[6] Dhulipalla Narendra Kumar of the Telugu Desam Party is the current MLA of the constituency, who won the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.

[2][10] Ponnur Municipality oversees the civic needs of the town, like water supply, roads, sewage, garbage collection, etc.

[15] The assembly segment is in turn a part of Guntur Lok Sabha constituency and the present Member of Parliament is Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani of the Telugu Desam Party.

The farming is dominant with paddy cultivation, and other crops include ground nuts, cotton, betel, etc.

[8] There are several other economic industries and occupations in the town, such as brickworks, furniture making, handloom weaving, spinning khadi yarn, rice mills, timber, etc.

[17] Legend about Ponnuru : Once there lived two brahmans namely Kasibhatlu, who was childless, and his sister's son, Nanduri Gunugovindu, with a deformed haunchback.

Instantly, Govindu called upon Bhava Narayana Swamy, a sacred river, and certain trees growing on the banks as witnesses.

[20] State Highway 48, also known as Guntur-Bapatla-Chirala Road, passes through Ponnur, which connects it with the district headquarter, Guntur.

[24] Zilla Parishad High School is the prominent one, run by the Panchayat Raj Department under the government of Andhra Pradesh.