River Godavari passes through East and West godavari and godavari divides both east and west godavari districts. Kolleru is the biggest fresh water lake in Andhra Pradesh and India is located in West Godavari. Kakinada is the capital of east Godavari district and eluru is the capital for west Godavari district. Rail cum road bridge built across river godavari connecting kovvuru in west godavari district and rajahmundry in east godavari is considered to be the largest and biggest rail cum road bridge across in India.
Connectivity to east and west Godavari districts:
By road:
NH-5 (National High way no.5) connecting Chennai and kolkatta passes through eluru, tadepalligudem, tanuku and Rajahmundry towns in east and west Godavari districts.
Apsrtc depots in East and West Godavari districts:
Kakinada, Rajahmundry, bhimavaram, eluru, tadepalligudem, amalapuram are the bus depots in east and west Godavari district.
APSRTC runs from and to all places like warangal, khammam, Vijayawada, Kurnool, chittor, vizayanagaram, srikakulam, srisailam, tirupati, in Andhra Pradesh from the towns of east and west Godavari districts.
By Rail:
East and west godavari districts are on the main line running between howrah and Chennai and howrah and Mumbai lines. Eluru, bhimavaram, kakinada, rajahmundry, tadepalligudem, kovvuru, nidadavole , tuni, palakollu, narsapuram, tuni, annavaram, samalkot are the major railway stations in east and west godavari districts. Major express trains passing through these stations include howrah mail, coramandal express, godavari express, gauthami express, circar express, janmabhoomi express, satabdhi express, jammutawi express, konark express leading to bhubaneswar, howrah, mumbai and nagercoil.
Airports in East and West Godavari:
Rajahmundry in east Godavari and Tadepalligudem in west Godavari are the airports in east and west Godavari districts. Kingfisher and air Deccan are operating flights from Rajahmundry to Chennai, tirupati, Vishakhapatnam and Hyderabad.
Sea Ports in east and west godavari districts:
Kakinada port is the major port in east and west godavari districts. The government of AP is planning to develop a port at Narsapuram.
Corporations in east and west godavari districts:
Kakinada, Rajahmundry in east Godavari and eluru in west Godavari are the corporations in east and west Godavari districts.
Muncipalities in east and west godavari districts:
Ramachandrapuram, Razole, Amalapuram, Tuni in East Godavari and Bhimavaram, Narsapuram, Tadepalligudem, Kovvuru, Tanuku, Nidadavolu are the Muncipal corporations in west godavari district.
Economy of East and West godavari
The economy of east and west Godavari districts is mainly agriculture based like paddy and coconut apart from aquaculture related to shrimps, black tiger prawns, crabs and fishes, poultry farms. Export of aqua products,
Industries in East and West godavari:
Sugar factories, fertilizer and chemical industries, ceramic industries, manufacturing of tiles, pharmaceutical industries, distilleries, paper mills, jute mils, Rice mills agro oil mills, cold storage plants processing of prawns, fish, and shrimps in east and west godavari districts.
Andhra sugars at tanuku, jeypore sugars and distilleries at chagallu , delta paper mills at vendra near bhimavaram , nagarjuna fertilizers and chemicals at kakinada, coramandal fertilizers at kakinada, power projects around kakinada, rajahmundry and tuni surroundings. ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation), Reliance petroleum, Gujarat Gas corporation are making exploration of oil and gas.
Tourist places in East and West Godavari Districts:
Papikondalu in river godavari is a place of interest in east and west godavari districts. The tourists can reach papikondalu either from rajahmundry in east godavari and polavaram or pattiseema in west godavari by a motor boat.
Temples in East and West godavari Godavari:
Mavullama temple in bhimavaram, bhimeswaralayam at gunupudi bhimavaram, dwaraka tirupala, pattiseema in west godavari and satyanarayana swamy temple at annavaram pancharamakshetram at draksharamam in east godavari are the famous temples in east and west godavari districts.
Irrigation and drainage projects in East and West godavari:
Dowleswaram barrage across river godavari at dowleswaram near rajahmundry is the biggest irrigation and drainage project in east and west godavari catering to the irrigation needs of the fields of east and west godavari districts and controlling floods to godavari rivers. The proposed polavaram project across Godavari also serves the needs of east and west districts.
Politics in East and West godavari districts:
TDP ( Telugu Desam party) , Congress, PRP ( Prajarajyam Party) , CPI ( Communist Party of India) , CPI( M), BJP ( Bharatiya Janata Party) are having their presence in east and wes godavari districts.
Assembly constituencies in East and West godavari districts:
Assembly constituencies in East Godavari district:
Ramachandrapuram, kakinada city ,kakinada rural, Tuni, , mummadivaram, rajahmundry city , rajahmundry rural, anaparthy , kothapeta, rajanagaram, peddapuram, mandapeta, pithapuram, jaggampeta and pathipadu are under general category , rampachodavaram under st category and Razole , amalapuram and gannavaram are under sc category.
Assembly constituencies in west godavari district:
achanta , bhimavaram , eluru, denduluru, Nidadavolu, tanuku, palakollu, tadepalligudem, narsapuram, undi and unguturu are under general category , polavaram is under st category and chintalapudi and Gopalapuram are under sc category.
Parliamentary constituencies in East and West godavari districts:
Eluru and narsapuram are parliamentary constituencies in west godavari and kakinada and rajahmundry are the parliamentary constituencies in east godavari under general category and amalapuram in east godavari is the SC reserved parliamentary constituency in esat godavari district.
Hospitals in East and West godavari districts:
Education in East and West Godavari:
Presently the colleges in east and west godavari districts are affiliated to Andhra university and with the seting up of Adikavi Nannayya university at Rajahmundry the colleges are going to be affiliated to adikavi nannayya university.
Schools in East and West Godavari Districts:
Schools in east and west godavari include government schools run by department of education, government of andhra Pradesh, ZP ( Zilla Parishad ) schools, municipal schools, private schools recognized by CBSE ( Central Board of Secondary Education) ICSE ( Indian Council for Secondary Education) and KVs ( Kendriya Vidyalaya) schools run by department of education, government of India. Co education schools (residential and day scholar schools), social welfare schools and hostels. Some schools are run by national open schools. Admissions to schools are made in the month of January for toddlers, infants and kindergarden, early childhood, nursery and primary classes. Admissions to class 1 to 10 is made during june. Ssc ( secondary school certificate) is the public exam conducted to the students of state board schools.
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavans Residential Public School at Tadepalligudem and Bhimavaram, Jassver School , Sri Gowthami Public School Gandhipuram, Sri Shiridi Sai Vidya Niketan at Rajahmundry,Minerva Public School at Prathipadu,Sama Public School, Srikanth Public School, Vijayawada Nalanda Vidya Niketan, Sri Prakash Vidyaniketan at Sri Prakash Street in Tuni, Akhsara public school, Pragati Little Public School at Venkatanagar, Subha Niketan School at Sarpavaram Villege Road in Kakinada , DPS ( Delhi Public school) at rajahmundry and kakinada are some of the schools in esat and west godavari districts.
Junior Colleges in East and West Godavari Districts:
Government Junior colleges in East and west godavari district:
The junior colleges in east and west godavari district offer intermediate course in science and arts groups.
Tuni, Gokavaram, Razole, Mamidikuduru, Rampachodavaram, Kadiyam
Rajahmundry, Alamuru, Korukonda ,Kothapeta Kirlampudi, Ravulapalem
Samalkota, Yeleswaram, Jaggampeta, Karapa,Addateegala, Mandapeta
Mummidivaram, Ramachandrapuram, Seethanagaram and Rayavaram
Govt. Jr. College for Boys at Kakinada and for girls at Amalapuram
and for Women at Kakinada are the government junior colleges in east Godavari.
Government Junior Colleges at Tadepalligudem, Tanuku, Koyyalagudem, Undi
Chintalapudi, Tallapudi, and Pedapadu and A.P.Social welfare residential Junior College for Boys, Pedavegi and Tadepalligudem, A.P. Social welfare residential Junior College for girls at Eluru and Bhimadolu are the govt jr colleges in west godavari district. Private junior colleges in east and west godavari offer intermediate as residential semi residential and dayscholars and offer intermediate with eamcet, aieee and iitjee coaching.
Law Colleges in East and West Godavari Districts:
The law colleges offer LLB ( Bachelor of Law) and LLM ( Master of law) courses.
Veeravalli College of Law, Shri Shiridi Sai Vidya Parishad Law College , PS Raju Law College GSKM Law College, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Law are the law colleges in east godavari district and D N Raju Law College at bhimavaram and DSR Hindu Law College are the law colleges in west godavari district.
Polytechnics & Technical Education Colleges in East and West Godavari Districts:
Smt B Seetha Polytechnic in West Godavari and Sri YVS & Sri BRM Polytechnic at Mukteswaram in Invilli Mandal, Near Amalapuram in East Godavari are the polytechnical colleges in east and west godavari districts.
Engineering Colleges in East and West Godavari Districts:
Engineering colleges in east and west godavari are affiliated to AU (Andhra university) and JNTU ( Jawahralal Nehru Technological University). Admissions to these colleges is through eamcet 2009.
Akula Sree Ramulu College of Engineering, Aditya Engineering College at Peddapuram , Kakinada Institute of Engineering & Technology Bonam Venkata Chalamayya Engineering College Bonam Venkata Chalamayya Institute of Technology and Science, Lenora College of Engineering at Rampachodavaram are the private engineering colleges in east godavari district. JNTU ( Jawahralal Nehru Technological University) College of Engineering at Kakinada is the government engineering college in east godavari district.
SRKR Engineering College in bhimavaram, Akula Gopayya College of Engineering & Technology at Tadepalligudem Swarnandhra Institute of Engineering & Technology at narsapuram, Nova College of Engineering & Technology, Bhimavaram Institute of Engineering & Technology, SVH College of Engineering,
Sri Vasavi Engineering College are the engineering colleges in west godavari district.
Under Graduate Degree and Post Graduate Colleges Colleges in East and West Godavari Districts:
The degree colleges in east and west godavari offer B.A.( Bachelor of Arts), B.Com( Bachelor of commerce), B.Sc( Bachelor o Science), BCA ( Bachelor of computer applications), BBA, and the PG Colleges offer M.A., M.Com., M.Sc., MCA, MBA.
BEd & Teacher Education Colleges in East and West Godavari Districts:
Nursing Colleges in East and West Godavari Districts:
BSc (Bachelor of Science ), MSc (Master of Science) in nursing , GNM ( General Nursing and Midwifery) , PBBSc (Post-Basic Bachelor of Science in Nursing) in Nursing, are courses offered and need to have approval from the Nursing Council of India.
Narsaspur Christian Hospital School of Nursing, St Marys School of Nursing , Mother Vannini Hospital College of Nursing, Asram College of Nursing at eluru, Kunthidevi Mahilabhyudaya School of Nursing are the nursing colleges in west godavari district and Christian Medical Centre School of Nursing , Haritha College of Nursing ,GSL College of Nursing, Dr Sakhireddy Veerabhadra Rao School of Nursing ,Aditya College of Nursing, East Godavari ,Florence Nightingale School of Nursing, Mother Theresa School of Nursing , Priyadarshini School of Nursing,Kasturba School of Nursing ,Swatantra College of Nursing, Sri YVS and BRM School of Nursing, Sai College of Nursing, SK College of Nursing , Sri Ram College of Nursing ,Sri Venkateswara College of Nursing ,
Medical and dental colleges in east and west godavari district:
Asram medical college at eluru and rangaraya medical college at kakinada are the medical colleges in east and west godavari district.
Distance Education Study Centers in East and West Godavari Districts:
Other Educational Institutions in East and West Godavari Districts: