Town Profile

COIMBATORE DISTRICT

GUDALUR TOWN PANCHAYAT

             

TOWN HISTORY

 Gudalur Town Panchayat was constituted as Village Panchayat in 1949 and upgrade Second Grade Town Panchayat as per proceeding No.83/A/64-65 dated. 15.04.1966 of the Director of Rural Development, Chennai and upgraded in to 1970 as Ist Grade Town Panchayat as per Order No.205575/70 dt.15.12.1970 and upgraded into Selection Grade Town Panchayat in 1982 as per Order No.2774/82/K5 dt.04.02.1982 of Director of Rural Development, Chennai and functioning as such till date. The extent of the Town Panchayat is 29.21Sq.K.M.  The population of the Town Panchayat is 38859 as per 2011 census, consisting of Men  19707 and Women 19152

           

                                           Office Building 

HABITATIONS

                       This Town Panchayat is covering of 10 habitation for following are 1.Selvapuram, 2.Thirumalainaickenpalayam  3.Saranga Nagar 4. Samichettipalayam  5.G.Goundampalayam 6. Devayampalayam 7.Pudupudur 8.Palayapudur   9.Thekkupalayam 10.  Rawathakollanu

POLITICAL WING

                        The Panchayat council the Political arm of the Town consists of 18 elected councilors each representing a ward. The Chairman heads Town Panchayat council which performs its duties as per the provisions of the District Municipalities Act 1920.  The Political wing provides direction to the Town Panchayat and performs its functions through a set of committees constituted for different purposes.

EXECUTIVE WING

                        The Executive wing is responsible for day to day operations of the Town Panchayat and is headed by the Executive Officer.  The Executive Officer is the Administrative head of the Town Panchayat and is supported by different departments in the operations.  The Organizational structure comprises of Four functional department.

 LOCATION :

          GUDALUR Town Panchayat has a historical and cultural heritage.    There are number of substantial riots living in this town. The total revenue of the Town depends mainly on Agriculture and industries situated around  the  town limits. It is located at a distance of 20 Km from North Coimbatore and 2 Km from Nagai to Gudalur National Highway.

 FUNCTIONAL DEPARTMENTS

                        Gudalur Town Panchayat consists of Four functional departments.  Each department consists of Head who reports to the Executive Officer and functions as per the responsibilities prescribed in the Act and as delegated by the Town Panchayat Executive Officer.

Department	Functions
General Administration	Establishment, Accounts, Records, Correspondence, Treasury
Engineering	Works, Water supply, Operations and maintenance
Public Health	Preventive Health care, Conservancy, Vital Statistics
Revenue	Billing and collection of taxes, charges and fees

 

 PHYSICAL CHARATERISTICS :

The climate of the town, has a low  temperature and a high  degree of humility. The climate is Chill  in many parts of the year. Even though not subjected to extremes of climate between Maximum and Minimum temperature is only moderate and the variation in temperature from day to night is little and  give  relief from sweltering heat.

The annual Maximum temperature is 32.7⁰C and Maximum temperature is 24⁰. The highest temperature of 39.3⁰c occurs in the Month of April and lowest temperature of 16.7⁰C occurs in the month of February.The average rain fall for the town is above 27cms. The bulk of which is collected during the South – west monsoon period (i.e) from  June to October. The total number of rainy days in a year ranges from 70 to 95 days  an average. There are rain during summer also (March to May) best such Occasion of rainfall are few and for in between.

Commercially exploitable mineral resources are not found in the town. The predominant soil of the town is gravel and red sand with the advent of the  Bhavani river in West and a cancel running through the North of the town, the lands on  West  sides of these river becomes rich in fertile yielding more agriculture outputs. Sugarcane plantain, and coconut are the predominated crops cultivated in these travels.

 MASTER PLAN FOR GUDALUR

                        The existing administrative status of the town comes under the classification of  Town panchatat which is coming under the administration of Director of Town panchayats,  Government of Tamil Nadu. The development of the town is guided by the guidelines and instructions issued by Government of Tamil Nadu, Director of Town panchayats. Based on the 74^th amendment Act, the elected council has been formed which will take care of development and perspective plan of the town.

LAND USE PATTERN      

   Existing Land Use Break up of GUDALUR

Sl.No.

Land Use

Extent in Sq.Km

Percentage to total Developed &Undeveloped Area.

Percentage to Total Area.

1	Residential	7.73	7.12	25.09
2	Commercial	1.27	1.2	4.34
3	Industrial	2.23	10	7.58
4	Educational	2.85	16.09	9.75
5	Public & Semi Public	3.05	9.05	10.44
6	Agricultural	6.55	12	21.23
	a) Wet lands	4.15	15	14.21
	b) Irrigated Dry lands.	2.15	-	7.36
	c) Dry lands
	Total	29.98	70.46	100