Appapuram, Nadendla mandal

Street Fireworks

Telugu is the main language of communication here.

Festivals celebrated are Maha Shivaratri, Sankranthi, Dipavali (Diwali), Dasara (Vijayadasami), Sriramanavami, Vinayaka Chavithi (Ganesh chaturthi), Ramjaan (Ramadan), Karthika Pournami, Christmas etc.

The lifestyle is a mixture of both town and rural but with little cosmopolitan element. The common traditional clothing for women is a Saree, Salwar and for men formally, a Dhovathi or Pancha.

• Farm lands

The village has a very fertile land in the region. Chillies, Cotoon, Paddy tobacco and other crops grow here very well.

Common modes of road transport here are cars, motorcycles, buses, and auto-rickshaws; The village is connected very well to Guntur, Vijayawada and Ongole by road. The place is around 8 km off the National Highway no. 5 (Kolkata - Chennai).this village placed at chilakaluripet to narasarao pet route.8 km to chilakaluript and 20 km to narasarao pet.

If you want to see Appapuram in google maps, Pls search for "Appapuram nadendla" or "Appapuram 522611". If you try just Appapuram, we are unnecessarily making the other Appapuram more popular on Google maps.

Someone please make the necessary contribution to make our place popular on Google maps. by adding more details and places like library, Panchayat office etc. to the map, and marking them as inside "Appapuram, Andhrapradesh". Thank you for that.

The nearest railway station is Narasarao pet. The place is around 20 km from the railway line connecting Kolkata and Chennai.

The nearest Airport is Gannavaram, Vijayawada.

Appapuram Development trust (ADT) an NGO is going to be initiated in 2012 to take care of the development activities.

APPAPURAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST (ADT) is a non-profit Organization working for the upliftment of poor and most marginalized communities in the rural and urban regions. The objective of the organization is to work for facilitating the poor to become aware of social entitlements and collective action towards improvement of their livelihood and basic amenities. The main focus would be on the infrastructure development activities in rural areas and financial aid to the poor students.

There was a meeting (#0) with around 40 people at Upper primary school, Appapuram about the proposed Appapuram development Trust on 14 January 2012. There was a good discussion and selection of few proposed members.

Trust is for those having properties / lands. As ours a charitable group with no such Assets, we proposed to register that as a Society and not as a Trust[ Appapuram Development Society ].

As development societies with place names are registered for central government, the registration of Proposed Appapuram Development Society had to be done with a different name, We have tried registering it as Yuva Chaithanya. However, only those with less than 30 years of age can be members.

So we had to finally make it "Chaitanya Development Society, Appapuram" on 21 April 2012. Unofficially known as ADS ( Appapuram Development society, to all of us).

A bank current account in the name of "Chaitanya village development Society" has been opened on 17 May 2012 with Indian bank, Chilakaluripet.

The money collected through Chaitanya development society, Rs. 2,50,000 was given to improve the drinking water supply system of our village. We helped lay a new road, by contributing Rs. 15000 We have provided belts and badges to the upper primary school children spending Rs. 5000 We have also contributed to the other social welfare activities, in small amounts.

Invited Shri V V Lakshminarayana garu to Appapuram through ADS, in September 2018 to discuss with Students and Farmers.

We have organized a Medical camp with the help of Shri Ramakotaiah Childrens hospital, Guntur, in Dec 2018.

Medical camp at Appapuram, Dec 2018

We have sprayed Mosquito repellent in our village few times on our own and followed up with Panchayati few other times.

Celebrated the Gandhi Jayanti by practicing Swacha bharat in our village.

Setup the sign boards to our village near the main road in Feb 2019.

Had another meeting with VV Lakshminarayana IPS garu on 3rd May, 2020 and taken his inputs on going forward with our ADS activities. ADS Summary - April 2020

During Covid - 19 season, we have distributed some food items to some Old age homes and Orphanages. Pictures below.