Tellapadu has a Zilla Parishad High School named after Paruchuri Narasimhaiah,[1] and a sub-post office. The school's golden jubilee celebrations were celebrated on 21 April 2013, and was well covered by Telugu media.[2]
Notable people
Several landlords, eminent industrialists, senior public/private sector employees hail from here including:
1) (Late) Yanamadala Ramakrishnayya has been president for more than 25 years and have played the very important role in the development of two villages and he fought with the government for the people and build homes to the poor and backward cast people and in memory of him they named their colony as Ramakrishna Puram
2) (Late) Mallipeddi Venkatasubbaiah & Ramaswamy Chowdary, and later the former's sons, in their prime, were the richest people/zamindars of the village. Their residence measuring around 45,000 square feet (4,200 m2) and shed (for cattle and horses), housed several peacocks, horses, cattle etc. Such was their wealth that people used to fight to stake claim to their cattle's dung, whence they were passing through the village.[3] A bust of (Late) Mallipeddi Pitchaiah was unveiled during the recent high school golden jubilee celebrations for his benevolent contribution of 6 acres of land towards the school.[2]
4) (Late) Panda Punnaiah (whose mother hails from here) was chairman, Beardsell Ltd.[5] and also on the boards of Nava Bharat Ventures Ltd.[6] (formerly Nava Bharat Ferro Alloys) and Prakasam Sugar Complex Ltd.
Composition
The village also includes a large number of migrants from the former RepalleTaluk in Guntur District.
The caste composition of the main village is mainly by members of the Kamma caste, all Pedda Kammas, a large chunk of whom have migrated to urban areas (particularly Hyderabad, Bangalore, Guntur and the US). Other castes include Brahmins and Vaishyas; professional castes like washermen, barbers, milkmen; dalits and others. The latter two-thirds have their own quarters towards the village's boundary.
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