Punnelu is a village in Wardhannapet mandal, Warangal district, Telangana state in India.

This village is surrounded by five lakes which are the primary sources of irrigation water.

This village is within 10 km distance from Warangal city but thousands of kilometers distant from development.

This village was notified as GramPanchayat in mid '70s as far as the records available and the first and living sarpanch was muthireddy Venkat Remreddy.

After Ramreddy, Merugu Bikshapati served as Sarpanch for 15 years and then elected as Wardhannapet Mandal parishad president.