Pudupalayam Town Panchayat

Town Profile

  1. Pudupalayam Town Panchayat Located 34.00 K.M distance from Thiruvannamalai District.
  2. Nearest Railway Station Name : Tiruvannamalai , This Railway Station Located 34.00 k.m Distance from pudupalayam
  3. Nearest Airport Located in : Chennai
  4. Bus Route Details : : Polur To Chengam
  1. - - Ward No : 0 - Street Name - -
Festival Name How many Days Celebrated Which Month Celebrated No of Peoples ParticipatedNotified/Non Notified
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Nearest City Name Direction Distance from Town Panchayat
TiruvannamalaiEast34.00 K.m
TirupatturWest45.00 K.m
Vellore North90.00 K.m
ThirukkovilurSouth70.00 K.m

PUDUPALAYAM TOWN PANCHAYAT

TIRUVANNAMALAI DISTRICT

PROFILE


Introduction

            Pudupalayam Grade Second Town Panchayat is situated within pudupalayam panchayat union,  Chengam  Talk and Tiravannamalai District.  Formulated during the year 1958,  this Town Panchayat consist of 15.6 Sq Kms.  This is at Bangalore Road at 33kms away from the famous Annamalaiyar Temple located in Tiruvannamalai.  The district  head quartes and being called  as Temple town.  Agri culture is the prime occupation of this Town Panchayat.   In this town panchayat thare are 123 Streets in 12 Ward.  In this town panchayat.   129 no. of. CFL & 170 no. of LED Lights, 88 no. of Solar Lamps, 1 nos of Highmast light  is well maintained.

 

Pudupalayam  Town Panchayat has total administration over 2,652 houses to which it supplies basic amenities like water and sewerage.  It is also authorize to build roads within Town Panchayat limits and impose taxes on properties coming under its jurisdiction.

 

Pudupalayam  is also one of the assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu. Pudupalayam is separated from Chengam suburban Taluk and was announced as a separate and New Taluk by Tamil Nadu's government.

 

Demographic & Geographic of Pudupalayam  Town Panchayat


As of 2011 India census Pudupalayam  had a population of 11,384. Males constitute 49% of the population and females 51%. Pudupalayam has an average literacy rate of 60.6%, higher than the national average of 60.6%: male literacy is 65.3%, and female literacy is 44.7%. In Pudupalayam, 13.2% of the population is under 6 years of age.

 

In the nearest of Tiruvannamalai holy places Sri Seshadri Swamigal Ashram, Sri Ramana Ashram, Yogi Ram Surathkumar Ashram are pilgrims. Pudupalayam  Town can be reached from Adivaram Fort by road by traveling 5 kilometres due North.


 

History of the District

 

Pudupalayam  Town Panchayat is situated in Tiruvannamalai District . The famous historical temple Arunachaleswarar is situated in Tiruvannamalai  which is well known temple of Tamilnadu. It is famous due to the pilgrims girivalam on full moon days of every month towards  a distance of 33 km around the Arunachaleswarar  temple.

 

Environmental Management (SWM)

 

In Pudupalayam Town Panchayat  11 Public Health workers and one Sanitary supervisor is engaged in the field of public health to maintain the public health.  For public health purpose one Tractor with Tipper engaged to collect the garbage's and solid waste generated in the town panchayat area.  The above mentioned vehicle are used to collect the garbage's daily in Kalyana Mandabam, Schools, Bus Stops, Temples  and other important public areas.  The Schools garbage's are segregated and sent to the compost yard.

 

The door to door solid waste collection was started from December 2007 and done in 8 wards out of 10 wards daily by Pushcarts with the help of women SHG group.  The plastic garbage's are collected separately and stock at this compost yard.   The drainages are cleaned once in week by the sanitary workers.  Power spraying is done using baytex and other mosquito killing minerals, once in 15 days in all town panchayat areas

 

            Solid waste collected from door to door is segregated in the compost yard and Bio degradable Solid waste are made natural manure for agriculture purpose .Other solid waste plastics glass etc are sold for recycling purpose. The natural manure produced is sold at rate of Rs.5/- kg for the agriculture purpose .Thus the solid waste management scheme is functioning profitable manner in this Town Panchayat.

 

The Town Panchayat is have its own  compost park which is situated in survey No.17/3 at an extent of  2.5 acres. The Town Panchayat obtained No Objection to above site from Tamilnadu pollution Control Board. There is a Veeranandal, Pudupalayam, G.N.Palayam, K.K.Palayam in this town panchayat.


 

 

Soild Waste Management (SWM) Profile:

 

            Pudupalayam Town Panchayat consist of 12 wards. The whole town consist of 75 streets covered under this solid waste collecting system. In that area daily from 6 am to 9.30 am the garbage's are collected door to door by women’s SHG by Pushcarts. Nearly 0.6 ton garbage's collected daily by Pushcart and tractors which is used in  public health work.  The collected garbage's are segregated  as Bio degradable garbage's and non Bio degradable garbage's daily in the compost yard from 2pm to 5pm. The Bio degradable solid waste are kept in tubs in the solid waste management shed and it is made natural manure after period of 60 to 70 days with proper method of converting as compost. Now the entire operation of converting solid waste compost done in this tubs properly .

 

WATER SUPPLY HOUSE SERVICE CONNECTIONS

         As  per  the Tamil Nadu  Panchayat  Act, 1994, the Town Panchayat Executive Officer may at his discretion on application by the owner or by the occupier of  any  building arrange  to supply water through House Service  Connections

         Pudupalayam Town Panchayat has framed a separate water supply bye-law for adoption by the consumer incorporating various terms and conditions.  The total number of house service  connections in a Pudupalayam Town Panchayat area is restricted to the sanctioned capacity of water supply scheme in force in a Town Panchayat.

 

K.K.PALAYAM   AMMA KULAM

 

            Ammakulam is situated over an extent of sacus at K.K.Palayam within the Jurisdiction of Pudupalayam Town Panchayat.  The Kulam has been formed over on extent of 2 acres,  before 150 years during the pevtod of kuigdorn.  This tank is the main source of drinking water of the peofoce  of K.K.Palayam, G.N.Palayam, Veerananal Samalai and Adivaram around Pudupalayam.  100 Acres  of land around this tank are being cultivated by 45 agricultures.   It is not exaggerate to state that this tank helps to strengthen up  the ground water of those agriculturists.


 

 

            Being not reamed for long time,  Amma Kulam has been taken up by NABARD Scheme under improvement of Drinking water sources with an estimate of Rs. 20.00 Lakhs and renovating works started.   By the work of cleaning the silt and renovation of the tank,  now the tank overflows resulting benefiting the leads around the tank,  to raise water level in the deep  bore wells and nearly 500 wells in near by houses.

 

CLEANING OF THE CHANNEL  THROUGH  ' THAMARI KADU'

 

            As the in flow channel through 'Thamari Kadu'  to Ammakulam  has not been cleared  for a long time it was silted up completely blacking the water flow.  Therefore  ensidering  the necessity  to clean the 482 meters length of channel through ' Thamari Kadu'  at S.No. 1 , 9 and 11  a length of  125 Meters have been cleared after obtaining the permission from the State Forest Department.  Now three is free flow of water through this channel to Ammakulam.

 

PLANTING SEEDLINGS AROUND THE AMMAKULAM

 

            The Ammakulam at K.K.Palam with in Puudplayam Town Panchayat now refermad.  In the vacant site,  available around the tank,  seadlings   have been plented by Forest Departmet,  president of Town panchayat,  Members of Town Panchayat, Executive Officer of the Town panchayat and employees of the Town Panchayat.   But of this 12  Navel, 15 Poovarasan,  5 Kalkuruinji,  15 Pungan,  13 Vengai and 20  Teek Wood  have been planted.  By  planting this seedlings wags  and means have been provided  ten improvement of environment.