Thuvakudi

Coordinates: 10°45′09.4″N 78°49′47.3″E / 10.752611°N 78.829806°E / 10.752611; 78.829806
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Thuvakudi
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PIN
620015
Vehicle registrationTN-81

Thuvakudi

Tiruchirapalli and Thanjavur
. The town has a dry weather, making it suitable for dry crops like cotton, chillies and millets..

Thuvakudi comes under the

Tiruchirapalli Airport
, located 25 km (16 mi) away from the town.

Geography and climate

Thuvakudi is located at 10°45′23″N 78°48′04″E / 10.756389°N 78.801111°E / 10.756389; 78.801111.

Tiruchirapalli and Thanjavur. Red soil is the most common type of soil, which is conducive for dry crops like chillies, cotton and groundnut. Thuvakudi is hot and dry for at least eight months of the year. The hottest months are from March to July during which the city experiences frequent dust storms. During this period, the days are extremely warm and dry while evenings are rendered cooler due to the cold winds that blow from the south-east. Thuvakudi experiences a moderate climate from August to October, tempered by heavy rain and thundershowers, and cool and balmy climate from November to February. Fog and dew are rare and occur only during the winter season. It receives an average annual rainfall of around 850 mm (33 in)[3][4]

Climate data for Thuvakudi
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 30.1
(86.2)
32.6
(90.7)
35.1
(95.2)
36.9
(98.4)
37.4
(99.3)
36.7
(98.1)
35.7
(96.3)
35.4
(95.7)
24.5
(76.1)
32.2
(90.0)
30.1
(86.2)
29.2
(84.6)
33.8
(92.8)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) 20.3
(68.5)
20.9
(69.6)
23.0
(73.4)
25.8
(78.4)
26.4
(79.5)
26.5
(79.7)
25.9
(78.6)
25.5
(77.9)
24.7
(76.5)
23.9
(75.0)
22.7
(72.9)
21.2
(70.2)
23.9
(75.0)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 14.3
(0.56)
5.4
(0.21)
9.5
(0.37)
50.5
(1.99)
65.2
(2.57)
34.9
(1.37)
60.6
(2.39)
85.5
(3.37)
146.6
(5.77)
191.5
(7.54)
131.8
(5.19)
84.4
(3.32)
880.2
(34.65)
Source: IMD

Demographics

Religious census
Religion Percent(%)
Hindu
83.68%
Muslim
5.05%
Christian
10.8%
Sikh
0.05%
Buddhist
0.03%
Jain
0.04%
Other
0.33%
No religion
0.03%

According to

Buddhists, 0.04% Jains, 0.33% following other religions and 0.03% following no religion or did not indicate any religious preference.[8]

In 2009, 45% population resided in slums, which is much higher than the normative standard of 10%.[9] The sex ratio of the town is 914 and the literacy rate is 78%.[10] In 2001, the population density of the town was 2465 persons/km2 and most of the residential area was concentrated around the Thuvakudi Malai area. The centre of the town and Thuvakudi Malai are the major residential centres. The workforce is 31% of the total population and 90% of the working population is engaged in tertiary sector activities. The town has a total area of 1,437 hectares (3,550 acres), and in 2001 65% of the land was used by industries like SIDCO, BHEL, industrial corridors and educational institutes like NIT and Government polytechnic. [11]

Municipal administration and politics

Municipality officials
Chairman E. Kayambu[12]
Vice-Chairman A. Rajalingam[13]
Commissioner K.N. Sudha[14]
Elected members
Member of Legislative Assembly P.Anbil Mahesh Poiyamozhil

[15]

Member of Parliament S Tirunavukarasu[16]

Thuvakudi was constituted as a

Town Panchayat and promoted to a third-grade municipality in 2004. It was promoted to a second-grade municipality in 2010. The Thuvakudi municipality has 21 wards covering an area of 14.7 km2 (5.7 sq mi) and there is an elected councillor for each of those wards.[17] The functions of the municipality are devolved into six departments: general administration/personnel, Engineering, Revenue, Public Health, city planning and Information Technology (IT). All these departments are under the control of a Municipal Commissioner who is the executive head.[18] The legislative powers are vested in a body of 21 members, one each from the 21 wards.[19] The legislative body is headed by an elected Chairperson assisted by a Deputy Chairperson.[20]

Thuvakudi comes under the

All India Anna Dravid Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) won the assembly seat four times (in 1980, 1984, 1991 and 2011 elections); Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam three times (DMK, 1977, 1996, 2001 and 2006 elections) and Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M) 1989).[22] The current MLA of the constituency is Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi from DMK.[15]

Law and order in the town in maintained by the Tiruchirapalli division of the Tamil Nadu Police headed by a Deputy Superintendent. There is one police stations in the town. There are special units like prohibition enforcement, district crime, social justice and human rights, district crime records and special branch that operate at the district level police division headed by a Superintendent of Police.[23]

Economy and transportation

Thuvakudi is an industrial town. The SIDCO industrial estate encompasses more than 250 industrial units which are located in and around the town.

Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) has a boiler plant and seamless steel tube processing centre, both of which are located within Thuvakudi municipal limits.[24][25] Thuvakudi, historically had a lot of stone quarries.[26]

The Thuvakudi municipality maintains 29.56 km (18.37 mi) of road. The town has 7.65 km (4.75 mi) concrete road, 10.4 km (6.5 mi) bituminous road, 5.95 km (3.70 mi) of WBM roads and 5.56 km (3.45 mi) of gravel roads.

NH 65, at a distance of 25 kilometres (16 mi) from Tiruchirapalli and 30 km (19 mi) from Thanjavur.[4] There are three major roads from Thuvakudi: Trichy-Thanjavur National Highways NH 65, Thuvakudi Malai-Ayyampatti State Highways and Thuvakudi-Kiranur state Highways. The Thuvakudi bus stand is located on NH 65 and has 12 bus shelters.[24] Thuvakudi is served by town bus service, which provides connectivity within the town and the suburbs. The nearest railway station is Thiruverumbur. The nearest local and international airport is the Tiruchirappalli International Airport[25]

Education and utility services

The National Institute of Technology, one of the premier engineering institutes in the country

In 2011, there were two primary schools, two middle schools and one higher secondary school. The Government Arts College in Thuvakudi Malai, Government Polytechnic, Trec-step, State Institute of Hotel Management & Catering Technology (SIHMCT), formerly known as Food Craft Institute (FCI) and National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli (NITT) are the colleges & institutes present in the town.[3][26][27]

Electricity supply to Thuvakudi is regulated and distributed by the

Kollidam river through two overhead tanks. In the period 2000–2001, a total of 2.2 million litres of water was supplied every day for households in the town.[29] As per the municipal data for 2011, about 8.85 metric tonnes of solid waste were collected from Thuvakudi every day by door-to-door collection and subsequently the source segregation and dumping was carried out by the sanitary department of the Thuvakudi municipality.[30] There is no underground drainage system in the town and the sewerage system for disposal of sullage is through septic tanks, open drains and public conveniences.[31] In 2011, the municipality maintained a total of 1,126 street lamps: 184 sodium lamps, four mercury vapour lamps and 990 tube lights. The municipality operates one market and a bus stand.[3]

Notes

Footnotes

Citations

  1. ^ "Thuvakudi". Falling Grain genomics Inc. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
  2. ^ "Weather data for Tiruchchirappalli, India". Canty and Associates LLC. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Salient features". Thuvakudi municipality. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  4. ^ a b "About the town". Thuvakudi municipality. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  5. ^ Urban Infrastructure Report 2009, p. 62
  6. ^ a b "Census Info 2011 Final population totals - Thuvakudi". Office of The Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
  7. ^ a b "Census Info 2011 Final population totals". Office of The Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
  8. ^ "Population By Religious Community - Tamil Nadu" (XLS). Office of The Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2011. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  9. ^ Urban Infrastructure Report 2008, p. 13
  10. ^ Urban Infrastructure Report 2008, p. 5
  11. ^ Urban Infrastructure Report 2008, p. 8
  12. ^ "Chairman of municipality". Thuvakudi municipality. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  13. ^ "Vice Chairman of municipality". Thuvakudi municipality. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  14. ^ "Commissioner of municipality". Thuvakudi municipality. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  15. ^ a b "MLA of Thiruverumbur". Government of Tamil Nadu. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  16. ^ "General Elections to Lok Sabha, 2019, name and address of the elected members of parliamentary constituencies in Tamil Nadu". Government of Tamil Nadu. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  17. ^ "About the municipality". Thuvakudi municipality. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  18. ^ "Commissionerate of Municipal Administration". Commissionerate of Municipal Administration. 2006. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  19. ^ "Councillors of municipality". Thuvakudi municipality. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  20. ^ "Economic and political weekly, Volume 30". Sameeksha Trust. 1995: 2396. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  21. ^ "List of Assembly Constituencies". Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu state government. 2010. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  22. ^ "Partywise Comparison Since 1977". Election Commission of India. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  23. ^ "Thuvakudi Police". Thuvakudi municipality. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  24. ^ a b Urban Infrastructure Report 2008, pp. 31-32
  25. ^ a b "How to reach". Thuvakudi municipality. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  26. ^ a b Urban Infrastructure Report 2008, p. 9
  27. ^ "Educational Institutions". Thuvakudi municipality. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  28. ^ "Important Address" (PDF). Indian Wind Power Association. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  29. ^ "Water Supply Details". Thuvakudi Municipality. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  30. ^ "Waste management programme". Thuvakudi Municipality. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  31. ^ Urban Infrastructure Report 2009, p. 25

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