Gannavaram

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Gannavaram ( గన్నవరం)is a town and a Mandal headquarter located in krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, India, twenty kilometers from the city of Vijayawada on National Highway number 5 connecting Chennai to Kolkata. It is famous for its Airport, and Weather reporting station.

Gannavaram Airport is a mid sized domestic airport,longest runway is 6,000 feet in length, at an elevation of 82 feet, serving Vijayawada.Currently flights run thrice a day from here to Hyderabad , Chennai and Bangalore . Due to increase in air traffic to this region Airport Authority of India recently decided to develop, make infrastructural changes to this air port.

[edit] Villages in Gannavaram Mandal

The following is the list of villages in this Mandal. [1]

  1. Ajjampudi
  2. Allapuram
  3. davajigudem
  4. Bahubalendrunigudem
  5. Balliparru
  6. Buddhavaram
  7. Buthumillipadu
  8. Chikkavaram
  9. China avutapalle
  10. Gannavaram
  11. Gollanapalle
  12. Gopavarapugudem
  13. Jakkula nekkalam
  14. Kesarapalle
  15. Kondapavuluru
  16. Marlapalem
  17. Metlapalle
  18. Purushothapatnam
  19. Ramachandrapuram
  20. Sagguru amani
  21. Savarigudem
  22. Surampalli
  23. Tempalle
  24. Vedurupavuluru
  25. Veerapanenigudem
  26. Venkata narasimhapuram
  27. Venkata narasimhapuram(u)
  28. Madalavarigudem


Gannavaram has one of the state's renowned school "St.John's Higher Secondary School".

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