Gandhi Nagar, Sindhanur

Gandhi Nagar, Sindhanur Gandhi Nagar Jalihal Camp
village
Population  (2001)
• Total	10,139

Gandhi Nagar (previously Jalihal Camp) is one of the largest villages in Karnataka state in terms of area, population, property, agricultural produdtion and revenue. It is the first government recognized revenue village in the Tungabhadra Delta Region (i.e. Bellary, Raichur & Koppal districts). From May 17, 1997 onwards this village name was renamed to Gandhi Nagar from Jalihal Camp. Gandhi Nagar is located on either sides of Tungabhadra left Bank Canal,#36.In this village you will find lots of Paddy Fields which are highly fertile & higher yielding type. Paddy [2] is the main agricultural crop in the Tungabhadra Delta Region & the paddy varieties grown here are Sonamasuri,emergency,NelloreSona,JJL,RS22 & some nice rice varieties.

The paddy [3] grown here were mainly exported to Bangalore, Chennai, Maharashtra & Middle-East countries. The paddy cultivation is done by using modern agricultural equipments like Tractors, Paddy Harvesters, Pesticide Sprayers etc. & in this village each and every farmer will be having a Tractor. In this village you will also find large masses of Telugu Speaking People who are migrated from West Godhavari District of Andhra Pradesh during 1960-1970's for cultivating Agriculture in Tungabhadra Delta Region. Migrated peoples are real hard workers who transformed uncultivated lands into fertile lands for growing crops. These peoples are mainly of Kamma Community and their primary occupation is agriculture.

Famous Places

Gandhi Nagar(R) has lot of temples to visit and among these "Lord Shiva Temple"[4] is a must visit temple because of its architectural design.This is one of the finest temples you will find in Tungabhadra Delta region.This Great Temple is built from funds donated by people from Gandhi Nagar & neighboring villages & towns. Telugu Film Actors Muralimohan,Srikanth & Aahuthi Prasad are also contributed funds for building this "Great Shivalayam"[5] Temple. The great persons who involved in all activities for successful construction of Temple are the great Veerampalam Siddanthi "sree sree Garimella venkataramana Swamji" & Maddhipati Gangadhar Rao s/o Maddipati veera raghavalu of Gandhi Nagar(R). To Build this "Great Shivalayam"[6] Temple it costed around 100 Million Rs(10Crore). Every weekend thousands of people from other places will visit this temple [7].

The following is the list of temples which are located in Gandhi Nagar(R)

1.Shivalayam(Anna poorna Vishalakshi sametha visweswara panchayathana kshethram).12jyothirlingas. 2.Shiridi Sai Baba Temples.-two
3.Ramalayam(Lord Sri Rama Temple,sri krishna temple).
4.Subbramanyam Swami Temple.
5.Lord Vigneswara Temple.
6.Lord Anjaneya Temple.
7.Durgamma Temple.
8.Thayamma Temple.
9.Sri Renuka yallamma temple.
10.sri Grama devi temple.

After referring about the temples the main is to tell about the peoples of the village. In this village many were from Godavari district of A.P the persons who came first and started this village are 1. Mullapudi Narayanamurthi, M.Rammurthi, M.sriramulu, M.Suryanarayana, M.Satyanarayana, M.Laxminarayana, M.Krishnamurthy from one family and Maddipati veeraragavalu, A.narayudu, Simhadri veeranna, S.Achanna, B.Suryarao, B.Subbarao Karuturi Ratayya, K.Venkayya & K.Sattiyya. These all people are from Sivatam, Vaddur & Vundrajavarm respectively and they started the village in 1959 and at first Smt. Chandravathi has advised the name Gandhi nagar to be kept for this village but due to problems of posts and all they named it as Jalihal camp and it was changed to Gandhinagar in 1999-2000 and recognised by Govt. of Karnataka. everyone of this village is proud because even though its village there is one person working NASA and one woman as scientist, there are more than 30 students completed PG and more than 20 students completed professional corses like B.E and there is infinite thoughts to speak about the peoples of Gandhinagar.

Education

The following is the list of Schools which are located in Gandhi Nagar(R)

1.Tagore Telugu Medium School high school 2.Sarvepalli RadhaKrishna Education Trust's Vishwashanthi Vidyanikethan English medium school 3.Govt Kannada Medium School.
4.Monalisa English Medium School.
5.sri manjunath school

Geography

Gandhi Nagar(R) is located at 15°41′49″N 76°39′53″E. It is on banks of Tungabhadra Left Bank Canal,#36 and nearest town is Sindhanur around 12 km. Its Taluk headquarters is Sindhanur & District headquarters is Raichur.

Snaps

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  Lord SHIVA Temple front view.
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  Lord SHIVA Temple side view.
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  Idol of Lord Shiva in the main temple of "Shivalayam".
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  This is the statue of Lord HANUMAN which is just beside the shivalayam temple and its height is 22meters.
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  A view of "Shivalayam Temple" from the main road of Gandhi Nagar.
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  A view of "Shivalayam Temple"