Amudalavalasa is a 3rd Grade Municipality

Municipality

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 and a Mandal headquarters in Srikakulam district

Srikakulam district

Srikakulam District , formerly known as Chicacole, is the extreme northeastern District of Andhra Pradesh, situated within the geographic co-ordinates of 18°-20’ and 19°-10’ N and 83°-50’ and 84°-50’ E...

  in the state of Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh , is one of the 28 states of India, situated on the southeastern coast of India. It is India's fourth largest state by area and fifth largest by population. Its capital and largest city by population is Hyderabad.The total GDP of Andhra Pradesh is $100 billion and is ranked third...

, India

India

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. It is 13 kilometres far from Srikakulam

Srikakulam

Srikakulam is a town, municipality and headquarters of Srikakulam district in the north-eastern Andhra Pradesh, India. It is part of Srikakulam Assembly constituency and Srikakulam Parliament Constituency. Srikakulam was formerly called as Gulshanabad during Muslim rule and was headquarter of...

 town. Amadalavalasa Municipal administration is under the jurisdiction of the Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority (VUDA).

'Srikakulam Road' railway station ('A' Class) is located at Amadalavalasa. Older name of this station is Chicacole Road, which have occurred since the 1930s. This station is one of the railway stations with highest revenue in Waltair division of East Coast Railway Zone. City busses are available from railway station to Srikakulam RTC Complex and Old Bus Stand for every 5 minutes.

Geography

Amadalavalasa is located at 18.4167°N 83.9000°E. It has an average elevation of 29 meters (98 feet).

History

Amadalavalasa means 'the town of Castor oil

Castor oil

Castor oil is a vegetable oil obtained from the castor bean . Castor oil is a colorless to very pale yellow liquid with mild or no odor or taste. Its boiling point is and its density is 961 kg/m3...

'. During the historic period, i.e. during the times of Ashoka, this place was called 'Herandapalli'. Heranda in Sanskrit means Castor oil. Ironically, now one can not find any castor oil plants being grown or castor oil being produced in this place. It was a Buddhist site. The Sangamayya Hill,3 km from Amadalavalasa was actually a Buddhist shrine where, a religious fare is being celebrated during Makara Sankranthi days now.

Danthapuri is one of the historical places near Amadalavalasa. This village is situated in between Amadalavalasa and Hiramandalam . Ancient Buddha stupas are present in this place. It is believed to be a place of Buddha religion and a shiddharda's living place.there exists an important archeological place, called Boudha Gynana dantha puri, where the archeological department found some bricks, pots, nabed wear, terracotta articles, bangles, beads, stone and iron articles. It is elevated in the BC 261 after Kalinga battle by Ashoka Chakravarthi. Kalinga rajas treated as capital of their region. The Boudha Gynana dantha were collected and presented by Arhat Kheru Terudu to Brahmadatta Raja of Kalinga. Brahma Datta Kalinga Raja constructed a monument on Boudha Gyana Dahtha in this place and hence the place is called Danthapuri.

Amadalavalasa Municipality

Amadalavalasa is 3rd Municipality in Srikakulam district

Srikakulam district

Srikakulam District , formerly known as Chicacole, is the extreme northeastern District of Andhra Pradesh, situated within the geographic co-ordinates of 18°-20’ and 19°-10’ N and 83°-50’ and 84°-50’ E...

. There 23 wards as on 2005 Elections . Population is 37,852. Notified Slum areas are 31.

Detailed Results of 2005 municipal elections poll-date 24-09-2005.

WNo:WName	Resevation	contestedCandidates	Party	TotVots	PolVots	VotSec	PersonElectd	wParty	Majority
1.Timmapuram	S.C.Women	KurmanaRajulamma GontiEswaramma	INC TDP	1092	910	425 485	GontiEswaramma	TDP	60
2.Krishnapuram	B.C.Women	KunaVenkatarajyalaxmi SanapaVaikunthamma	TDP INC	942	814	541 273	Kuna Venkatarajyalaxmi	TDP	268
3.Kasimvalasapeta	Un-Reserved	InjarapuViswanadham PokalaAppanna	TDP INC	1111	881	441 440	Injarapu Viswanadham	TDP	01
4.Gedelavanipeta	Women-General	BannaLavanya SaduVijayaGowri	TDP INC	1244	1089	477 612	SaduVijayaGowri	INC	135
5.Akkivavalasa	B.C.Women	AlluAdilaxmi RavadaRamadevi	INC TDP	1178	1043	531 512	AlluAdilaxmi	INC	19
6.Nandagiripeta	B.C.General	ChintadaVenkataramana SanapalaKondayya	INC TDP	1218	1014	544 470	Chintada Venkataramana	INC	74
7.Chintada	Un-Reserved	BoraGovindarao BoraRamanayya BoraRamulu	TDP INC BJP	1348	1195	638 510 49	BoraGovindarao	TDP	128
8.OldRailwayGate	Un-Reserved	LokanadhamApparao SinguruGovindarao SuriKrishnarao AllamsettiUmamaheswararao	INC BJP TDP IND	1203	939	397 51 187 304	Lokanadham Apparao	INC	93
9.Mettakkivalasa	Un-Reserved	BalijepalliVenkataramanamurty BoddepalliRameshkumar	TDP INC	1283	917	254 663	Boddepalli RameshKumar	INC	409
10.HudcoColony	S.C.General	Kottapalli Jayalaxmi Gollapalli Simhadri	INC TDP	1187	817	389 428	Gollapalli Simhadri	TDP	39
11.KuppilivariVeedhi	Un-Reserved	JalumuruNagabhusanarao ModalavalasaRamesh	INC TDP	1575	1107	499 609	Modalavalasa Ramesh	TDP	110
12.LaxmiNagar	Women-General	PotnuruAruna BalijepalliSujatha	TDP INC	888	653	295 358	Balijepalli Sujatha	INC	63
13.Vidyanagar	Un-Reserve	KunaAppalanaidu ChaparaRamesh TammineniVidyasagar	INC CPM TDP	936	715	215 46 454	Tammineni Vidyasagar	TDP	139
14.I.J.NaiduColony	S.T.General	GedelaRamulu ChallaRamana	INC TDP	1232	815	438 377	GedelaRamulu	INC	61
15.PathinavaniVeedhi	Women-General	Kancharapu Uma ChaparaUmamaheswari Bagana Sujatha	TDP CPI INC	1168	807	276 119 412	BaganaSujatha	INC	136
16.Market-Street	Un-Reserved	Jalumuru Venkateswararao SillaPrasanthiLaxmi	INC TDP	1346	980	575 405	Jalumuru Venkateswararao	INC	175
17.PujariPeta	B.C.General	G.VenkatappalaNaidu PathinaMuralidhararao BoddepalliRamesh	TDP BJP INC	1063	794	286 08 501	BoddepalliRamesh	INC	215
18.BoddepalliPeta	B.C.General	Boddepalli Vijayakumar MamidiSrinivasarao	TDP INC	1019	891	396 495	Mamidi Srinivasarao	INC	99
19.OldAmadalavalasa	Un-Reserved	AmbatiKurmarao BandiGyaneswararao KarriAppanna	TDP INC IND	783	685	315 291 99	AmbatiKurmarao	TDP	24
20.VengalaraoColony	B.C.Women	Padda Laxmi Balaga Uma ReddyGowri	BJP INC TDP	985	798	28 228 542	ReddyGowri	TDP	314
21.Kuddiram	Women-General	PonnadaGowramma SaduRamanamma	TDP INC	1005	872	402 470	SaduRamanamma	INC	68
22.Laxmudupeta	B.C.General	GurugubelliNageswararao DumpalaChiranjivarao	INC TDP	862	772	397 375	Gurugubelli Nageswararao	INC	22
23.Venkayyapeta	B.C.General	BaganaSatyam RavadaChinnammadu	INC TDP	987	882	464 418	BaganaSatyam	INC	46

Abstract

• Party Name __________ Num. of wards Secured
• INC _________________ 14.
• TDP _________________ 09
• BJP _________________ Nil
• CPI _________________ Nil
• CPM _________________ Nil
• IND _________________ NIL

Demographics

India census

Census

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, Amadalavalasa had a population of 37,852. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%.

Amadalavalasa(Assembly Constituency)

Amadalavalasa Assembly candidates details :

Year	Winner Candidate	Party	Votes	Runner Candidate	Party	Votes	Margin(Majority)
2004	Boddepalli Satyavathi	INC	46,300	Tammineni Seetaram	TDP	42,614	3,686

Features

• There is a large scale sugar factory in Amadalavalasa, presently not working. And also some other industries like Jute, Oil etc. are located at that town.

• There is Head post office
  Post office
  A post office is a facility forming part of a postal system for the posting, receipt, sorting, handling, transmission or delivery of mail.Post offices offer mail-related services such as post office boxes, postage and packaging supplies...
  
   at Amadalavalasa.

Villages & village panchayats

There are 39 villages in Amadalavalasa Mandal

Voosapuvanipeta Garimella Kottavalasa Koravam MarriKottavalasa Nimmatorlada Vedullavalasa Turakapeta Tandemvalasa Nelliparti Chintalapeta Bobbilipeta

Mandadi Cheemalavalasa SantaKottavalasa ChinnaJonnavalasa Munagavalasa Sailada Chittivalasa Anandapuram Ramachandrapuram Ponnampeta

PeddaJonnavalasa Srinivasacharyulapeta Akkulapeta Akkulapeta Akkulapeta is a village in Amudalavalasa Mandal of Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh, India.Veteran Parliamentarian Boddepalli Rajagopala Rao was born in this village.-Demographics:... MalluSastrulapeta Hanumantupuram Katyacharyulapeta Korlakota kottavalasa Togaram Kalivaram Dusi Belamam Roja Totada Akkivaram Vanjangipeta ( Gattumudipeta ) Vanjangi Kanugulavalasa Sriramavalasa Amadalavalasa(N.P)

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• Amudalavalasa Online Blog