Palakol
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Palakol is a Financial town 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...

 in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

.Palakol is oldest Municipalities in A.P. Constituted on 1-4-1920. It is an important trading town in West Godavari
West Godavari
West Godavari District is one of the 23 districts of Andhra Pradesh, India. Eluru, is the district headquarter...

 district for the surrounding villages Doddipatla, Achanta, Achanta Vemavaram
Achanta Vemavaram
Achanta Vemavaram is a village in Achanta Mandalam, West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India. The village has fertile paddy fields, sugar cane and coconut plantations.-Facilities:* Primary health center* Mahila mandali* High School - 1...

 etc, and is in proximity with other trading towns such as Bhimavaram
Bhimavaram
Bhimavaram is a city and mandal in the West Godavari District in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is located east of state capital, Hyderabad....

, Eluru
Eluru
Eluru is a city and a municipal corporation in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is the headquarters of West Godavari district and has a population of 5,15,343 approximately. Eluru is situated on the national highway NH 5 connecting Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam and about east of state...

, Tanuku
Tanuku
Tanuku, West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India. It was known as Tarakapura in ancient times. The name comes from Tarakasena, who ruled over Tanuku and the adjoining regions. Dr. Karumuri Venkata Nageswara Rao is the current MLA...

 and Narsapur
Narsapur, West Godavari
Narsapur is a town, Mandal and a municipality in West Godavari district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Its geographical coordinates are 16° 27' 0" north, 81° 40' 0" east. Some say there are other narasapurams in Krishna and Medak districts....

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Palakol's population is about 80,000 (palakol mandal population included) ) and is well recognized for its surrounding fertile lands. Both Telugu
Telugu language
Telugu is a Central Dravidian language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where it is an official language. It is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu...

 and English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 are spoken here.

Tourist attractions

Main tourist attraction of Palakol is the Ksheera Rama Lingeswara Swami Temple with its 36.6 Mts high Tower (Pedha Gopuram) (A 15th century temple built for the Hindu God Shiva. It is one of the five Pancharamas).
The temple has a unique white shiva lingam and the temple tower is one of the tallest among the temple towers in Andhra Pradesh.
This place was earlier called as Dugdoparanapuram Upamanyupuram "Ksheera rampuram " and based on this temple. Later called as "Pala Kolanu", which all tries to convey the meaning of milk pond. This town and the Ksheera Rama Lingeswara Swami temple are located in the area subtended by the Shiva temples at Srisailam,Draksharamam & Kaleswaram also called
"Trilinga Desam"(meaning "the region bounded by three lingas") which in following centuries of existence became Telugu desam,the language spoken by the people around these locations was named as Telugu,hence it is believed by some historians that the word "Telugu" was born from this region .

Ashtabhuja Lakshmi Narayana Swami Temple (China Gopuram) which is known for its traditions and festivities like Bhramostavam, (generally held in May of every year) draw large number of devotees from nearby places. Dhanurmasam is celebrated in the month of December in the remembrance of love of Andaal for Lord Sri Krishna.chinna gopuram,which is considered as ashtabhuja lakshmi narayana temple is the one of the only two temples that exist in india for ashtabhuja lakshmi narayana temple,and only one in the south india.

Lush green fertile Paddy Farms, Coconut farms, Fisheries and prawn ponds add to the attractions around the town.

Interesting facts

Palakol is a coastal town with a population of approximately 80,000 (including the Mandal (Taluka) population) and is an important trading centre for the surrounding villages.Palakol is the birth place of Padmasri Dr Allu Ramalingaiah Telugu film celebrities like Dasari Narayana Rao
Dasari Narayana Rao
Dr. Dasari Narayana Rao B.A. is a politician, film director, and film producer. Narayana Rao directed about 150 films, produced 53 films and worked in more than 250 films as a dialogue writer and as a lyricist.Beside graduating with a BA degree, he used to take part in scores of drama competitions...

 ,Pinisetti Sreerama Murthi, Allu Venkata Satyanarayana Kodi Ramakrishna
Kodi Ramakrishna
Kodi Ramakrishna is an Indian film director and writer principally in Andhra Pradesh. He has directed more than 100 movies in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi languages all together.-Profile:...

,Pinnisetti Ravi Raju, Addala Chanti, Chintapalli Ramana
Chintapalli Ramana
Chintapalli Venkata Ramana Babu is a Telugu film writer. His screen name is Chintapalli Ramana....

, Korada Chalam, Vakada Appa Rao, Allu Aravind (famous Film Producer Telugu and Hindi) Allu Arjun [(Banni) (Telugu Hero)] Other popular [Relangi Narasimha Rao, Mutcherla Aruna and Nalla Ramamurthy hail from this place. U. Srinivas
U. Srinivas
Uppalapu Shrinivas , is an Indian mandolin player of the Carnatic musical tradition of Southern India. Shrinivas plays an electric mandolin and has collaborated with John McLaughlin, Michael Nyman, and Michael Brook...

, a world renowned exponent of Mandolin
Mandolin
A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...

, was born here. He was the first person to play carnatic music on this German instrument.

Transport

Buses operated by APSRTC & Private Travel Agencies run from Palakol to Hyderabad, Vizag, Vijayawada and Tirupati. Situated along the Narsapur-Vijayawada Railway route, Three express trains service the town. A bridge was built on Vasista Godavari near Chinchinada 7 km away from Palakol connecting East Godavari
East Godavari
East Godavari District is a district situated on the northeast of the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. Its district headquarters is Kakinada. It is the second richest district in the whole country...

 & West Godavari
West Godavari
West Godavari District is one of the 23 districts of Andhra Pradesh, India. Eluru, is the district headquarter...

 Districts of Andhra Pradesh, which makes it a part of National Highway 214.

Agriculture

Palakol is surrounded by rich fertile paddy fields and coconut groves.It is said Dutch started plantations of Chinni, lemon and orange. The Town is also famous for Pomelo
Pomelo
The pomelo is a citrus fruit native to Southeast Asia. It is usually pale green to yellow when ripe, with sweet white flesh and very thick albedo . It is the largest citrus fruit, 15–25 cm in diameter, and usually weighing 1–2 kg...

 fruit (pumpara panasa kaaya). Weekend market on Saturday makes the town busy with business. The town has a festive look every Saturday with people coming to the market from in and around Palakol for purchases.

Lalita Kalanjali Nataka Academy supported by famous film artist & director Kodi Ramakrishna conducts Nataka Potilu (Drama Competitions) every year, which are famous in the State. For the prize giving of these drama competitions, many celebrates of telugu film industry come to palakollu. Such as super star krishna, Ramyakrishna,Ravali,Roja and many other famous actors.

First Elected Municipal Chairaman Sri Mucherla Venkata Subba Rao, Give water facility in 1920.
Sri Allu Venkata Satyanarayan Elected 4 times as M.L.A. period 1983 to 1989 and 1994 to 2004. Sri Chodisettu Surya Rao Elected as Municipal Chairman long Period 1956 to 1971 and 1981 to 1986

A myth or legend behind the Ksheera Rama Lingeswara Swami Temple bodes palakollu to flood. In the legend the known goddess Ganga, one of the wives of Lord Siva is believed to have left her nose ring up on the top of this temple. They say she tries every now and then to get her nose ring back, in doing so Palakollu would be flooded because Ganga, the goddess of water would bring flood of water with her. As the temple is highest of all buildings in palakollu, the whole town would be under water. Every time she makes an attempt to fetch her ring, Another god called Antheravedhi Narasimha Swami uses his stick and taps it on her head stopping her and protecting Palakollu from the danger.And the ring is invisible so, no humans can see it.Many people don't believe in this story, but it is a story that circulated around a while ago in Palakollu.

Palakol has the highest gaali gopuram in Andhra Pradesh,i.e famously referred as peddha gopuram,and from top of that whole Palakol town can be viewed.

Palakol is famous for theaters,to where even people from surrounding villages and towns come to see,and it has 7 air-conditioned theaters,and the first digital theater in Andhra Pradesh is constructed in Palakol itself named Srinivasa Digital Theater, where film is projected in digital way through satellites.

palakol is famous for its higher number of rice mills,paper mill and once upon a time existed sugar factory.

The weekly market that is conducted on every saturday is a famous place where traders from other places of west Godavari,east godavari and krishna district come to perform their business and approximately Rs.2 crore business occurs for every Saturday.

This place is very famous for the shooting locations for many films due to the surrounding greenery and the surrounding beautiful villages like poduru.
Noted film actor Chiranjeevi
Chiranjeevi
Chiranjeevi is a Telugu film actor and a politician. He has appeared primarily in Telugu Cinema along with a few Tamil, Kannada and Hindi films. He made his acting debut in Punadhirallu . However, Pranam Khareedu released at the box office earlier...

 stood for the Palakollu legislative assembly
Legislative Assembly
Legislative Assembly is the name given in some countries to either a legislature, or to one of its branch.The name is used by a number of member-states of the Commonwealth of Nations, as well as a number of Latin American countries....

 seat for Andhra Pradesh State Assembly
Andhra Pradesh State Assembly
The Andhra Pradesh Legislature is the state legislature of Andhra Pradesh. The Andhra Pradesh legislature has been both unicameral and bicameral in its history.-State legislature:The Andhra Pradesh Legislature is currently bicameral....

and lost the election in 2009.
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