This duo town has some of the oldest colleges like  Agricultural University, bapatla engineering college( one of the oldest private engineering colleges in Andhra + Telangana)   Chirala - vrs yrn education society ( one of the oldest well eqstablished arts college) and two other engineering colleges..pharma colleges .. Still the duo towns hasn't seen the development , it still looks like 70s , while many politicians, actors including chiru , venkatesh , Rana studied here...ca