Nandigama | |
Native Name Lang: | te |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | India Andhra Pradesh#India |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Andhra Pradesh, India |
Coordinates: | 16.7833°N 80.3°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | India |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name1: | Andhra Pradesh |
Subdivision Name2: | Coastal Andhra |
Subdivision Name3: | NTR |
Government Footnotes: | [1] |
Government Type: | Municipality |
Leader Title: | Chairman |
Leader Name: | Tummala Srinivas Babu |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Area Footnotes: | [2] |
Area Total Km2: | 25.90 |
Elevation M: | 21 |
Population Total: | 44359 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Footnotes: | [3] |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Demographics Type1: | Languages |
Demographics1 Title1: | Official |
Timezone1: | IST |
Utc Offset1: | +5:30 |
Postal Code Type: | PIN |
Postal Code: | 521 185 |
Area Code: | +91–8678 |
Area Code Type: | Telephone code |
Registration Plate: | AP–16 |
Demographics1 Info1: | T |
Blank2 Name Sec1: | Vidhan Sabha constituency |
Blank2 Info Sec1: | Nandigama |
Nandigama is a town in NTR district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is a Municipality and also the headquarters of Nandigama mandal in Nandigama revenue division.[4]
Nandigama is located 50 km West of Vijayawada and 46 km east of Kodada.
Civic administration
Nandigama Municipality is the civic administrative body of the town which was constituted in the year 2011. It has an area of 25.9km2. The municipal chairman of Municipality is Padmavathi Yaragorla and the vice-chairman is V.Ashok Kumar.[5]
Politics
Nandigama a part of Nandigama (SC) (Assembly constituency) for Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly. It is a reserved constituency for Scheduled Castes. TANGIRALA SOWMYA is the present MLA of the constituency from TELUGU DESAM Party.[6] It is also a part of Vijayawada (Lok Sabha constituency) which was won by Kesineni Sivanadh (Chinni) of Telugu Desam Party.[7] [8]
The Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation and TSRTC operates several bus buses services from Nandigama bus station to various destinations in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.[9] The town has a total road length of 139.6km (86.7miles).[10]