Kaveripattinam (Dharmapuri)
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| Coordinates | 12°25′N 78°14′E / 12.42°N 78.23°ECoordinates: 12°25′N 78°14′E / 12.42°N 78.23°E |
| Country | India |
| State | Tamil Nadu |
| District(s) | Krishnagiri |
| Population | 14,417 (2001[update]) |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+05:30) |
| Area |
• 454 metres (1,490 ft) |
Kaveripattanam is a panchayat town in Krishnagiri district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is approximately 100 km from Bangalore. The town is very green because of the KRP Dam nearby. Kaveripattanam is famous for its cultivation of mangoes. There are lot of mango pulp industries, milk processing units and small scale industries.
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[edit] Geography
Kaverippattanam is located at 12°25′N 78°14′E / 12.42°N 78.23°E.[1] It has an average elevation of 454 m (1,490 ft).
[edit] Demographics
As of 2009[update] India census,[2] Kaveripattanam had a population of 1,14,417. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Kaveripattanam has an average literacy rate of 74%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 81%, and female literacy is 67%. In Kaveripattanam, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Now Kaveripattanam comes under Krishnagiri District, a newly carved out district from Dharmapuri.
A beautiful river called as 'South Pennar' passes through Kaveripattanam which adds more glory and greenish to this tiny town.
Festivals like Maha Shivaraathiri, Pongal are very famous in this area.
The people are highly cultured and polite with everyone. Kaveripattanam owns the districts biggest Boys Higher Secondary School. There are about 50 match industries in this town. There are about 40 milk gova industries in this town.
Now in this small town there are about 40 jewellery shops. most of them are new jewellery shops.
==Famous Large and Small Scale Industries== Mango Pulp Industries (around 40 industries and upcoming are more). Match Box Industries (Major exports), runs all over India. Milk gova industries (around 40 industries and upcoming are more)
[edit] Politics
Kaveripattanam assembly constituency is part of Krishnagiri (Lok Sabha constituency).[3]
The District 60% of revenue is from this town alone.
[edit] References
- ^ Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Kaverippattanam
- ^ "Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 2004-06-16. http://web.archive.org/web/20040616075334/http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
- ^ "List of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies". Tamil Nadu. Election Commission of India. http://archive.eci.gov.in/se2001/background/S22/TN_ACPC.pdf. Retrieved 2008-10-12.
People of this town really don't tend to work under anyone, instead they chose a business(small scale industries) few to name would be (Milk cova manufacturing, Nippets(fried biscuits), puffed rice, oil mills & milk dairies) interesting part of this town is people here always love celebrations & festivals, the 2 biggest festivals are pongal & maha shivarathri, shiv rathari is cleberated for two days & 2nd day event is popularly known as angalamman thiruvila pulls the crowds from the surrounding villages too the event starts in the morning with people getting pierced there cheeks, tongue & back with a trishul or vel, at around twelve in the noon comes the unexpected that's the kali mathas people dressed up as kallis start to dance (rudhra thandavam) at the temple this dance is very aggressive kallis carry weapons like knife & trishul which is dangerous to people around them who try to take a glimpse of there dance by then the chariot from the temple stats moving towards the river near by, they all reach the river ans the festival ends.
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