Karaiyippatti
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Karaiyippatti is a town and a
Karaiyippatti is a manufacturer and exporter of ploughs. Granite production is an important industry; granite from Karaiyippatti is exported around the world. Situated within a largely agricultural area, most of the people living around Karaiyippatti are employed in agriculture, chiefly in the cultivation of rice.
Geography
Karaiyippatti has an average elevation of 149 metres (489 ft). To get the directions www
Demographics
As of the census of India 2001, Karaiyippatti had a population of 33,881 comprising 17,238 males and 16,643 females, making the sex ratio (number of females per thousand males) of the town 965. A total of 3,947 people were under six years of age and the child sex ratio (number of females per thousand males under six years of age) stood at 900. The town had an average literacy of 84.74%, higher than the national average of 59.5%. A total of 3,978 comprising 13.29% of the population belonged to
Transport
Madurai Airport is the nearest airport for Karaiyippatti, which operates domestic flight services such as Air India, Jet Airways and Spice Jet.
Karaiyippatti has a bus stand, which is used by
Politics
Karaiyippatti assembly constituency is part of
The major political parties in Karaiyippatti are
. Kakkan (late), state minister during Kamarajar period was born in Karaiyippatti. A statue is laid near Chekkadi.References
- ^ "Primary census abstract 2001". Directorate of Census Operations – Tamil Nadu. 2001. Archived from the original on 17 February 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ "List of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies" (PDF). Tamil Nadu. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 October 2008. Retrieved 11 October 2008.
- ^ "17th Lok Sabha Elections: Victorious Candidates of CPI(M)". People's Democracy. Communist Party of India (Marxist). 2 June 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
Su Venkatesan who contested from Madurai parliamentary constituency secured 4,47,075 (44 per cent) votes defeating his nearest rival (AIADMK candidate) by a margin of 1,34,119 votes.