Kovur
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Kovur is a census town
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 and Mandal
Mandal
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 headquarters in Nellore district
Nellore district
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 in the India
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 of Andhra Pradesh
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Geography

Kovur is located at 14.4833°N 79.9833°E. It has an average elevation of 15 meters (52 feet).

Demographics

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, had a population of 8534. Males constitute 49% of the population and females 51%. Kovur has an average literacy rate of 76%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 82%, and female literacy is 70%. In Kovur, 9% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Assembly constituency

Kovur is an assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh. There are 1,44,157 registered voters in Kovur constituency in 1999 elections.

List of Elected Members:
  • 1978 - Pellakuru Ramachandra Reddy
  • 1983, 1985 and 1989 - Nallapareddy Sreenivasulu Reddy
  • 1994 , 1999 and 2009 - Nallapareddy Prasanna Kumar Reddy
  • 2004 - polamreddy srenivasulu reddy
  • 2009 - Nallapareddy Prasanna Kumar Reddy

Features

  • Kovur is situated on the north side of city of Nellore
    Nellore
    Nellore , is a city and headquarters of Potti Sri Ramulu Nellore District, formerly Nellore district.And in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Ancient name of Nellore was "Vikrama Simhapuri"....

    , Andhra Pradesh
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    , India
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    . It is very near to the city compared with many suburbs which comes into the Nellore city limits.
  • Kovur is agriculture based area. it is the major rice bowl of Nellore, which is famous for "Nellore Molagolukulu" a beautiful mild fragrance thin rice like jasmine flower. In olden days Jasmine flowers were exported to France via Madras for perfume making.
  • The great translator of "MAHABHARATAM" to Telugu version "Mr. THIKKANA"is born in this place. He wrote Mahabharatam in Telugu by sitting on the banks of "Penna" river. the stone shelter is still remaining there in the telugu name "Thikkana Mahabharatam rachinchina mandiram" (rachinchina = written, Mandiram = House)in Telugu language.


Industries:
NTS:
Nellore Thermal Power station (Electricity Production plant) at Kovur, 5 km from Nellore has been closed for reasons of what he describes as `non-viability' and it was converted to AP TransCo.

Kovur Cooperative Sugar Factory:
The Factory was established in the year 1979 with a crushing capacity of 1250 TCD. Since the factory is working at more than its capacity utilization and adequate cane in available in the area, the factory is expanding its capacity to 2500 TCD at a total cost of about Rs. 14 crores which is being funded by National cooperative development corporation through State Government and Sugar Development fund. The expansion work is completed. With addition of new boilers and turbo alternator of high pressure, the existing unit can be utilized for individual cogeneration. The factory has planned for incidental cogeneration of 1.5 MW/hr which is under process.

And also having one new Granite production company.

Schools

St.Pauls Eng med High school

TNC Govt. Boys HighSchool

Vijetha Public School

Sumedha Eng med High school

Vasista School

Govt Girls High school

Colleges

TNC Govt. Junior College

NSR Jr. College

Srinivasa Degree College

Siva Sai Jr. College
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