Gudur, Nellore district

Gudur
Town
Gudur
Location in Andhra Pradesh, India
Coordinates: 14°08′50″N 79°50′52″E / 14.14733°N 79.84771°E / 14.14733; 79.84771Coordinates: 14°08′50″N 79°50′52″E / 14.14733°N 79.84771°E / 14.14733; 79.84771
Country India
State Andhra Pradesh
Area[1]
 • Total 9.42 km2 (3.64 sq mi)
Population (2015)[2]
 • Total 107,325
 • Density 11,000/km2 (30,000/sq mi)
Languages
 • Official Telugu
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN 524 101
Telephone code +91–8624
Vehicle registration AP–26
Sex ratio 1:1(approx) ♂/♀
Website Gudur Municipality

Gudur is a town in Nellore district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is a municipality and the headquarters of Gudur mandal and Gudur revenue division.[3][4]

Demographics

As of 2011 census of India, the town had a population of 60,625. The total population constitute, 29,786 males, 30,839 females and 5,672 children, in the age group of 0–6 years. The average literacy rate stands at 74.06% with 44,901 literates, slightly higher than the national average of 73.00%.[5]

Geography

Climate

The climate here is tropical. The summers here have a good deal of rainfall, while the winters have very little. This location is classified as Aw by Köppen and Geiger. In Gudur, the average annual temperature is 29.2 °C. About 1025 mm of precipitation falls annually.[6]

Governance

Civic administration

The municipality was established in the year 1954. Its jurisdictional area covers 9.14 km2 (3.53 sq mi).[1] The urban agglomeration of the town consists of Gudur municipality and its out growths. The out growths include Guduru (east), Guduru (west), Chennuru–II, Nellatur, Chillakur.[7]

Politics

Gudur is a part of Gudur (SC) (Assembly constituency) for Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Pasim Sunil Kumar is the present MLA of the constituency from TDP (recently joined back). In 8 April 2016 he is joined in TDP without resign from YSR Congress Party.[8] It is also a part of Tirupati (Lok Sabha constituency).[9][10] P.Gopinath is the municipal commissioner of the city[11] and Ponaka Devasena is the Municipal Chair Person.

Transport

Gudur Junction railway station

National Highway 16 passes through the town, which connects Kolkata and Chennai. The Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation operates bus services from Gudur bus station.[12] Gudur Junction is a major railway junction, which connects Howrah-Chennai main line and Renigunta branch line. It is classified as an A–category station and recognised as an Adarsh station in the Vijayawada railway division of South Central Railway zone.[13]

Education

The primary and secondary school education is imparted by government, aided and private schools, under the School Education Department of the state.[14][15] The medium of instruction followed by different schools are Telugu and English.

Business

Gudur lemon business

Lemon business is the most unbeaten business in the Gudur. Gudur's lemon market is one of the big lemon markets in Andhra Pradesh. The lemon market is located at Gudur 2 town on the way of Chennur. Gudur and the surrounding villages' farmers mostly prefer to farm lemon trees. They export lemons around the country and also to other countries. Usually lemon sales are in two ways in Gudur, i.e Pieces and Bundles (contains more than 1000 lb). And when we talk about price, it is totally based on the season and demand. It varies from day to day.

Mica

Mica is the 2nd successful business in Gudur.

Mica Belts around Gudur considers as 2nd biggest in India. Mica belts covering nearly 1000sp. km around Gudur. The following are the types of Mica found in Gudur i.e. Quartz, Feldspar, Muscovite and Vermiculite.

One of the first firms to start mica trading at a large scale was Laxmi Mica Industries - Gudur under the leadership of Late Sri Lal Khatuwala (http://khatuwalagroup.com/). The largest deposit of Mica in India was at Koderma, Jharkhand. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodarma) and second largest was at Gudur. At a time when there was 19 mica mines, Laxmi Mica Industries was having contract to outright purchase all the stocks from 18 mines. The two firms Birdhichand Bansidhar and Laxmi Mica Industries were the largest mica export companies of India.

Some of the other mica firms were: Micamin Exports - Gudur Premier Mica Company - Gudur Microfine Mica Company - Gudur Micafab - Gudur Krishna Mica Company - Gudur Yashoda Krishna Mica Mining Co. - Gudur Venkatagiri Raja Mining Co. - Gudur KHR Mica company - Gudur

Aquaculture

Aquaculture is also one of the successful business in Gudur, There are many Prawn Ponds are located around Gudur. Usually two main types of prawn forms being done, those are Scampi and Tiger Prawns, water and weather in this area are suitable to mainly these two types. Prawn exports around India and also some other countries from Gudur

References

  1. 1 2 "Basic Information of Municipality". Municipal Administration & Urban Development Department. Government of Andhra Pradesh. Archived from the original on 7 July 2012. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "Census 2011". The Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
  3. ↑ "Revenue Setup". Official website of Sri Potti Sri Ramulu Nellore District. National Informatics Centre. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  4. ↑ "Guntur District Mandals" (PDF). Census of India. p. 234. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "Chapter–3 (Literates and Literacy rate)" (PDF). Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
  6. ↑ "Climate: Gudur – Temperature, Climate graph, Climate table – Climate-Data.org". en.climate-data.org. Retrieved 2016-11-10.
  7. ↑ "List of Urban Agglomerations and their Constituent Units – 2011" (PDF). Census of India. p. 24. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  8. ↑ "MLA". AP State Portal. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  9. ↑ "MP (Lok Sabha)". Government of AP. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
  10. ↑ "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (pdf). Election Commission of India. p. 22,31. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  11. ↑ "Municipality commissioner". Commissioner & Director of Municipal Administration. Government of Andhra Pradesh. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  12. ↑ "Bus Stations in Districts". Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  13. ↑ "Vijayawada Division – a profile" (PDF). Indian Railways. Retrieved 2013-02-13.
  14. ↑ "School Education Department" (PDF). School Education Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 December 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  15. ↑ "The Department of School Education – Official AP State Government Portal | AP State Portal". www.ap.gov.in. Archived from the original on 7 November 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
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