Vembadithalam

Vembadithalam is a small village in Salem district of Tamil Nadu, India. The village is coming under Veerapandi Union. Vembadithalam means Land of Neem. Vembu is nothing but neem tree. Other nick names of this village are Vembai and Vems City. Salem is nearest city (15 km) for Vembai and well connected with NH47. Every half an hour public buses and private buses help to commute the people between Vems and Salem.

Overview

This village has one government primary school, a government higher secondary school and a government hospital with decent space and buildings. Very good compare to surrounding villages. It has very small public library and had very good movie hall but it was closed few years ago because of some financial reason.

Textile is most important business. Mostly Kannada devanga chettiar community people doing the textile business or they shown the way to other community people to follow the textile business. On every week Tuesday weaver gets weekly wages and they will do their purchases in near by weekly market. Sowdeswari Amman temple, Marriamman and Kaliamman temple, Subramaya swamy temple and Perumal and Kasi vishwanatha temple are major temples. Sowdeswari Amman festival and Marriamman and Kaliamman festival celebrated every year without fail. Whole village get the new color on those festival days. Sowdeswari Amman festival is celeberated in the month of January(Tamil month of Thai). The people belong to Devanga Kannada Chettiar family celeberate this Sowdeswari Amman festival and it is a 3 to 4 days festival having lots of activities like Knife dance(Kathi Dance), Sakthi, Jyothi etc. Ofcourse there will be lots of funs too like Orchestra (both clasical and western) and drama etc. Marriamman and Kaliamman festival celebrated every year in the Tamil month of 'Panguni'. It is also 2 to 3 days festival, there will be activities like Thee Gundam(walking on fire), pongal (making sweet food for Amman) and vandi vedikkai (show of decorated vehicles or bulluck carts with some themes) in the evening of last day.

Tamil Nadu’s first rural telephone exchange opened in Vembadithalam.[1].It happened because of two weavers from this village; they were persons who weaved the polyester with handloom and show the new market for polyester yarn. Their name is Mr. KMS Rangasamy Chettiar and Mr. KMS Mari Chettiar respectively. Then tamil nadu governer VV Giri came to village to honour them. These two legend helped the village to have decent Govt hospital, Govt Primary school and a very good & well maintained Govt Higher Secondary School. Students from sorrounding villages like Seeragapady, elampillai, vaikuntham, Sankakiri, Attayampatti, Vennandhur all are coming to this Government Higher Secondary School to pursue their study. This Government Higher Secondary School is well equipped with all Physics Lab,Chemistry Lab, Computer Labs and a wide eco friendly play ground. The one good thing about this school is whenever teacher counselling happen, teachers are literally willing to come to this school to serve their entire service.

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