Pebbair

Pebbair
—  village  —
Pebbair
Location of Pebbair
in Andhra Pradesh and India
Coordinates
Country India
State Andhra Pradesh
District(s) Mahaboob Nagar
Parliamentary constituency Nagarkurnool
Assembly constituency Wanaparthy
Time zone IST (UTC+05:30)
Area

Elevation


300 metres (980 ft)

Pebbair or Pebberu (Telugu: పెబ్బేరు) is a village and a Mandal in Mahbubnagar district in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.[1] Pebbair is surrounded by the villages of Srirangapur, Kanchirav Palli, and Kishtareddi Peta.

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Geography

Pebberu is located at .[2] It has an average elevation of 300 metres (987 ft).

Community

Pebbair is a major Grama Panchayithi, having 27 villages and 15 schools (including two junior colleges). Recently, a college offering Bachelor of Education degrees, was sanctioned.

At times, found that, it is the only Gram Panchayat in entire Andhra Pradesh which has generated a revenue for the government. It was possible with its prominent agricultural market (very popular in the surrounding districts like Kurnool, Ranga Reddy, Hyderabad, Nalgonda, Raichur, etc.) that is in business every Saturday i.e., once in a week. The market is popular for Bullocks where farmers from surrounding areas prefer to own new Bullock Pairs for their new crop years. Before 90's it was listed as one of the most drought areas in the district but slowly emerged into very good rice producing area with the effect of abundant water supply from Joorala Project. It is a good market for fruits like Mangoes, Sapotas, Custard Apples, Water Melons, etc., being transferred from nearby town Kollapur and its surrounding villages.

The geographical region of Pebbair Mandal falls between Pampuram village in the North to Yaparla village in the south.

Beechupalli is a famous devastanam near Pebbair (10 kilometers away from Pebbair). Beechpalli is surrounded by the Krishna River. There is an historical hill (konda) called the Nizam Konda in middle of the river, which was once a fort. The movie Kondaveeti Raja (starring Chiranjeevi) was filmed here. Two temples are there near Krishna River namely Lord Srirama and Lord Hanuman temples. The Agriculture of Pebbair has so many resources, such as Jurala Left Cannal & Mahaboopal Pond.

Pebbair is located on highway No. 7, which is the longest highway in India, starting from Varanashi to Kanyakumari and just about 156 km away from Hyderabad towards Kurnool.

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Temples

Another village called Srirangapur is located 10 kilometers from Pebbair. It is famous for the Sri Ranganayaka Swamy Temple, where movies such as AADI, and Chennakaehava Reddy were filmed.

There are many other temples near Pebbair, including the Sai Baba, the Haumaan and the Vasavi Kanyaka Parameshwari. Every year, people celebrate the Chowdeshwari Jatara.

Pebbair has 3 MPTC seats and 14 wards.Also Pebbair is having an orkutcommunity with nearly 150 members and the community name is Pebbair-our heaven.

Education

There are nearly 10 well established schools and few of them also having good hostel facility.Among these schools Gandhi public school,Saraswathi vidyanikethan,Ragavendra Public school,Master mind schools are having good reputation.Pebbair is having one private junior college and one government junior college.And recently one BEd college is also sanctioned.

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