Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore

Nellore

Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore  District is famous for high paddy yield, and so it got its name from “nelli”, an equivalent word for paddy in Tamil. It was earlier known as Nellore  district.

In June 2008, the government of Andhra Pradesh officially renamed the district as Potti Sri Ramulu Nellore District after the freedom fighter and revolutionary Potti Sri Ramulu, who died fasting in an attempt to achieve the formation of a separate state for the Telugu people.

The district was situated between 79º 9′ and 80º 14’E, of the eastern longitudes and 13º 25′ and 15º 55’N, of northern latitudes. The district is bounded on the north by the Prakasam District, on the south by Tamil Nadu state and Chittor District, on the east by the Bay of Bengal, and on the west by YSR District.

The district has population of 29,66,082 as per the 2011 census which accounts for 3.50% of the total population of the State with 11.15% decadal growth.

Source: Bureau Of Economics

Item	Units	Figure	Source
Area	In 000 Sq. Km	13.1	Census 2011
Population	In Persons	29,66,082	“
Male	In Persons	14,93,254	“
Female	In Persons	14,72,828	“
Urban	In Persons	8,62,309	“
Rural	In Persons	21,03,773	“
Population Growth (decadal)	%	11.15	“
Population Density (Person/Sq.Km)	Ratio	227	“
Literacy	%	69.15	“
Male	%	75.93	“
Female	%	62.3	“
Urbanisation	%	29.07	“
Workers as % of total population	%	45.4	2001
Workers % of main Workers	%	81.31	“
Household industries	%	4.01	“
Area under Food & Non-Food crops	Area in Hectares	4,48,592	2012
Mining & Quarrying (Feldspar – More)	Qty in tonnes	1,24,510	“
Forest Area under the control of Forest Department	Area in Hectares	2,62,787	“
Gross irrigated area as % of gross cropped area	%	28.78	“
Value of output of major crops	%	–	“
Per capita food grain production	%	–	“
Road Length per 100 sq.km.	In Sq.km	89.88	“
Post offices per 100,000 persons	Ratio	26.19	“
Bank branches per 100,000 persons	Ratio	9.64	“
Population per bank	In Thousands	10.48	“
Per capita bank deposits	Rs. In Crores	19721.97	“
Per capita bank credit	In Rs.	29076.74	“
Per capita bank credit to agriculture	In Rs.	67.67	2010
Per ha. bank credit to agriculture	In Rs.	44.74	“
Per capita bank credit to Industries	In Rs.	41.41	“

Major Crops 2011-12

Crop	Area in hectares	Out-turn in tonnes	Source
Rice	2,54,572	10,31,426	2011-12
Maize	1,426	10,222	“
Black gram(Mash)	41,660	23,718	“
Bengal gram	11,944	16,339	“
Groundnut	11,401	30,781	“
Sunflower	2,862	1,983	“
Cotton	14,681	34,716	“
Tobacco	10,882	17,531	“

Source: AP State Portal

Minerals 

Mineral	Quantity(Tonnes)	Value(‘000 Rs.)	Source
Silica Sand	21,39,623	1,03,708	2011-12
Feldspar	1,24,510	36,059	“