Kankatapalem

Kankatapalem
Village
Country	India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District	Guntur
Elevation	5 m (16 ft)
Population  (2001)
• Total	4,487
Languages
• Official	Telugu
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
Website	www.kankatapalem.com

Kankatapalem is a large village located in the district of Guntur in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. It has a population of about 4487 persons living in around 1176 households. Kankatapalem is one of the major gram panchayat located in Bapatla Mandal of Guntur District. It’s located at 7 KM from Bapatla bordered by Narasayapalem and Cheruvu Jammulapalem. It’s a developed village with rich heritage and culture. Agriculture has been the primary occupation of the majority of the population and the techniques employed by the people have made it affluent and a role-model to the villages around.

Kankatapalem is considered to be blessed with the most fertile lands in Guntur district. Besides agriculture most of the people are into Business. The village has been very good in literacy and have many people settled in various public and private sectors. Centre of the village has a pond which is called as voora cheruvu by villagers. It’s like heart of the village surrounded by temples. It has people of different origins who live unitedly which is why its referred as a peaceful village.

Recently, its inhabitants tried growing maize using paddy cultivation. The results were extremely good and the government has taken this village as a role model, and is now planning to implement the same process in other rural areas. Cattle, used for milking, are the main industry in the Mandalam of Bapatla.

The house wife’s are cleansed the earthy courtyard in front of the entrance by sprinkling water commixed with cow dung; the wetness made the ground an inviting khaki canvass for the village damsels to draw, with white flour or lime powder, beautiful ornamental patters, spectacular floral designs delicate tendrils et al. During festivals especially sankranthi a riot of yellow turmeric, red resplendent vermilion and other bright colors enhanced their pulchritude.

For every family they are having their goddess called Devari of their family, this goddess placed in their individual family house called Davarillu. At the time special occasions like marriage and family functions the people of the village go to their devarillu and prey to their goddess.

Kankatapalem is one of the Village in Bapatla Mandal in Guntur District in Andhra Pradesh State . Kankatapalem is located 6.7 km distance from its Mandal Main Town Bapatla . Kankatapalem is 42.1 km far from its District Main City Guntur . It is 262 km far from its State Main City Hyderabad .

Near By Villages of this Village with distance are Murukondapadu(1.6 k.m.) ,Jammulapalem(4.2 k.m.) ,Vedullapalli(5.4 k.m.) ,Bapatla(5.9 k.m.) ,East Bapatla(5.9 k.m.) ,. Nearest Towns are Bapatla(6.7 k.m.) ,Kakumanu(14.9 k.m.) ,Karlapalem(15.9 k.m.) ,Pedanandipadu(18.9 k.m.) , Asodivaripalem , Bethapudi , East Bapatla , Etheru , Gudipudi , Jammulapalem , ... . are the villages along with this village in the same Bapatla Mandal

Kankatapalem Pin Code is 522317 and Post office name is Stuvartpuram . Other villages in Post Office (522317,Stuvartpuram) are Kankatapalem , Murukondapadu , .

Major grampanchayat, really good village people are very soft and well educated and well established also. most of the people in business feild. village had very good locations like Voora cheruvu which was located center of the village surrounded by temples like Ramalayam, poleramma temple and bramham gari temple.It look like kankatapalem Hussan sager.

Schools near by Kankatapalem

1 . ZP HIGH SCHOOL, NANDIRAJUTHOTA 2 . A.V.V. HIGH SCHOOL, 15th WARD 3 . ZP HIGH SCHOOL, MUTHAYAPALEM

Colleges near by Kankatapalem

1 . Bapatla Womens Engineering College 2 . BAPATLA JR COLLEGE BAPATLA 3 . THE BAPATLA COLL OF ARTS &SCI BAPATLA 4. Bapatla Engineering College

Banks in Kankatapalem 1 . Bank: CORPORATION BANK

Address: 321,KANAKATAPALEM-522317,BAPATLA TALUK State: ANDHRA PRADESH District: GUNTUR (Click here for all the branches of "CORPORATION BANK" in "GUNTUR" District) Branch: KANKATAPALEM Contact: 08643-2227829

IFSC Code: CORP0000228 (used for RTGS and NEFTtransactions) Branch code is the last six characters of the IFSC Code - 000228.

Address of Kankatapalem Kankatapalem (village), Bapatla (Mandalam), Guntur (Distict), Andhra Pradesh (State), India, pin-522317

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