Periya Negamam (also known as Negamam) is a

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 ...

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in the southern

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. It comes under

Pollachi Pollachi is a town and a taluk headquarters in Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu state, India. Located about to the south of Coimbatore, it is the second largest town in the district after Coimbatore. Pollachi is a popular Marketplace for ja ...

Taluk and

pollachi Pollachi is a town and a taluk headquarters in Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu state, India. Located about to the south of Coimbatore, it is the second largest town in the district after Coimbatore. Pollachi is a popular Marketplace for ja ...

Assembly constituency. Negamam used to be a popular small town serving the commercial and transport needs of many small villages around it until 1980s. With the arrival of frequent city buses to Pollachi and Udumalpet as transportation mode, growth of Negamam remained stunted. Weekly market on Tuesday used to be a big crowd puller.

Demographics

India

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, Periya Negamam had a population of 7680.

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constitute 51% of the population and

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49%. Periya Negamam has an average

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of 67%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 75%, and female literacy is 58%. In Periya Negamam, 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Geography

It consists of several

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. Amongst the popular villages is Senguttaipalayam, the birthplace of

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, Senior Congressional leader, Father of the

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in India, former Minister of Finance and Education in the Government of Tamil Nadu and former Union Minister for Food, Agriculture and Finance in the Government of India. Another politician from Negamam is K V Kandasamy Gounder. He was returned to the Assembly from this constituency thrice on an AIADMK ticket. He was widely considered to be the right-hand man of

M. G. Ramachandran Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran (17 January 1917 24 December 1987), also popularly known as M.G.R., was an Indian politician, actor, philanthropist, and filmmaker who served as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu from 1977 until his death in 1987 ...

. In the 1977 election he defeated the then DMK cabinet minister M. Kannappan. Other villages include Avalappampatti, Konde Goundan Palayam, Chinna Negamam and Kakkadavu (hub of the coir industries).

Educational institutions

Schools

* Government Higher Secondary School, Periya Negamam (including an NSS unit). * Government Girl's High School, Periya Negamam * Government Elementary School, Periya Negamam * Sri Vigneshwara Vidhyala School, Periya Negamam * Vivekananda Nursery & Primary school, Periya Negamam * Pollachi institute of technology at Avalappam Patti

Infrastructure

Transportation

Periya Negamam has a central bus stand which is used by TNSTC and the private operators. This is situated in the heart of the town. The town is well connected with

(10 km),

Coimbatore Coimbatore, also spelt as Koyamputhur (), sometimes shortened as Kovai (), is one of the major metropolitan cities in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located on the banks of the Noyyal River and surrounded by the Western Ghats. Coimbato ...

(30 km),

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(30 km),

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and

Udumalpet Udumalai, also known as Udumalaipettai and Udumalpet (), is a town in Tiruppur district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Udumalaipettai is located 535 km (332 mi) south west from the state capital, Chennai and 72 km (45 mi) away from Coimbator ...

by well laid roads. Government and private buses connect these towns. Nearest railway station is Pollachi (10 km) and major railway station is Coimbatore (30 km). Coimbatore also has an international airport.

Telecommunications

Periya Negamam is well connected with all GSM & CDMA mobile phone operators. The major players Jio, Airtel, BSNL, Tata Docomo, Reliance, Idea and Vodafone in GSM, and Tata Indicom in the CDMA segment all cover Periya Negamam.

Agriculture

Coconut farms are the main agricultural activity. Vast areas of this region are covered with coconut farms. small agrifarmers are available they are cultivate tomato, onion, chilli, coriander leaf,.

Employment

Most of the people's jobs are operating handlooms, making Negaman

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s (Cotton Sarees or Saris) in vibrant colours on handlooms. These handloom sarees are popular throughout Tamil Nadu.Craftsvilla website
/ref> Around 100,000 handloom sarees are made per month in the region.

References

{{Reflist Cities and towns in Coimbatore district