About Kuppam

Kuppam (Telugu: ) is a census town in Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh. It is 105km from Bangalore and 250km from Chennai by rail. It is known for its granite quarries and a granite variety, Kuppam Green, is named after the town. Kuppam has now become an educational hub with an engineering college, medical college and dravidian university. Kuppam shot to fame after the ex AP Chief Minister and the TDP supremo N. Chandra Babu Naidu won the elections from this constituency. He has been the MLA here since 1989. As of 2001 India census, Kuppam had a population of 18,803. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Kuppam has an average literacy rate of 69%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 75%, and female literacy is 62%. The native and official language of kuppam is Telugu. Tamil and Kannada are also spoken by a relative minority. Kuppam is an assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh. There were 1,61,872 registered voters in Kuppam...