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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Kadiri
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| settlement_type = [[Town]]
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| image_caption = Sri lakshmi Narasimha swamy temple, Kadiri
| pushpin_map = India Andhra Pradesh
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Andhra Pradesh, India
| coordinates = {{coord|14.12|N|78.17|E|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = [[India]]
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Andhra Pradesh]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Sri Sathya Sai district]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[List of mandals of Andhra Pradesh|Mandal]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Kadiri mandal]]
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| unit_pref = Metric
| area_footnotes = <ref name="basic info">{{cite web|title=Basic Information of Municipality|url=http://cdma.ap.gov.in/Kadiri/Basic_information_Municipality.html|publisher=Commissioner & Director of Municipal Administration|access-date=23 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150430165857/http://cdma.ap.gov.in/Kadiri/Basic_information_Municipality.html|archive-date=30 April 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| area_total_km2 = 25.88
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| elevation_m = 504
| population_total = 89,429
| population_as_of = 2011
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| demographics_type1 = [[Language]]
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| demographics1_info1 = [[telugu language|Telugu]]
| demographics1_title2 = Other
| demographics1_info2 = [[Urdu]]
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]
| postal_code = 515 591
| registration_plate = AP–39
| website = {{URL|http://kadiri.cdma.ap.gov.in/en}}
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'''Kadiri''' is a town in the [[Sri Sathya Sai district]] of the [[India]]n state of [[Andhra Pradesh]]. It is a municipality, mandal headquarters and also the revenue divisional headquarters Kadiri.<ref>{{cite web|title=Anantapur District Mandals|url=http://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/maps/atlas/28part32.pdf|publisher=Census of India|access-date=6 June 2017|pages=408|format=PDF}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url = http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/anantapur-gets-two-more-revenue-divisions/article4855117.ece|title = Anantapur gets two more revenue divisions|date = 27 June 2013|work = The Hindu|access-date = 10 June 2015|location = Anantapur}}</ref>

== Etymology ==
{{Unreferenced section|date=June 2017}}
The name Kadiri is an alternative name for the Sanskrit word, ''Khaadri'', meaning canary wood or Indian mulberry (''[[Morinda citrifolia]]''). The town has derived its name from the famous legend of Sri [[Narasimha]] Swamy described below, where the Lord emerges from a ''Khadri'' tree to rescue his devotee [[Prahlada]]. Sri Krishna Devaraya made an effort in building temple for Lord Narasimha which is now being visited by people all over the country.

==History==
[[File:Sathya Sai Baba 2013 stamp of India.jpg|thumb|150px|left]]
Sri Satya Sai district, with headquarters at [[Puttaparthi]], was created as per the Gazette notification No.154 dt 01.02.2022, with parts of [[Anantapur district|Ananthapuramu district]].<ref>{{cite web| url = https://srisathyasai.ap.gov.in/history/ | title= Sri Satya Sai District| work= About District > History|publisher= | access-date = 3 November 2023}}</ref> It is named after [[Sathya Sai Baba]], an Indian [[guru]] born in Puttaparthy.<ref name="Singleton, Mark| Goldberg, Ellen">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GSpnAQAAQBAJ&q=sai+baba+god+incarnate+academic+studies&pg=PT208|title=Gurus of Modern Yoga|isbn=978-0199374953|last1=Singleton|first1=Mark|last2=Goldberg|first2=Ellen|year=2013}}</ref><ref name="BabbLawrence">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B8bMjUt6AqIC|title=Redemptive Encounters: Three Modern Styles in the Hindu Tradition|last=Babb|first=Lawrence A.|publisher=[[University of California Press]]|year=1991|isbn=978-0520076365|page=164}}</ref>

== Geography ==
Kadiri is located at {{Coord|14.12|N|78.17|E|}}.<ref>[http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IN/02/Kadiri.html Falling Rain Genomics, Inc – Kadiri]</ref> It has an average elevation of 504 metres (1653 ft).

== Demographics ==
As of 2001 India [[census]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040616075334/http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archive-date=2004-06-16|title= Census of India 2001: Data from the 2011 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)|access-date=2008-11-01|publisher= Census Commission of India}}</ref> Kadiri is a Municipality city in district of Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh. The Kadiri Municipality has population of 89,429 of which 44,375 are males while 45,054 are females as per report released by Census India 2011.

== Government and politics ==
=== Civic Administration ===
Kadiri Municipality is the urban local body of the town, which was constituted on 28 August 1964.<ref name="info">{{cite web|title=Basic Information of Municipality|url=http://cdma.ap.gov.in/Kadiri/Basic_information_Municipality.html|website=Municipal Administration & Urban Development Department|publisher=Government of Andhra Pradesh|access-date=17 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150430165857/http://cdma.ap.gov.in/Kadiri/Basic_information_Municipality.html|archive-date=30 April 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> It has a jurisdictional area of {{convert|25.88|km2|mi2|abbr=on}} and is classified as a ''second grade municipality'' with 36 wards.<ref>{{cite web|title=Municipalities, Municipal Corporations & UDAs|url=http://dtcp.ap.gov.in:9090/webdtcp/Municipalities%20List-110.pdf|website=Directorate of Town and Country Planning|publisher=Government of Andhra Pradesh|access-date=29 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128175528/http://dtcp.ap.gov.in:9090/webdtcp/Municipalities%20List-110.pdf|archive-date=28 January 2016|format=PDF}}</ref>

== Economy ==
An industrial estate was established under [[Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation|APIIC]] in {{Convert|49.29|acre|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EImkWoFgqzcC|title=Growth And Performance Of Small Scale Industry|last=Narasaiah|first=M. Lakshmi|date=1999-01-01|publisher=Discovery Publishing House|isbn=9788171414680|page=51|language=en}}</ref>

== Transport ==
Kadiri railway station situated on [[Dharmavarm – Pakala Branch line]] and got into the mainline, after the 100 year age old MG line was converted into BG. It has many trains, including daily passenger trains running between Guntakal and Tirupati. A daily train runs through Kadiri connecting Hyderabad, the joint capital of Andhra Pradesh(From 2014 to 2024)-Telangana(Permanent) and Tirupati. It also has a weekly train running between Hyderabad and Madurai, Tamil Nadu.

Kadiri is on the National Highway 205, the Anantapur – Chennai road and has scores of buses to Chennai, Bengaluru, Vijayawada and Hyderabad by RTC buses and private travel agencies.

== Education ==
The primary and secondary school education is imparted by government, aided and private schools, under the ''School Education Department'' of the state.<ref>{{cite web|title=School Education Department |url=http://rmsaap.nic.in/Notification_TSG_2015.pdf |publisher=School Education Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh |access-date=7 November 2016 |format=PDF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151227185018/http://rmsaap.nic.in/Notification_TSG_2015.pdf |archive-date=27 December 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Department of School Education – Official AP State Government Portal {{!}} AP State Portal |url=http://www.ap.gov.in/department/organizations/school-education/ |website=www.ap.gov.in |access-date=7 November 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107155331/http://www.ap.gov.in/department/organizations/school-education/ |archive-date= 7 November 2016 }}</ref> The medium of instruction followed by different schools are English, Telugu, Urdu. Government Urdu High School is there near Clock Tower which offers Urdu as medium of instructions in Secondary education.

*Groundnut Agricultural Research Centre, Kadiri (a unit of Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University)
*[[Sericulture]] Research Institute, Kutagulla village, Kadiri Mandal.

==See also==
* [[Chandravadana and Mohiyar]]
* [[Sri Sathya Sai district#Administrative divisions|Revenue divisions and mandals in Sri Sathya Sai district]]

== References ==
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{{Municipalities of Andhra Pradesh}}
{{Sri Sathya Sai district}}

[[Category:Cities and towns in Sri Sathya Sai district]]
[[Category:Mandal headquarters in Sri Sathya Sai district]]

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