Thuvakudi
Thuvakudi | |
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UTC+5:30 (IST) | |
PIN | 620015 |
Vehicle registration | TN-81 |
Thuvakudi
Thuvakudi comes under the
Geography and climate
Thuvakudi is located at 10°45′23″N 78°48′04″E / 10.756389°N 78.801111°E.
Climate data for Thuvakudi | |||||||||||||
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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
Year | Pop. | ±% |
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2001 | 35,428 | — |
2004 | 37,210 | +5.0% |
2008 | 38,970 | +4.7% |
2011 | 38,887 | −0.2% |
Sources: |
According to
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 | |
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Chairman | E. Kayambu[12] |
Vice-Chairman | A. Rajalingam[13] |
Commissioner | K.N. Sudha[14] |
Elected members | |
Member of Legislative Assembly | P.Anbil Mahesh Poiyamozhil |
Member of Parliament | S Tirunavukarasu[16] |
Thuvakudi was constituted as a
Thuvakudi comes under the
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.
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.
Education and utility services
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
Notes
Footnotes
- ^ The municipalities in Tamil Nadu are graded special, selection, grade I and grade II based on income and population.
Citations
- ^ "Thuvakudi". Falling Grain genomics Inc. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
- ^ "Weather data for Tiruchchirappalli, India". Canty and Associates LLC. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
- ^ a b c d e "Salient features". Thuvakudi municipality. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ a b "About the town". Thuvakudi municipality. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ Urban Infrastructure Report 2009, p. 62
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Urban Infrastructure Report 2008, p. 13
- ^ Urban Infrastructure Report 2008, p. 5
- ^ Urban Infrastructure Report 2008, p. 8
- ^ "Chairman of municipality". Thuvakudi municipality. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ "Vice Chairman of municipality". Thuvakudi municipality. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ "Commissioner of municipality". Thuvakudi municipality. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ a b "MLA of Thiruverumbur". Government of Tamil Nadu. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "About the municipality". Thuvakudi municipality. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ "Commissionerate of Municipal Administration". Commissionerate of Municipal Administration. 2006. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ "Councillors of municipality". Thuvakudi municipality. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ "Economic and political weekly, Volume 30". Sameeksha Trust. 1995: 2396.
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(help) - ^ "List of Assembly Constituencies". Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu state government. 2010. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
- ^ "Partywise Comparison Since 1977". Election Commission of India. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ "Thuvakudi Police". Thuvakudi municipality. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ a b Urban Infrastructure Report 2008, pp. 31-32
- ^ a b "How to reach". Thuvakudi municipality. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ a b Urban Infrastructure Report 2008, p. 9
- ^ "Educational Institutions". Thuvakudi municipality. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ "Important Address" (PDF). Indian Wind Power Association. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ "Water Supply Details". Thuvakudi Municipality. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ "Waste management programme". Thuvakudi Municipality. 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ Urban Infrastructure Report 2009, p. 25
References
- Urban Infrastructure report (2009). Conversion of City Corporate Plan into Business Plan (PDF) (Report). Tamil Nadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services Limited. Retrieved 29 December 2012.