Penamakuru

Penamakuru is a village located in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, India (Thotlavalluru

Penamakuru
village
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Coordinates: 16°19′21″N 80°49′40″E
Country	India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District	Krishna
Area [1]
• Total	6.20 km2 (2.39 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	2,356
• Density	380/km2 (980/sq mi)
Languages
• Official	Telugu
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
Nearest city	Vijayawada
Lok Sabha constituency	Machilipatnam
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Pamarru

Underlining the development aspects of agriculture, industrial sectors, people and their professions in the village, the State government carried out a seven-page syllabus about Penamakuru in Social Sciences textbook of Class

VI both in English and Telugu mediums in the current academic year.

Penamakuru finds a place in textbook for Class IV Penamakuru, a village in Krishna delta, is part of the Social Studies textbook of Class VI prescribed by the State Council of Educational Research and Training. One of the invisible developments registered here was the stunning growth in the population in recent years.

‘Penamakuru – A village in Krishna Delta’ is in the Social Studies textbook of -VI. The State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT-AP), has included the story of Penamakuru village in the series of Diversity on the Earth.

It narrates the changes witnessed in the agrarian village on several fronts — agriculture, rural economy, modes of ownership of land, livelihood options and diversification of crops on the deltaic land. The SCERT syllabus with the village story was prescribed from the academic year 2012-13 both for Telugu and English medium and is being distributed across the state.

"A drastic change in our lives over the years has made our village one of the ideal villages in the Krishna delta. There were unpredictable changes in crop pattern and growth in agriculture-allied sectors and food production," Penam-akuru sarpanch (1995-2002) Mareedu Nagesw-ara Rao said.

The lesson compiled with 14 pictures of the village on various aspects of life and geographical conditions, including village map, tells a complete tale of all-round development of an agrarian pocket in Andhra Pradesh.