Aruvankadu

Aruvankadu
Aruvankadu
Village
	Aruvankadu railway station
	Aruvankadu Location in Tamil Nadu, India
	Coordinates: 11°21′2″N 76°46′29″E / 11.35056°N 76.77472°E
Country	India
State	Tamil Nadu
Region	Kongu Nadu
District	The Nilgiris
Elevation	1,890 m (6,200 ft)
Languages
• Official	Tamil
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	643202
Telephone code	0423
Vehicle registration	TN 43
Nearest town	Coonoor
Lok Sabha constituency	Nilgiris
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Coonoor
	Temperature from Batchmates.com

Aruvankadu is a big village located in The Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu, India. It is located between Coonoor and Ooty on the NH 67, 6 km from Coonoor town and 12 km from Ooty. It is connected by frequent bus services from various towns and cities. Aruvankadu is also connected via the Nigiri Mountain Railway (NMR).

Industry

It houses the cordite factory, one of the 40 Indian Ordnance Factories.^[2] It is one of the oldest defence factories coming under the Ministry of Defence and the Indian Ordnance Factories. The cordite factory was established in 1903 by the then British Government on a huge campus and it still caters to the Defence Services by manufacturing cordite, an antiquated type of smokeless propellant, which is used in manufacturing small arms ammunition and also as a propellant in various tanks.^[2]

It is surrounded by small villages such as Balaji Nagar, Kara Korai, Jagathala, Othanatty, and Hosatty.

There are four schools (Kendriya Vidyalaya, Defence Employees Matriculation School, Cordite Factory Higher Secondary School and St. Anns Convent and Girls Higher Secondary School). There is also an apprentice college affiliated to the cordite factory.

The main sources of income for the local residents include employment at the Cordite factory, cultivation of Nilgiri tea and vegetables.

Notable people

British astronomer and physicist Robert Hanbury Brown, developer of the intensity interferometer and discoverer of the Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect, was born in this place, where he lived until 8 years old.

References

^ "Ooty: In the Lap of the Nilgiris". batchmates.com. Archived from the original on 24 February 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2008.
^ ^a ^b "About Aruvankadu". ofbindia.nic.in. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 31 August 2011.

External links

Indian Ordnance Factory website

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[1] "Ooty: In the Lap of the Nilgiris". batchmates.com. Archived from the original on 24 February 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2008.

[cf-2] "About Aruvankadu". ofbindia.nic.in. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 31 August 2011.

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