Town Profile
- Pudupalayam Town Panchayat Located 34.00 K.M distance from Thiruvannamalai District.
- Nearest Railway Station Name : Tiruvannamalai , This Railway Station Located 34.00 k.m Distance from pudupalayam
- Nearest Airport Located in : Chennai
- Bus Route Details : : Polur To Chengam
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Festival Name | How many Days Celebrated | Which Month Celebrated | No of Peoples Participated | Notified/Non Notified |
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Nearest City Name | Direction | Distance from Town Panchayat |
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Tiruvannamalai | East | 34.00 K.m |
Tirupattur | West | 45.00 K.m |
Vellore | North | 90.00 K.m |
Thirukkovilur | South | 70.00 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.