Huzurnagar

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Huzurnagar is a town and taluka in Nalgonda District in Andhra Pradesh, India. Nearby villages include Govinda Puram, Vepala Singaram, and Lakkavaram. Once it was the widest Taluka in the district which covered in towns as Kodad, Munagala etc.,

The original name of the town was Pohincherla. Named after as the Goddess Pochamma is established in the cheruvu (means Pond). It was once ruled by Huzur, after which the name was changed to Huzurnagar.

The town has many rice mills. This is the second town in AP in regard of Para-Boiled Rice Mills after Mirayalaguda. Among its temples is Ramalayam, Mutyalamma Temple, Durga devi temple and Shirdi Sai Baba temple. Mutyalamma festival is held in the town annually.one more temple at gutta nearby muktyala branch canal where every year before shivaratri idol of lord RAMA will go to that place and celebrate festival.previously (5 yrs back) this festival is very big. There is one Govt Health Center which is one of the largest health centers in the district.

Huzurnagar has Sitaramachandra Swami temple which is 900 years old, and one of the ancient temple in the district, which was under destruction (Bad condition) state and looking for donors. A family from Huzurnagar town Sri Yadlapalli Ramaiah and there children came forward and donated Rs 3 Lakhs for the reconstruction of “Sitaramachandra swamy Temple Gopuram” and was inaugurated by Nalgonda district Joint Collector Sri Sridhar IAS.

This town has been surrounded by many big and small cement factories such as Priya Cements, Sagar Cements, Nagarjuna Cements, Anjani Cements, Maha Cements and Kamakshi Cements etc. Their contribution on the cement industry is substantially good.

Huzurnagar town has two Zilla Parishad High Schools, one Govt. High School and One Govt. Junior College. In Huzurnagar 3 private Collegs Also here Named Priyadarshini College, Chaitanya College & Newgeneration Junior College. They are 2 Degree Colleges Priyadarshini Degree College & Chaitanya Dergee College. Recently even an Engineering college came up in 2004 which is named MITS (Madira Institute of Technology).

Huzurnagar can only be reached by buses as there is no rail link. Nearest railway station is at Miryalguda which is at a distance of 35 k.m.

Huzurnagar has two nationalised banks namely Andhra Bank and State Bank of Hyderabad and a co-operative central bank and a Grameena Bank.

Huzurnagar is already assembly constituency before 1977. In the Public Elections of 1972, brother of Sarojini Naidu, competed from this famous town. In 1977 in revised assembly constituency it looses but again after 20 years it has become a NEW assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh with the revised recent Election Commission in 2007. Assuming that by 2009 elections, it will become complete constituency.

The outskirts of this town, are beautiful. Once, this town played a vital role in the times of Ruling of Nizams. So many people sacrificed their lives for the movement led against the Nizam Rulers.

Saiprabath Nagar (which was named after SaiBaba Temple existence) is located in the center of Huzurnagar town, which was formerly supposed to be the outskirts of the town, and which is surrounded by a Hospital and Educational Institutions.

Nearby Huzurnagar there is a pilgrimage centre, Mattapalli, which is popular among the neighbouring villages and towns. It's legend dates back to 13th century BC. Lord Narasimha Swamy is worshipped here and considered as most Powerful god. This temple is located on the banks of Famous South Indian River, River Krishna