About Darsi

Darsi is a town, Mandal (administrative division) and assembly constituency of Prakasam district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. Darsi is located on Addanki - Podili Road. it is 154600N 794100E / 15.7667N 79.6833E / 15.7667; 79.6833 in the Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh. The town has a population of approximately 23,487. Darsi is the centre of a predominantly agricultural area. Kurichedu, 20 kilometres away, is the nearest railway station, on the Vijayawada-Guntakal railway line in the Guntur division of the South Central Railway and the nearest major station is at Ongole, 26 kilometres away. The nearest major airport is at Hyderabad which is at a distance of 210 kilometres. There is a small, reportedly disused, airport, Donakonda Airport, dating from the Second World War, at Donakanda, some 20 kilometres from Darsi. In the third and fourth centuries, in the early years of the Pallava dynasty, who originated from the Guntur region of Andhra Pradesh, Darsi was...