Tiruppattur

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state_name = Tamil Nadu
district = Vellore
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Tirupattur is a town located in Vellore District, Tamil Nadu, India. The town has mainly small scale industries and mills. Tirupattur can be best described as a Satellite town, in which people reside and go to work in nearby industrial towns such as Vaniyambadi and Ambur in the north. It is improper to describe it as satellite town and it is a commercial center from time immemorial whereas Vaniyambadi and Ambur which were once smaller towns than the former, flourished and populated in the recent past by the environment-polluting tanneries. It was a revenue sub-division during British raj and remains so. It has Old Shiva,Vishnu temples and Tanks built during Hoysala Dyanasty. It is well connected by road and rail to other important cities of Tamil Nadu such as Chennai and Salem, and Vellore and Bangalore in Karnataka.This town is also famous in Islamic religious circles as many great saints "awliyas" had made it their home town some of them are burried at various places in the town to name a few: Hazrath Syed Sha Mohammed (alais)Syed Khawja Meeran Hussaini Jaffari, Hazrath Syed ShaAmeenuddin Hussaini Chisty ur Kahdri(who is better known as Munshi Hazrath)he was the last among a series of saints who have lived and have been burried at Tirupattur. Munshi Hazrath's son Janab Syed Sha Nayeem Hussaini Chisty ul Khadri (better known in and around the town as Nayeem Hazrath) still resides in the town and is carrying forward the traditon of his froefathers , he is also a great religious scholar and a very famous exhorcist, many people who are either possessed or under the influence of evil sprits visit him to get themselves freed of such sprits. It is a part of Kongu Nadu region of Tamilnadu ruled by the ancient Western Ganga Dynasty.See also Gounder (caste) for history. Please verify once again ,the Gounders Present in this Area , they are MBC, But Gounders from kongunadu region, they are BC, So please verify it.

The name Tirupattur in English means a group of ten villages/small towns. There exist a village called Aathiyur( Aathi= Begin) in the southern fringes of the Town and Kodiyur(Kodi = End) at the northern fringes of the Town.It is surrounded by several of these villages, making Tirupattur a Taluk. Tirupattur's population and land area are good enough to have political representations in the state legislature of Tamil Nadu (Member of the Legislative Assembly), as well as in the central/federal legislature of India (Member of Parliament).

Demographics

As of 2001 India census [GR|India] , Tirupathur had a population of 60,803. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Tirupathur has an average literacy rate of 73%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 79%, and female literacy is 67%. In Tirupathur, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Geography

Tiruppattur is located at coor d|12.50|N|78.57|E| [ [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IN/25/Tiruppatur.html Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Tiruppattur] ] . It has an average elevation of m to ft|387|m|abbr=on.

It is also known as the "Sandalwood Town" due to the abundant availability of sandalwood trees in the surrounding hills. It is very close to the 4th hill station of Tamil Nadu, the Yelagiri Hills, which is also known as the Poor man's Ooty.

There is another small hill station to the east of Tirupattur (about 35 km) known as Jawadi Hills. In the middle of this hill lies the Kavalur Observatory, which has several optical and reflective telescopes run and governed by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics. There is also a small seasonal stream falls some 10 km east of Tirupattur, known as Jalagamparai.

Education

Schools
* Don Bosco Matriculation Hr. Sec. School
* Dominic Savio Hr. Sec. School
* Lions Matriculation Hr. Sec. School
* Al Ameen Matriculation & Higher Secondary School
* Osmania Girls High School
* Mary Immaculate Convent
* Meenakshi Government Girls Hr.Sec. School
* Rama Krishna Higher Secondary School

Arts
* Sacred Heart College: Autonomous arts and science institution, known for its well-disciplined academic and curricular standards

Engineering
* Sri Nandhanam College of Engineering & Technology

Politics

Tirupattur assembly constituency is part of Tiruppattur (Lok Sabha constituency). [cite web
url = http://archive.eci.gov.in/se2001/background/S22/TN_ACPC.pdf
title = List of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies
accessdate = 2008-10-08
work = Tamil Nadu
publisher = Election Commission of India ]

References

External links

* [http://discovertirupattur.com/ Tirupattur Official Website ]

ee also

* Tiruppattur (Lok Sabha constituency)