Kondramutla

Kondramutla is a village in Ipur Mandal, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India. The nearest town at 8 km south is Vinukonda, a Taluq Headquarters. Kondramutla falls into Vinukonda Assembly constituency and Narasarao Pet Parliamentary constituency. It is located 85 km southwest of Guntur and is on the state highway connecting Vinukonda and Hyderabad.

Overview

The village panchayat includes two nearby hamlets, Satyanarayanapuram and Dushmanpet Thanda. Satyanarayanapuram was formed as a settlement in the recent decades with immigrants from Nellore district. Dushmanpet Thanda is a settlement formed by the people of the nomadic tribe “Lambadi”. These two hamlets are at a distance of 2 km from the village in north and northwest directions respectively. The number of voters in the panchayat is around 2700 as of August 2006.

This village is basically an agrarian village and most of the residents are either farmers or marginal farmers. Kondramutla is considered to be one of the very few prosperous villages in the mandal in terms of education and entrepreneurship. On the political front, this village is considered to be very active and progressive. Sri Nalabolu Govindarajulu, born in this village was elected as the MLA of Vinukonda constituency in 1950's. He won over Sri Pulupula Sivaiah, a stalwart of the then Communist Party of India and was considered as a giant-killer. His brother Sri Nalabolu Venkaiah headed the kondramutla panchayat for more than 20 years, till early 1980's. Nalabolu Venkataswamy and Mundru Ramakrishna headed the Panchayat in the next terms consequently. Chekuri and Nalabolu are two prominent surnames in kondramutla. Chekuri families excel in education. Most of chekuri young generation is working in USA. Chekuri Street is called "Jubilee Hills of Kondramutla" by local people. Nalabolu families are more inclined towards politics. Other surnames include Gorantla, Mundru, Kondramutla etc....

The village has an upper-primary school and a single-teacher primary school in S.C colony:run by the Mandal Parishad, a veterinary hospital and two milk-collection centers. At the center of the village there is a Panchayat office building and a big stage with the statues of Mahatma Gandhi and Nehru which serves as a Dias for the villagers for gatherings. There are two paddy milling units at the outskirts of the village.

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There are two temples built for Lord Rama, one at the center of the village and is popularly known as "“Ramulavari Meda”" and the other one is located in "‘Golla Bazaaru’. "There is a temple for Lord Shiva, which was in a dilapidated condition till recently. This temple is renovated now and regular "puja" is conducted by the devotees now. There is another ancient temple of Lord Venugopala in the paddy fields towards the south of the village. The village people believe that this temple was built during the period of Vijayanagara Empire. There are also ruins of a temple of Lord Ganesha in these fields adjacent to the Venugopala Swamy temple.

There is a church located on the road to Vinukonda, named ‘Sacred Heart’ that belongs to [Diocese of Guntur] . This church was built in 1900 and is one of the oldest churches of Guntur district. There is also a welfare center established by the Society for Jesus Mary Josef (JMJ) right across the church. There is also a mosque in the fields near Satyanarayanapuram.

Since September 2006, the panchayat is being headed by Smt. Nalabolu Srimahalakshmi.