. we are really proud of our village.
We have the heritage temple Ramalayam, Barahmamgari temple, Masjid and Church for providing spiritual peace for various religions and various castes. We all follow unity in differentiation strictly in our village. Among this Ramalayam is most heritage temple constructed in 1913. In this Alayam we have Panchaloha vigrahas of Sri Rama,Sita & Lakshmana which we use for regular spiritual events like Srirama kalyanam and others. We also have Anjaneya & Garuda vahanams to use for this events. Though we have all other facilities, we have only stone as Rama, Sita & Lakshmana in main temple and space inside the temple is not even accessible to pujari to perform daily puja .
We have 2500 acres of agriculture land and 700 acres of storage tank to store rain water for agriculture usage. Around 1000 archers are Paddy fields and balance are filled with mango gardens and other temporary business crops. Apart from the agriculture the main income comes from business for the village. Our main business is Cattle business which is heritage business from last 100 years. Recently we also entered into Tarpal and cool drink business spread all across Telangana, Rayalaseema & Karnataka. The turnover of the business expected 50 crores per Annam. Head of family spend six months’ time out of the village every year. We have employment in each 2 family’s one person servicing in private and government sectors across the world. We also have dairy form dependent families who produce the milk 500 liters every day. This has become main income source to some families.
Our village has the facilities of Primary & Secondary Schools, Veterinary hospital & Government bank providing services from last 50 years not only for our village as well as 5 surrounding villages. We use to have big stone hill which fulfilled the crusher stone requirement to all surrounding areas from last 75 years and it has been utilized maximum level. Hence the slowly the rock has been disappeared recently. Our village has strong political back history which influenced the Nellore district politics from 1970 to 2000. Late Mr. Gottipati Kondapanaidu elected as MLA from our village in 1972 to 1978 as an independent. We all feel proud of this moment and always motivates to be active participants in politics. Our High school produced so many Bureaucrats to service our country. We also have NRIs who settled in abroad.
Geography
It is also located near Kavali which is the nearest town to the village. We are 210 km away from Chennai and Tirumala which is Lord Venkateswara home.
Festivals
We celebrate three major festivals:
Vinayaka Chavithi
Ganesh Chaturthi is a three-day Hindu festival celebrated to honour the elephant-headed God Ganesha's birthday. He is the younger son of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati. Ganesha is known by 108 different names and is the Lord of arts and sciences and the deva of wisdom. He is honoured at the start of rituals and ceremonies as he's considered the God of beginnings. He's widely and dearly referred to as Ganapati or Vinayaka. There are two different versions about Ganesha's birth. One has it that Goddess Parvati created Ganesha out of dirt off her body while having a bath and set him to guard her door while she finishes her bath. Shiva who has gone out, returned at that time, but as Ganesha didn't know of him, stopped him from entering. An angry Shiva severed the head of Ganesha after a combat between the two. Parvati was enraged and Shiva promised Ganesha will live again. The devas who went in search of a head facing north of a dead person could manage only the head of an elephant. Shiva fixed the elephant's head on the child and brought him back to life. The other legend has it that Ganesha was created by Shiva and Parvati on request of the Devas, to be a vighnakartaa (obstacle-creator) in the path of rakshasas (demonic beings), and a vighnahartaa (obstacle-averter) to help the Devas.
SriRama Navami
Sri Rama Navami is a hindu festival celebrated to commemorate the birth of Lord Rama. He is the seventh incarnation of Lord Vishnu in the treta yuga. Lord Vishnu incarnated as Lord Rama to destroy the invincible demon king, Ravana who created immense trouble to people on earth and heaven.
Pongal(Sankranthi)
Pongal is a four-days-long harvest festival celebrated in Tamil Nadu, a southern state of India. For as long as people have been planting and gathering food, there has been some form of harvest festival. Pongal, one of the most important popular Hindu festivals of the year. This four-day festival of thanksgiving to nature takes its name from the Tamil word meaning "to boil" and is held in the month of Thai (January-February) during the season when rice and other cereals, sugar-cane, and turmeric (an essential ingredient in Tamil cooking) are harvested.
Education
We have Zilla Parshid High School and Mandala Prashid School.
References
- ↑ "List of Sub-Districts". Census of India. Retrieved 2007-03-26.