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Athur, Thoothukudi
Authoor is a panchayat town in Thoothukudi district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Demographics , according to the India census, Authoor has a population of 14,470. 50% of the population is male, while 50% is female. Authoor has an average literacy rate of 79%, higher than the national average of 59.5%. Male literacy is 82% and female literacy is 76%. 12% of the population is under 6 years of age. Agriculture, water and natural resources Many of the people of Authoor are farmers of betel leaf, banana and rice. The quality of betel leaf from Authoor is famous for its quality in Tamil Nadu. Authoor is also famous for the Thamirabarani river surrounding the town. The river provides a majority of the water used for irrigation in and around the area. Authoor is a green town, surrounded by rice paddies and banana trees. The Thamirabarani River flows through the area, forming a big lake on one end. This makes the town a major attraction. Temples * Thousand-year-old Sr ...
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Panchayat Town
A nagar panchayat (town panchayat; ) or Notified Area Council (NAC) in India is a settlement in transition from rural to urban and therefore a form of an urban political unit comparable to a municipality. An urban centre with more than 12,000 and less than 40,000 inhabitants is classified as a nagar panchayat. Such councils are formed under the panchayati raj administrative system. In census data, the abbreviation T.P. is used to indicate a "town panchayat". Tamil Nadu was the first state to introduce the panchayat town as an intermediate step between rural villages and urban local bodies (ULB). The structure and the functions of the nagar panchayat are decided by the state government. Management Each nagar panchayat has a committee consisting of a chairman with ward members. Membership consists of a minimum of ten elected ward members and three nominated members. The NAC members of the Nagar are elected from the several wards of the nagar panchayat on the basis of adult fran ...
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Tiruchendur (Lok Sabha Constituency)
Tiruchendur was a Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu until 2008 constituency realignment. Assembly segments Before constituencies realignment of 2008, Tiruchendur Lok Sabha constituency used to be composed of the following assembly segments: *Cheranmadevi * Nanguneri * Radhapuram * Sathankulam * Tiruchendur *Kanyakumari. Members of the Parliament * After 2008 constituency realignment, this seat ceased to exist. Electorate In 2004, it had 10,31,362 of electorate, 4,95,753 men and 5,35,609 women. Election results General Election 2004 General Election 1999 General Election 1998 General Election 1996 General Election 1991 General Election 1989 By-election 1985 General Election 1984 General Election 1980 General Election 1977 General Election 1971 General Election 1967 General Election 1962 General Election 1957 See also * Thiruchendur * List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of ...
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Vazhavallan
Vazhavallan is a village located in Thoothukudi district of the state Tamil Nadu, India. It is located in Srivaikundam taluk. Korkaiyaan kaalvai, a stream cuts the village into two halves. The people living here are mostly Hindu Nadars. The Adhi Kilakathiyan swami temple, Parama Sakthi Amman temple located here has rich ancient history. The chief god of Adhi Kilakathiyan Swami temple is said to be the last pandya king koon pandyan's son. Now the major work of people is agriculture. This village town was situated in the bank of Thamiraparani. Vazhavallan is locally well known for a deep bore well which was built under the norms of Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board (TWAD Board) is a public agency formed by the Government of Tamil Nadu, under the Ministry of Local Administration and Water Supply, assigned with the task of implementing all water supply and sewerage ..., which supplies the Tamiraparani drinking water. Sc ...
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Umarikadu
Umarikadu is a village located in the Srivaikundam Taluk Thoothukudi district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Kurumbur railway station is the nearest, while Arumuganeri railway station, Nazareth railway station, Alwar Tirunagri railway station and Tiruchendur railway station Tiruchendur railway station is a major railway station in the pilgrim centre Tiruchendur of the Thoothukudi district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It connects the pilgrimage center of Tiruchendur to various destinations across the state. ... are in the vicinity. Schools * Government Higher Secondary School In Umarikadu there are primary and higher secondary schools up to 12th grade. Students from Korkai, Authoor, Valavallan and other villages nearby attend these schools. The people of Umarikadu support the schools through monetary and land grants both from the village fund and from private gifts. Banks * A Cooperative Bank provides financial services essential to the farmers in the vil ...
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Srivaikuntam
Tiruvaikuntam is a panchayat town in Thoothukudi district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located on the banks of the river Thamirabarani. Tiruvaikuntam has a temple dedicated to Vishnu, known as Tiruvaikuntapathi Swami, with a lofty gopuram. The Thiruvengada Mudaiyar Mandapam is rich with sculptures of Yallis, elephants and warriors. The Ekadasi Mandapam, which is opened on Vaikunta Ekadasi days, contains sculptures. During the period of conflict between the East India Company forces and Veera Pandiya Kattabomman, the temple served as a fort. The Kailasanathaswamy temple is another important temple and contains six inscriptions of the times of Kattabomman. Geography Tiruvaikuntam is located at . It has an average elevation of 17 metres (55 feet The foot ( : feet) is an anatomical structure found in many vertebrates. It is the terminal portion of a limb which bears weight and allows locomotion. In many animals with feet, the foot is a separate organ at the ...
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Thamirabarani River
The Thamirabarani or Tamraparni or Porunai is a perennial river that originates from the Agastyarkoodam peak of Pothigai hills of the Western Ghats, above Papanasam in the Ambasamudram taluk. It flows through Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi districts of the Tamil Nadu state of southern India into the Gulf of Mannar. It was called the Tamraparni River in the pre-classical period, a name it lent to the island of Sri Lanka. The old Tamil name of the river is Porunai. From the source to sea, the river is about long and is the only perennial river in Tamil Nadu. This river flows towards north direction initially. However, it changes to east direction later. Etymology From the Tamilakam era, the area of the Tamraparni river, in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, has had changes in its name, from the original ''Tan Porunai'' river to ''Tamira Porunai'', from ''Tamraparni'' to ''Tambraparni'' and now called "Thamirabarani River". A meaning for the term following its derivation became "copper-col ...
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Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include censuses of agriculture, traditional culture, business, supplies, and traffic censuses. The United Nations (UN) defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every ten years. UN recommendations also cover census topics to be collected, official definitions, classifications and other useful information to co-ordinate international practices. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in turn, defines the census of agriculture as "a statistical operation for collecting, processing and disseminating data on the structure of agriculture, covering th ...
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South Authoor
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz'' ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European root that the word ''sun'' derived from. Some languages describe south in the same way, from the fact that it is the direction of the sun at noon (in the Northern Hemisphere), like Latin meridies 'noon, south' (from medius 'middle' + dies 'day', cf English meridional), while others describe south as the right-hand side of the rising sun, like Biblical Hebrew תֵּימָן teiman 'south' from יָמִין yamin 'right', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna from יָמִין yamin 'right' and Syriac ܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ taymna from ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (hence the name of Yemen, the land to the south/right of the Levant). Navigation By convention, the ''bottom or down-facing side'' of a ...
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Thamirabarani River
The Thamirabarani or Tamraparni or Porunai is a perennial river that originates from the Agastyarkoodam peak of Pothigai hills of the Western Ghats, above Papanasam in the Ambasamudram taluk. It flows through Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi districts of the Tamil Nadu state of southern India into the Gulf of Mannar. It was called the Tamraparni River in the pre-classical period, a name it lent to the island of Sri Lanka. The old Tamil name of the river is Porunai. From the source to sea, the river is about long and is the only perennial river in Tamil Nadu. This river flows towards north direction initially. However, it changes to east direction later. Etymology From the Tamilakam era, the area of the Tamraparni river, in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, has had changes in its name, from the original ''Tan Porunai'' river to ''Tamira Porunai'', from ''Tamraparni'' to ''Tambraparni'' and now called "Thamirabarani River". A meaning for the term following its derivation became "copper-col ...
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, int ...
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Tiruchendur (State Assembly Constituency)
Tiruchendur State Assembly constituency ( ta, திருச்செந்தூர் சட்டமன்றத் தொகுதி) is one of the 234 state legislative assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu in southern India. It is also one of the 6 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Thoothukkudi Lok Sabha constituency Thoothukkudi Lok Sabha constituency ( ta, தூத்துக்குடி மக்களவைத் தொகுதி) is one of the 39 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Tamil Nadu, a state in southern India. Assembly Segmen .... It is one of the oldest assembly segments in Tamil Nadu since Independence. Madras State Tamil Nadu Election Results 2021 2016 2011 2009 By-election 2006 2001 1996 1991 1989 1984 1980 1977 1971 ...
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