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词条 Pannaipuram
释义

  1. Demographics

  2. Name

  3. Agriculture

  4. Water Resources

  5. Personalities

  6. Neutrino Project

  7. Windmills

  8. References

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Pannaipuram is a panchayat town in Theni district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located hill foot of "Western Ghats" sharing its border with Kerala and has very good literacy.{{citation needed|date=May 2011}} Pannaipuram Town panchayat includes 4 villages namely Pannaipuram, Kariyanampatty, Mallingapuram and P. Renganathapuram. Mahalingeswarar Temple and Bommaiyaswamy Temple are located in Pannaipuram. Veereswarar Temple is located in Kariyanampatty. Most of the people in Pannaipuram are engaged in Cardamom cultivation in nearby Kerala hills.

Taluk: Uthamapalayam,

District: Theni,

Assembly Constituency: Cumbum(From 2011), earlier it was Bodinayakkanur.

Parliament Constituency: Theni

Demographics

{{As of|2011}} India census,[1] Pannaipuram had a population of 9323. Males constitute 49.6% of the population and females 50.4%. Pannaipuram has an average literacy rate of 74.93%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 82.58%, and female literacy is 67.42%. In Pannaipuram, 8.34% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Name

In Tamil Pannai means cattle farm and puram means village or small town. People who lived in the village were having cattle farm and mostly did agriculture. The cattle grazing grounds were at the western ghats foot hills adjacent to the village, hence the origin of name Pannaipuram.

Agriculture

Agriculture, cattle farms and brick manufacture are the major revenue source at Pannaipuram. Most of the tropical vegetables are grown.

Many of the residents of the village have Cardamom, Coffee, Tea, Black Pepper, Clove, Coco and beetle-nut plantations in the adjacent hills of western ghats. After the state divide on language basis the hills are now part of Kerala.

Water Resources

Underground water had been fully depleted, as the cultivation relies only on the same.

The 18th canal project, which was completed in 2008, helped in raising the ground water level.

Drinking water is drawn from the Mullai Periyar river running through the nearby town Uthamapalayam.

Personalities

Panaipuram is birthplace of the prominent film personalities;

Indian music director Ilaiyaraja and his family;

Gangai Amaran who is also a music director film director is his brother.

Yuvan Shankar Raja and Karthik Raja are his sons, Bhavatharini is his daughter.

Baskaran who was a cinema producer and Paavalar Varadharajan hail from Panaipuram as well.

Director Rathna kumar.

The Tamil film personalities Kasthuri Raja, Selvaraghavan and Dhanush also hails from the adjacent village Mallingapuram, which is just a furlong away.

Neutrino Project

Pannaipuram is just 5 kilometres south of the proposed Indian Neutrino observatory site.

Windmills

There are several windmills installed around the village, and currently generating energy.

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040616075334/http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archivedate=2004-06-16|title= Census of India 2011: Data from the 2011 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)|accessdate=2011-11-01|publisher= Census Commission of India}}

1 : Cities and towns in Theni district

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