Caste & Politics
More than 80% of the village population belongs to one caste - Reddy. Though a single caste is predominant, it has politically diversified views. Both Indian National Congress and Telugudesam Parties play predominant role in the political arena. If all the individuals in the village unite then there may be a possibility for the overall development of the village. Since they are on both sides they could not grab the political advantages, and often damaged with the political disadvantages. Though there are some individuals working for both political parties they are not strong enough to become potential leaders.
We can take Kotha Reddy Palem village as a model village, because even though all the village population are poor illiterates they are very concern about the education of their children. It is evident that, they don't want their children to struggle like them in the fields, they send each and every child to school. Recently, the village witnesses sound increase in the literacy rate. Unlike other Indian villages gender disparity is often bypassed for promoting child education. Kotha Reddy Palem village has one Primary School. With the parents initiation children are today able to join in prestigious institutions at state and national level.
One can say that being a small village with little number of people, students from this village have all kinds of educational backgrounds. Starting from polytechnic, social sciences, technological courses such as MCA, MBA and Engineering are the prime areas of their engagement.
Agriculture is the main source of the Income. Most of the farms in this village belong to marginal farmers and very few belongs to landlords. People mostly rely on money lenders because banks which are located in the nearest town Addanki are not interested in giving loans to the village people as they are serving the other villages such as Patha Reddy Palem. The village has three milk collection booths. There are two temples in the village i.e. Ramalayam and Poleramma tally temples.
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