Transport

Transport:

The panchayat and zilla parishanth roads are very useful in transportation. The length of NH-5 highway in the district is 50 K.m. the 2 railway lines in the district madras Howrah guntur hubil are useful for transportation.

Political

Tanguturi prakasam panthulu who elected from Ongole was the first chief minister of the state. In his name, this district was formed on 2nd February 1970.

In  1997 bi-elections of martur, Gorripati narasaiah got the highest majority of 95 thousand votes. It is a record till date. Martur and Kambham constituencies were once and restored again. Yerragondapalem, podili and Ammanabrolu constituencies were once existed.

Parchuru constituency has a specialty. The members won from this constituency viz.. Gade venkata reddy, Daggupati venkateswara rao and jagarlamudi Lakshmi padmavathi got the post of ministers.

Divi kondaiah chowdary, elected from kandukur, worked as Assembly speaker and minister. Puli venkata reddy, elected from kanigiri, worked as central minister. Damacherla Anjaneyulu, was elected from kondepi, twice became minister.

Pidatala Rangareddy is the only person elected 5 times from Giddaluru and Kambham. He worked as Assembly speaker and minister. After Rangareddy his son vijayakumar reddy (T.D.P)  and due to to his sudden desire his wife sai kalpana Reddy has won the by election.

Prakasam District was termed as the birth place of agitations. Gujjala Elamanda Reddy  and his wife Sarala devi belong to the present we sent part of the district. The district has bee under the influence of communist leaders like pula subbaiah, sura papireddy and Elamanda reddy. Katuri Narayana Swamy has the privilege of defeating the then chief minister kasu brahmananda Reddy.

In 1967, cine actor Kongara jaggaiah was elected from Ongole parliament constituency. Before rectification no.of voters was 23, 64, 372 and after rectification it was the 19,24714 (2004).

population 30,98,502(2001) 31,72,860(2003) As per the final voters list 2004: Normal voters in  the district: Males: 9,47,270, Females: 9,77,707, Total: 19,24,977

In august 2005, four municipalities of this district were transferred to reserved category. One is reserved for woman general and the other three are reserved for BC general reservation where as in chirala under woman general.

In may 2006, for zilla parishad elections BC reservations are finalized and the details of BC voters in the district are as follows. Total population of BC'S : 18 lakhs, BC voters : 5.52 lakhs, 30.7% of total voters.