Town Profile
- Madukkarai Town Panchayat Located 11.00 K.M distance from Coimbatore District.
- Nearest Railway Station Name : Madukkarai Railway Station , This Railway Station Located 2.00 k.m Distance from madukkarai
- Nearest Airport Located in : Coimbatore International Airport
- Bus Route Details : : Moffussile bus route connecting with NH 47 to Kerala State and Connecting bus route to Gandhipuram
- Dharmalingeshwarar Temple - Ward No : 18 - Street Name - DharmalingeshwararnKoil Street, Marappalam.
Festival Name | How many Days Celebrated | Which Month Celebrated | No of Peoples Participated | Notified/Non Notified |
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Girivalam in every full moon day and Chitra Powrnami Girivalam celebrated during the month of April | 1 | APR | 10000 | NON-NOTIFIED |
Nearest City Name | Direction | Distance from Town Panchayat |
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Othakkalmandapam | East | 12.00 K.m |
Wastern Ghat | West | 0.00 K.m |
Thirumalayampalayam | North | 2.00 K.m |
Kunimuthur | South | 1.00 K.m |
COIMBATORE DISTRICT
MADUKKARAI SPECIAL GRADE
TOWN PANCHAYAT
TOWN PROFILE
1.Introduction
Madukkarai is a Special Grade Town Panchayat in Coimbatore District in Tamilnadu State. Madukkarai belongs to Pollachi Parlimentary Constituency and Kinathukadavu Assembly Constituency. Madukkarai lies at the border of Western ghats located at Coimbatore – Palghat National Highways with an area of 21.47 sq.km. Madukkarai Town Panchayat consists of 18 wards. Each ward is maintained by a elected representative. The town primarily comprises Residential, Commercial and Institutions. ACC Cement factory is the main industry in Madukkarai Town Panchayat.
2. Demographics
The
town is situated at a distance of about 12km from the District headquarters and
Coimbatore City Corporation. As per 2011 Census, Madukkarai had a population of
30357. Males contribute 49.7% of the population and females 50.3%. Madukkarai
has an average literacy rate of 84.39% higher than state average of 80.09%.
Male literacy rate is 89.77 and Female literacy rate is 79.10%.In
Madukkarai 10.04% of the population is under 6 years of age.
3. Geology and Soil Condition.
The general lithology of the Madukkarai area is that, top
soil is found in the first 5 meters and
above 5 meters hard rock, and got ground
water level is 200-300 meters. The
ground water is partially potable in this Town.
4. Temples
There are small temples, churches and mosques in the Town Panchayat area. But the important temple is The Dharmalingeswarar Temple which the temple lies on the peak of the mountain and the God is Lord Siva. Every month during full moon day, nearly 5000 peoples comes to attend the Girivalam.
5. Trade.
ACC Cement factory is the main industry in Madukkarai. Some people works in the factory and some peoples are doing transport business to transport the raw materials to the company and cements from the company. And also there are some small scale industry, some depends on agriculture and some are labourers.
6. Roads
The National Highways of
about 16 kms and State Highways of about 5kms lies in Madukkarai Town Panchayat
area. The Roads maintained by Town Panchayat is 53.70 kms. As many transports
travel through Madukkarai because it connects Coimbatore and Palghat.
7. Institution
Madukkarai Town
Panchayat has 2 Higher Secondary School, 4 High School, 2 Middle School, 4 Elementary
School, 1 Kalyana Mandapam, 1 Primary Health Centre , 2 Private Nursing Homes and 4 Colleges, 2
Polytechnic and 2 Nursing colleges.
8. Water Supply
Present population
of the town is 30,357 The source of Drinking
water is Pillur Dam Water from Athikadavu
which is maintained by TWAD. Water is pumping and supplying through 9 OHT’s constructed in 9 places. There are 73 power pump and
36 Handpump and 9 openwells for Local source. At present 92 LPCD from Drinking water and 42 LPCD from
Local source totally 134 LPCD supplied by
Madukkarai Town Panchayat. In this Town Panchayat drinking water is supplied through
Public Tap and Private connections.
9. Solid waste Management.
The collection, transportation and disposal of Town Panchayat solid waste is an obligatory function of the Madukkarai Town Panchayat . The Town Panchayat solid waste mainly comprises waste from households and commercial establishments in the town. The health department of the Town Panchayat, headed by Sanitary Supervisor, is responsible for the solid waste management of the town. For the efficient administration and for day to day operation purposes, the town is divided into Two sanitary divisions covering all the 18 Town Panchayat wards. There are 2 Sanitary Supervisors and 29 Sanitary workers in this Town Panchayat. Door to Door collection is practised in Madukkarai Town Panchayat. All the wates are collected (Primary and Secondary collection) and transported to Resource Recovery park through Public health vehicles and the wastes are processed and both bio-compost and vermi-compost are produced and sold in Madukkarai.
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