| Nellore District
| Total Population : 2,668,564 |
| Total literate : 1,522,866 |
| Rural : 2,069,521 |
Urban : 599,043 |
| Male : 1,344,935 |
Female : 1,323,629 |
Area :
13,076.00
Sq.km.
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Collectorate
Sri
M.RaviChandra,IAS
Office : (0861) 2331999 / Home : (0861) 2325025, 2331235
MP : Loksabha
Lakshmi Panabaka
CONSTITUENCY : Nellore (SC) (Andhra Pradesh )
PARTY : Indian National Congress (INC)
Minister of State : Health & Family Welfare.
Present
Address
22, Mother Teressa Crescent,
New Delhi-110 011
Tels. (011) 23019972, 23010807,
Fax: (011) 23018157
Permanent
Address
25-1-484, Postal Colony,
A.K. Nagar, Nellore
(Andhra Pradesh)
Tel. (094) 40279944
Social
and Developmental Challenges
M Ravichandra
Cyclone prone area
Ground water is turning saline in coastal areas
Tribals are less educated
Poor state of health
Difficulties faced in maintaining irrigation structure
Brief
about District
About
District
Nellore
also known as Vikrama Simhapuri. Nellore is famous
for Rice and Aqua culture. There are many places of
Historical importance in Nellore, the Ranganayakula
Temple on the bank of the river Penna, the Udayagiri
fort, the Narasimha Konda, Penchala kona, Venkatagiri
fort, Mypadu beach,famous rocket launching centre
at Sriharikota,the Krishnapatnam port, Nelapattu etc.
Vikramsimha Mahavir, Manumasiddhi Maharaj ruled this
Nellore town, with Simhapuri as its capital. One of
the writers of Mahabharatha in telugu,'Kavi Brahma','Ubhaya
Kavimithrudu' writer kavi thikkanna, worked as prime
minister and Khadga Thikkanna as Defence minister.
During this period this state flourished with highest
paddy yield. That is why it is called "nelli" an equivalent
word for paddy in tamil. In course of time the name
Nellivur is changed to NELLORE, as was written in
sthala puranam and history. Nellore was the only Education
Centre in Andhra Pradesh during the British rule.
This area is rich in particular kind of flint called
quartzite, out of which prehistoric man made his weapons
and implements. With the rise of the Mauryan Empire,
nellore also seems to have come under its influence
and was part of the Ashokan empire in the third century
B.C. The district was next included in the Pallava
dominion between the fourth and sixth centuries A.D.With
the dawn of the seventh century, the political centre
of Gravity of the Pallavas shifted to the south and
weakened their power, the north. During the British
period, the district tasted the blessings of settled
peace, the only event of any political importance
being the sequestration in 1838, of the Jagir of Udaygiri,
owing to its title holder's participation in a conspiracy,
engineered by the Nawab of Kurnool, against the ruling
power. After the district came under the british administration
the jurisdiction of the district did not undergo any
major changes, but for the transfer of Ongole taluk
in 1904 to guntur district when it was newly constituted.
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