Kumudavalli
| Kumudavalli Bhimavaram City | |
|---|---|
| Neighbourhood | |
| Country |
 India |
| State | Andhra Pradesh |
| District | West Godavari |
| Talukas | Palakoderu |
| Population (2001) | |
| • Total | 4,123 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Telugu |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| PIN | 534210 |
| Telephone code | 08816 |
Kumudavalli is a Gram panchayat in Palakoderu mandal situated about 1 km away from Bhimavaram City of West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India. Kumudavalli Gram Panchayat is one of the four ISO 9001:2008 certified villages in India.
Demographics
According to Indian census, 2001, the demographic details of Kumudavalli village is as follows:[1]
- Total Population: 4,123 in 1,186 Households
- Male Population: 2,072 and Female Population: 2,051
- Children Under 6-years of age: 596 (Boys - 332 and Girls - 264
- Total Literates: 2,409
Key Personalities
- Kumudavalli village is remarkable for many intellectual personalities like Dr.Bhupathiraju Subba Raju, Doctorate in Civil Engineering in 1960's, Dr. Sagi Sitharama Raju(popularly known as S R Sagi), Professor of Chemistry in Andhra University and Good in Telugu Poetry, Dr. B.V. Raju,former CCI Chairman and Raasi Cements who was given first Padma shree from Cement Industry, Dr. B.Rama Raju,Well Known Urologist and Head of Urology at Osmania Medical College,Dr.Kalidindi Venkatapathi Raju,Professor of Mathematics and first employee of famous NIT, Warangal, B.R.K Raju (former Member of Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission), B.Satyanarayana Raju(CMC), Kalidindi Krishnam Raju (Founder-Director of M/S Visualsoft Technologies Limited))etc.
Late Bhupathiraju Tirupathi Raju, founded village library in 1897 basically to educate the villagers and has taken up many remarkable missions such as women's education,literacy movements,eradication of untouchability etc. The library truly worked as Information hub besides working as Post office,Ayurveda clinic etc.He was known as Grandhalaya BHEESHMA.
Late Bhupathiraju Vissam Raju, father of Dr.Rama Raju and Sri Satyanarayana Raju, was a great philontrophist and encouraged and donated liberally to the growth of education in the tiny village in 1940's.
Late Bhupathiraju Ramamurthy Raju,brother of Tirupathi Raju, was a freedom fighter and Congress leader.His contributions to Bhimavaram Urban Cooperative Bank and many canal developments in the vicinity,fight with AP Government against water cess etc. are some of them.Comrade Puchalapalli Sundaraiah spent more than a year (after the defeat of Communists in AP Elections)and regarded Sri Ramamurthy raju as his second Political Guru.Combination of Ramamurthy Raju, Comrade Sundaraiah and Vavila Gopala Krishnaih and their fight against anti farmers policies have brought many changes in the policies of the government.
- Kumudavalli Library, founded in 1897 by Bhupathiraju Tirupathi Raju is regarded as one of the greatest heritage libraries in Asia.
- Many freedom fighters and industrialists have hailed from this village.
VIPASSANA Dhyana Centre is second largest in the state which was contributed by Sri Bhupathiraju Suryanarayana Raju
The village has contributed directly or indirectly to the Nation in many ways.
Economy
Agriculture, mainly paddy fields, fish and prawn tanks, coconut farming etc.