Kovilambakkam

Kovilambakkam

Sunnambu Kolathur, Chinna Kovilambakkam & Periya Kovilambakkam
Kovilambakkam Sunnambu Kolathur, Chinna Kovilambakkam & Periya Kovilambakkam
Rural Village
	Kovilambakkam Panchayat Office
	Kovilambakkam
	Coordinates: 12°56′45″N 80°12′05″E / 12.9457357°N 80.2014543°E
Country	India
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Chengalpattu
Taluk	Tambaram taluk
Village Panchayat	Kovilambakkam
Panchayat Union	St. Thomas Mount
Government
• Type	Panchayat
• Body	Kovilambakkam Village Panchayat
Population (2011)
• Total	27,374
Languages
• Official	Tamil
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	600129
Telephone code	91-44
Vehicle registration	TN-14
Lok Sabha constituency	Chennai South
Legislative Assembly constituency	Sholinganallur_(state_assembly_constituency)
Website	http://www.kanchi.tn.nic.in/ (Governmental)

Kovilambakkam is a suburb of Chennai, India. The village is located within Chengalpattu district in the state of Tamil Nadu. It is administered by Kovilambakkam Village Panchayat, which is under control of St. Thomas Mount Panchayat Union , Chengalpattu district. The area and population of Kovilambakkam is so huge that it consists of two revenue villages spanning two different districts in Tamil Nadu:

Kovilambakkam revenue village which comes under Tambaram taluk in Chengalpattu district
Madipakkam-B revenue village which comes under Sholinganallur taluk in Chennai district. Madipakkam-B is commonly referred by the villagers by its 800-year-old name Sunnambu Kolathur.

Demographics

As of 2011^[update] India census,^[1] Kovilambakkam had a population of 27,374. Males constitute 13,935 of the population and females 13,439. There were 7,010 households. Kovilambakkam has an average literacy rate of 72.55%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 55.7%, and female literacy is 44.3%. In Kovilambakkam, 14% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Location

Schools and colleges

Govt. Higher Secondary School
A. V. G. Vidyalaya Matriculation School
Nethaji Vidhyalayam School
Golden School
Pole Star Matriculation School
Himayam Matriculation School
Panchayat Union Primary School
Srujana International school (formerly Srujana Montessori School)

References

^ "Census of India 2011: Data from the 2011 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 16 June 2004. Retrieved 1 November 2008. ^{[verification needed]}

External links

[1] "Census of India 2011: Data from the 2011 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 16 June 2004. Retrieved 1 November 2008. ^{[verification needed]}

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