Nellore

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Nellore District Map

Nellore pronunciation^ⓘ city is the headquarters of Nellore District, the southernmost coastal district in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. The population of the city is 378,947 (agglomeration 404,922) (2001 census). According to 2004 assembly election census Nellore population has increased upto 7 lakhs due to immigration of people from many other areas.It is situated in the south east corner of Andhra Pradesh, on the south and north banks of the River Pennar (also spelled Penna or Penneru).

The area of the district is 13,076 km². The district is bounded by the Bay of Bengal to the east, the district of Cuddapah to the west, the district of Prakasam to the north and the state of Tamil Nadu to the south.

History

Nellore district formed part of the composite Madras State until 1 October, 1953. On 1 November, 1956, when the states were reorganised on a linguistic basis, this district came under Andhra Pradesh. The city of Nellore attained the status of a Municipal Corporation in 2004.

Nellore was also known as Vikramasimhapuri. The city derives its name from the Tamil word for rice paddy, Nellu and since the areas surrounding Nellore are fertile and dominated by rice paddies, the city got the name Nellore. Historically, the place is very important. Culturally, Nellore city stands unique among the other towns of Andhra Pradesh as it is supposed to be the place where the greatest of the Telugu poets, Tikkana Somayaji, who translated the major part of Mahabharata into Telugu, lived here. He is believed to be one of the minsters at Simhapuri then ruled by Manumasiddhi and used his skills to get political help from Kakatiya dynasty.

It also has major role in recent state history. Potti Sriramulu, Telugu patriot and activist, who fasted to death for the formation of Andhra state within the Indian Union was from Nellore. Nellore also has strategic commercial importance as it lies between the cities of Vijayawada and Chennai.

Trivia

Nellore is famous for paddy cultivation.It is also known for aquaculture along the Bay of Bengal.It is called the cradle of Indian aquaculture. Flamingo Festival is celebrated in this district's famous bird sanctuary at Nelapattu. There are places of historical importance like Udayagiri fort, Narasimha Konda,Penchala kona,Venkatagiri fort,Mypadu beach,kothakoduru beach and Krishnapatnam port. Famous rocket launching station, Satish Dhawan Space Research Station, SHAR (Sri Harikota Aeronautic Range), is located in Sriharikota of this district. Three major cities in the district are Nellore, Kavali, and Gudur.

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The Leelamahal Theatre road opposite the landmark Venkatagiri Raja College(VRC) flooded by rain water

On other hand Nellore also has got dubious distinction of poverty in plenty. In summer people have to run pillar to post to get 1 bucket of potable water. The problem is perennial in most parts of the district. Mindless aqua culture lead to hard water usage even within the town. The nellore town planning is haphazard and never ending growth is adding further difficuties. The real estate thrives along national high way,though actually its not desirable to built a home near express high ways, where entry is restricted.

Current Position

Nellore city these days expanded enormously.Proximity to the sea as well as its central location in this agricultural heartland has helped Nellore to grow as a city.It offers the visitor a few good religious sites like temples to visit as well as a pristine beach,Kotha Koduru nearby.Also it is famous for rice and aqua (prawn and fish) culture. Nellore is an important center for products such as cotton,lemon and oilseeds. A main railway line passes through and national highway number 5 serves the city. The nearest international and domestic airport is about 170 km south(Chennai).A propasal is on air to setup a new airport to connect to cities like Hyderabad and Vishakapatnam which lie at other end of Andhrapradesh.But God knows when it will come into the existence!To talk about real hard facts,Nellore town has not witnessed laying of drainage system for past 25 years while population outstripped it.This has caused some what dubious distinction of arthropoda outsmarting homo sapiens within the town! Yearlong, people suffer from countless mosquito bites.House flies infest day and night.Town roads are guarded by pigs and garlanded by mosquitoes and houseflies.People have to vade through waterlogged roads in rains and drainage water clogged roads in summer. Leptospirosis is endemic interspersed by seasonal epidemic of Japanese encephalitis. Malaria, filaria,chicken gunya and enteric fevers are quite common. Hospitals are choked to full throughout the year. With poor maintenance of town roads, one can expect traffic jams and has to resort to circus feats to get away. Air is full of dust leading to respiratory problems. People lack sanitation awareness and often throw garbage from home on roads. One survey found that children and old people are the most silent sufferers with malnutrition confounded by communicable diseases.Though the district experiences the typical climate of the region, it is frequently affected by droughts,cyclones and floods damaging the crops and aquaculture.

People

Nellore people love it for many reasons, one of them being culture and nature and nostalgia. Though many make fun of rural Nellore telugu accent,almost every one likes Nelloreans for their lavishness.Most are Happy-go-lucky and take-it-easy types, and there are enough who are highly ambitious and hard working.These people make Nellore a much spoken about place. Nelloreans in general are respected in other places worldwide.Residents of nellore are friendly and supportive. They offer food and water to needy even if the person is a stranger. In earlier times they used to give even shelter,but as it become risky now a days,the practice is stopped. There is lot of influence of Tamil culture,on the way people dress,behave and spend their active and leisure timings,though they themselves have a distinct flavour.House wives pay visit to nearby temple in evenings.Men like to watch a movie.People do not hesitate to spend money for personal things and derive pleasure in getting the attention of others by 'showing' belongings.They like to discuss when an air port would be built,where actually there is dearth of basic ameneties like sanitation,drainage system,non erratic power suppy and potable water.Men aged between 18-40 years spend evening times hanging around shops selling mobile phones,busy knowing latest models and prices and service providers with lowest rates.

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== NEW NELLORE ==

Nellore now a days is the center of attraction as a place for most industrial development after hyderabad and vizag. So many industries are coming up in the district. Leather, textile, power plants, port/harbor etc etc. Nellore city itself is growing pretty fast. Apartments have sprung up in every nook and corner of the city. The richest area-Magunta layout and its surroundings have really seen an apartment boom. Atleast 50-60 apartments were built only in that area and its periphery in the past two-three years. Pavani builders have built atleast 15 out of them. All of them look very elegant but also might have compromised to some extent when it comes to basic amenities provided for the residents. Mall fever has caught up equally on par with the metros. Chandana bros and CMR exclusive has won the heart of Nelloreans and recently Kandukuri mall joined the foray. Couple others are on their way. In coming 2-3 years it is certain that Nellore will totally have a good look. Land prices are going up everywhere and recently very famous people are buying lands in Nellore district. People like Sachin Tendulkar, Gopichand and several cine actors are buying land.

Education

Nellore has been famous in the state from 1985,for its coaching institutions catering to various streams at the level of plus 2(popularly known as intermdiate education).Notable among them are Narayana and Ratnam. Narayana also runs a medical College,a dental College and an engineering College.Till later half of 1990s,an institution ran by Mr.Kodandaramayya(popularly nicknamed 'KORA') was famous in getting more number of students into medical field.After his downfall,Ratnam group gained top spot in educating for EAMCET,medical stream.All three,Mr.Ratnam,Mr.KORA,Mr.Narayana were employees(1980s) of VR College,Nellore.Mr.Narayana murthy,senior among all also had a separate coaching centre until middle of 1990s.Narayana was also the student of Mr.Narayana murthy.In addition,number of colleges and educational institutes are invogue. They 'coach'the students preparing for various entrance examinations. The term 'Education' has acquired a different meaning here.Student is stuffed with 'study material' and long hours of 'study hours' leaving very little scope to think and assimilate the subject.Many are just 'echo boards' and not able to justify the ranks they secure.At present,there are almost 100 such coaching centers and residential schools and colleges in various fields.

Educational institutions

A few ancient colleges which have contributed education to Nellore are :

• Veda and Sanskrit college - The theosophist refers to visit of Dr.Annie besant and establishment of vedic school which later became a college
• Venkatagiri Raja's College (VRC)and high school
• Sarvodaya College
• Dodala Kousalyamma Women's College (DKW)
• St.Peters school
• St.Johns school
• St.Joseph's English Medium High School
• Infant Jesus Public School

Veda and Sanskrit college and V.R. College are the oldest educational instituion in Nellore town. The next to be founded was DKW College for women. They were originally affiliated to Madras University or Andhra University, now the colleges have become part of S.V. University.Next college that came into existence was Sarvodaya college,opposite to RTC Bus stand. Others are

• KAC Govt. Junior College
• Srinivasa Degree College
• Venugopala swamy College

On other hand providing educational facilities to rural areas is largely confined to shelves of the Andhrapradesh Government. As of 2006 Srinivasa Degree College is the only degree level college to be set up in Kovur mandal since India's Independence in 1947. The college is providing good educational facilities to the local population and made a mark for itself in computer training.

Hospitals

Nellore has distinction of highest density of health providers in India at one place.Pogathota and surrounding areas have almost 500 private hospitals.Most of them are busy, thanks to poor sanitation of the district especially within the town.With hectic competition,many clinics resort to heavy and unsolicited advertisements in local cable TV channels.For want of recognition some arrange 'free' health camps in near by towns and villages in arrangement with local "quacks".One private medical college arranges to and fro free transport on daily basis for want of patients.Some MBBS graduates put up boards claiming having non- existent and not recognized qualifications like MDRC,Dip in Diabetology to cash on current epidemic of diabetes causing long-term damage to patients.Poorly trained MBBS,postgraduate diploma,MD or MS degree holders with lack of quality CME,present bleak picture.One can see some with framed(fake) certificates like DcGO,Dch Ireland,Australia,London,Yugoslavia,FACS,FAGS,FAMS,FICS,FAGE,MB(and what not!)hoodwinking the sick.Some MBBS doctors who did non-clinical degree like MD(Biochemistry) practice as 'Endocrinologists'and master physicians(not letting the biochemistry name on the display board).Every tree and pole carrying electricity wires in town bears at least one advertisement board of a clinic/hospital.If doctors attend any medical education programme at a hotel,they prefer food/liquor served,rather than analysing what they heard.Most have lost the habit of reading and updating the knowledge,a reflection of poor standards,when medicine is an ever changing and progressive science.The real sufferer is the common man who has to spend a lot on unnecessary investigations and procedures.Pediatric hospitals especially are notorious for cashing on parents' anxiety projecting common ailments as life threatening.Surgical specialists(including orthopedics)overcharge minor procedures.Caeserian section is 'quite popular'.Chest specialists indiscriminately use steroids,negelcting their longterm side-effects.Some superspecialists cash on their qualification and never practice the full potential they assume.To conclude the medical fraternity of nellore town is far from the humanity.

Some well known and credited (list is not exhaustive) medical services within the town are listed below.

• Jakka Sujathamma Cancer Center (Dargamitta)
• Narayana Multi superspecialty Hospital (Chintareddypaelm)
• DSR Govt. General Hospital (Dargamitta )
• Peoples Poly Clinic(Previous name:Ramachandrareddy hospital)
• Jayabharath Hospital
• St.John's hospital
• Bollineni Hospital (Dargamitta)
• Indian redcross society
• ABM HOSPITAL(American Baptist Hospital,opp taluq office)
• Sri Saikrupa Diabetes Care & Reaserch Institute ( Dr. B. Suresh Babu Yadav )
• Vijaya Superspecialty hospital

Dignitaries

• Kavi Tikkana - of kavitrayam
• Molla - allegedly first telugu poetess/writer
• Acharya Atreya - Story/Song writer
• S P Balasubrahmanyam - Singer and actor
• Potti Sriramulu - Martyr
• Puchalapalli Sundaraiah-Communist
• VT Venkataram -( Famous Consumer movement Activist)
• A C Subba reddy- ex minister and grand old politician
• Rebala laxminarasa reddy -(town hall and paediatric hospital are his gifts to nellore)
• Mahbub khan- first muslim chairman of nellore muncipality and whose fleet of buses called NMS was biggest in 1940 and 50s
• Md.Ansari Saheb-a public prosecutor and judge of delhi high court and chairman of National Minorities council

• ==Nellore mandals==

Nellore district is divided into the following Mandals:

• Allur
• Ananthasagaram
• Anumasamudrampeta
• Atmakur
• Balayapalle
• Bhogolu
• Buchireddipalem
• Chejerla
• Chillakur
• Chittamur
• Dagadarthi
• Dakkili
• Doravarisatram
• Duttalur
• Gudur
• Indukurpet
• Jaladanki
• Kaligiri
• Kaluvoya
• Kavali
• Kodavalur
• Kondapuram
• Kota
• Kovur
• Manubolu
• Marripadu
• Muthukur
• Naidupeta
• Nellore
• Ojili
• Pellakur
• Podlakur
• Rapur
• Seetharamapuram
• Sangam
• Somasila
• Sullurpeta
• Sydapuram
• Tada
• Thotapalligudur
• Udayagiri
• Vakadu
• Varikuntapadu
• Venkatachalam
• Vinjamur
• Venkatagiri
• Vidavalur

Note: The above lists are not comprehensive.

Major industries

• Kovur Thermal Power Plant ( defunct)
• Nellore Nippo Battery factory
• Acqua and fisheries throughout the district
• Mica Mines in Gudur and Sydapuram mandals
• Apache Foot Industry (Tada Mandal)
• Kovur Sugar Factory
• Textile parks (Naidupet and Gudur Mandals)
• Leather park (Krishnapatnam)
• Mega power projects (Krishnapatnam)
• Krishnapatnam port

Museums

• Nellore District Museum (Saraswathi Nagar, Besides Magunta's residence)

MALLS

• CMR Exclusive Mall (Trunk Road, Nellore)
• Kandukuri Shopping Mall (Near RTC bustand, Nellore)

Temples

• Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple (Nellore)
• Sri Venugopalaswamy Temple (Nellore)
• Sri Rajarajeswari Temple (Nellore)
• Sri Shirdisai Temple (Nellore)
• Sri Rama Shektram Temple (Nellore)
• Sri Ayyappa swamy Temple (Nellore)
• Sri Mahaveer Jain Temple (Nellore)
• Moolasthaneswara Temple (Nellore)

Shopping/Entertainment/Parks

• Trunk Road, Chinna bazar/Big Bazar, Kapu street, Santhapet and Gandhi Center(Shoppers Paradise)
• Nellore Lake(Nellore cheruvu,podalakur road):

 Ph:0861-2306089 
 Charges per person      Adult    Child
 1.Deluxe boat/25 seater Rs.20/- Rs. 15/- 
 2.Pedal Boat 20 minutes  Rs.10/- 
 3.Speed Boat 4 persons, 6 min trip Rs.120/- 
 Facilities:Pedal Boats,Speed Boats,Deluxe Boats and a nice river side Restaurant 

• Cinema halls (Many AC theatres. Best in the state)
• Children's Park (Nellore)
• Tikkana Park (Nellore)
• Gandhi Park (Nellore)
• Pulicat lake
• Sriharikota, SHAR - famous rocket launching centre
• Somasila Project(On Pennar River)

• Krishnapatnam port (http://www.krishnapatnam.com)
• Udayagiri fort
• Narasimha Konda (near Nellore)
• Penchala kona(near by town:Rapur)
• Venkatagiri fort
• Mypadu beach(via indukurupeta)
• Kotha kodur beach(via totapalligudur)

• Jonna wada,near Buchireddypalem
• Golagamudi(via kondayapalem)
• Kasumuru Dargaah (A Peer sahib (muslim saint)'s place considered major piligrim place)
• Baarah Shahid Dargaah ( A place where muslim martyrs fell - supposedly from Crusade wars Baarah - twelve , shahid - martyr )

External links

• link title-operated by district news paper Zaminryot
• Nellore Website
• NelloreTimes Website
• GIPS Website
• http://www.lawyerteluguweekly.com
• http://www.nellorenrihomes.com
• http://www.nelloregreenmedows.com
• http://www.lawyerteluguweekly.com/templetown/
• http://www.krishnapatnam.com
• http://www.greatnellore.com
• http://www.pavanihomes.com