Keeripatty Town Panchayat

Town Profile

  1. Keeripatty Town Panchayat Located 54.00 K.M distance from Salem District.
  2. Nearest Railway Station Name : Attur , This Railway Station Located 17.00 k.m Distance from keeripatty
  3. Nearest Airport Located in : Salem
  4. Bus Route Details : : Attur to Thammampatty Main road
  1. Pamputhai Temple - Ward No : 11 - Street Name - Kattukottai
  2. Solaivarathan Temple - Ward No : 9 - Street Name - Kattukottai, anna nagar
  3. Mariyamman Temple - Ward No : 7 - Street Name - Mariyamman kovil street
Festival Name How many Days Celebrated Which Month Celebrated No of Peoples ParticipatedNotified/Non Notified
-0JAN0NON-NOTIFIED
Nearest City Name Direction Distance from Town Panchayat
PerambalurEast72.00 K.m
SalemWest54.00 K.m
AtturNorth17.00 K.m
TrichySouth97.00 K.m

Town Profile

KEERIPATTY TOWN PANCHAYAT
SALEM DISTRICT

TOWN HISTORY

   Keeripatty is one of the First Grade Town Panchayat in Salem District, Which is Urban Local Body coming under the preview of the Director of Town Panchayats, Chennai, Government of Tamilnadu.  This Town Panchayat is First Grade Local Body as per the Classification and the total population of Local body is 10208 as per 2011 Census. Further floating population of the town is 50 coming from the nearby Villages for working. There are 15 Wards and 1 Numbers of habitations.  The total area of Town Panchayat is 26.87 Sq.km.

TOWN ADMINISTRATION

            The Keeripatty Town Panchayat  was constituted Village Panchayat before 1971 and further it was upgraded to First Grade Town Panchayat from 01-06-1971 and  functioning as such till date.  The extent of the Panchayat is 26.87 Sq.K.M.  The  population of the  Town Panchayat is  10208  as per 2011  census, consisting  men 5174 and 5034 women.

                        The town was  delineated to 15 Administration wards.  The Urban local Body elections were held on 25.10.2011 for the posts  of Town Panchayat Chairman and 15 Councillors.

LOCATION

               Keeripatty known originally as Ananthagiri is. situated on the banks of river vashistanadi.  Attur lies between 11`30` and 11` 40` Northern Latitude and between 78` 30` and 78` 40` Eastern Longitude.  It is located at a distance of 12 kilometres South of Attur on the Thammampatty-Attur  State highway. It is located at a distance of 75  kilometres west of Salem And the Boundaries are noted as below.

North  :  Kadasamy Pudur

East     :  Rasipuram Forest

South  :  Nagiampatty

            West    :  Paithur Forest

OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURES

            The main functions of this town are the  primary and tertiary activities. This town can be considered as Bi-functional town.  The work force constitutes about 38% of the population. 48% of the work force is engaged in agriculture, 13% in small Industries (Small scale and cottage) and 39% in trading and other activities.  There are no major industries within the jurisdiction of the local body. The town serves as an important source of supply for agricultural inputs and implements other services  to the adjoining areas.