Siddipet
Siddipet
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Siddipet is a town and a municipality in Medak district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh with a population of 64,835 [1]. It is the biggest town in Medak district and is 80 km away from Hyderabad. The town is dominated by the business community and many small scale industries in this town showcase the people's potential.
Geography
Siddipet is located at 18°06′N 78°51′E / 18.1°N 78.85°E[1]. It has an average elevation of 475 metres (1558 feet).
Siddipet is a major town in Medak district. It is situated between Hyderabad and Karimnagar on Rajeev highway.
Demographics
As of 2001 India census[2], Siddipet had a population of 61,650. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Siddipet has an average literacy rate of 69%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 78%, and female literacy is 60%. In Siddipet, 13% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Places of interest
Bogeshwara Alayam,Koti lingala gudi, Sharabeshwara Swamy temple (Sun god), Ayyappa Temple,Anantha Sagar( Saraswathi temple), Syed Sadulla Baba Darga (irkode), Janulla Shah Darga are located in and around Siddipet. Sri maha renuka devi temple built by great shaktha kula guru "sri venkata ramanaiah " is just 3Kms away from siddipet.
Bogeshwara Alayam is a very Oldest temple in the town. It has very importance on festival of Nagula Chavithi.
People
People are talented very loving, tolerant, respectful of each other's religious and cultural values. Most of the people fall under middle class. Siddipet is also famous for doctors, painters, software engineers, mathematicians, businessmen, teachers and hard working middle class society. Famous Painters like K.Rajaiah (National Awardee) and Y.Balaiah (International Artist) Sandeep Reddy (Social service) are from siddipet only.
Business
Siddipet is famous for rice mills, Mangalore tile industries and poultry business. It has good banking industry, financial institutions which are fully computerized and the branches are second in position in turnovers. Siddipet is famous for rice mills and oil mills; it stands in second place after Miryalguda in Andhra Pradesh for number of rice and oil mills. It is also a place for good artists. It deserves the district head quarters status being a large town in the Medak District. Siddipet is geographically a junction between 5 northern Districts. It should have got a railway link long back but due to some political reasons it is not implemented.
Politics
Telangana Rastra Samithi (TRS) party was founded here. Mr. K Chandra Shekar Rao (TRS President) is a native of Siddipet. He has been State Minister for transportation and served as Deputy Speaker of the state assembly and also been as a central government minister of labour.
Mr. KCR the founder president of Telangana Rastra Samithi wants to create a separate state of Telangana from Andhra Pradesh. Some of the people from telangana wish to be separated from andhra since accent, dressing and many more like Festivals and the way of celebrating the festivals is very much different from andhra. KCR won the elections in 2006 with the highest majority from Karimnagar Lok Sabha constituency.
Mr. Late A. Madan Mohan, former minister hails from this town. Mr. Farooq Hussain, AP State Minority Finance Corporation Chairman is a native of Siddipet.
Education
Siddipet has two Engineering colleges, a Nursing training college, BEd Colleges and good High schools. Some schools have got state ranks. In Siddipet we can find good schools and good education insstitutes.
In Siddipet, Government Degeree College is the famous and is very beautyful to see, it was built in long back when there is no colleges in Telangana region except Hyderabad. In this college along with Degree courses PG courses also running. In PG section MCA(Master of Computer Science), MBA(Master of Business Administration) and M.Sc(Physics) courses offering under the Osmania University. In Karimnagar there is a another government college with the name SRR College it has similar architecture of Siddipet government college.
Weather
Mostly hot, especially during summer. One of the coolest places in andhrapradesh in winter.
Rivers
Komati cheruvu & Yerra cheruvu , sub-river of Manjira (which is sub river of Godavari) is located at this place.