Sengipatti is a village in Budalur taluk on the Tanjore–Trichy National Highway of

Tanjore district Thanjavur District is one of the Districts of Tamil Nadu, 38 districts of the States and territories of India, state of Tamil Nadu, in southeastern India. Its headquarters is Thanjavur. The district is located in the delta of the Cauvery River ...

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a States and union territories of India, state in southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of India ...

. It is located 23 kilometers from

Thanjavur Thanjavur (), also Tanjore, Pletcher 2010, p. 195 is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Thanjavur is the 11th biggest city in Tamil Nadu. Thanjavur is an important center of South Indian religion, art, and architecture. Most of the Gr ...

33 kilometers from

Tiruchirapalli Tiruchirappalli () ( formerly Trichinopoly in English), also called Tiruchi or Trichy, is a major tier II city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the administrative headquarters of Tiruchirappalli district. The city is credited with bein ...

46 kilometers from

Pudukkottai Pudukkottai is the administrative headquarters of Pudukkottai District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is a large city located on the banks of the Vellar River. It has been ruled, at different times, by the mutharaiyar dynasty , Cholas, ...

65 kilometers from

Ariyalur Ariyalur () is a town and district headquarters of Ariyalur district in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu and is rich in limestone, surrounded with seven cement factories and two sugar factories. The town is located at a distance of from th ...

and 66 kilometers from

kumbakonam Kumbakonam (formerly spelt as Coombaconum or Combaconum) or Kudanthai is a city municipal corporation in the Thanjavur district in the States of India, Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located from Thanjavur and from Chennai and is the headq ...

. It is the main junction of bus routes for Thanjavur, Trichy and Pudukottai districts. The Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Tuberculosis Sanatorium is a landmark. The village is the most westerly village located in Thanjavur district and is situated on the frontier with Tiruchirapalli district.

SASTRA University The Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy, also known as SASTRA, is a private and deemed university in the town of Thirumalaisamudram, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India. SASTRA is ranked by global ranking agencies such as ...

is located just 7km from Sengipatti while

National Institute of Technology Trichy National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (NIT Tiruchirappalli or NIT Trichy) is a public technical and research university near the city of Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, India. It was founded as Regional Engineering College Tiruchirapp ...

is located 17km away. It is one of the developing villages and has more industries addition to that the state government has set up

Government College of Engineering, Thanjavur Government Engineering College (GCE), Thanjavur is a government engineering college in Thanjavur, Tamilnadu, India. It was established in 2012 and offers various courses in UG in Engineering and Technology and it is accredited from UGC and it is ...

in 2012. The proposed

All India Institutes of Medical Sciences The All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is a group of autonomous government public medical universities of higher education under the jurisdiction of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare , Government of India. These institutes ha ...

for Tamil Nnadu was likely to be built here. But it is constructed in Madurai district. Sanoorapatti is a prime spot located on national highway of Trichy and Thanjavur, Sengipatti is located 1 km from Sanoorapatti and National Highway.

Importance

Sengipatti has risen in importance due to the emergence of The Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Tuberculosis Sanatorium.

Education

Government College of Engineering and RVS Agricultural College are the two important educational institutes present in Sengipatti.

Demographics

As per the 2011 census, Sengipatti had a population of 4271 with 2115 males and 2156 females. The sex ratio was 1019 which is higher than Tamil Nadu state average of 996 and the literacy rate was 78.99% as compared to 80.09% of Tamil Nadu.

References

* *{{Citation , title= Thanjavur census data , url=http://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/3319_PART_B_DCHB_THANJAVUR.pdf Villages in Thanjavur district