Kaveripattinam is a panchayat town in Krishnagiri district

Krishnagiri District

Krishnagiri is a district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. The municipal town of Krishnagiri is the district headquarters. In Tamil Nadu, E-Governance was first introduced at Krishnagiri district under the National e-Governance Project in Revenue, Social Welfare departments on a pilot basis...

 in the India

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 of Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

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. It is approximately 100 km from Bangalore

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. The town is very green because of the KRP Dam nearby. Kaveripattinam is famous for its cultivation of mango

Mango

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es. There are lot of mango pulp industries, milk processing units and small scale industries.

Geography

Kaverippattanam is located at 12.42°N 78.23°E. It has an average elevation of 454 m (1,489.5 ft).

Demographics

India census

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, Kaveripattinam had a population of 14,417. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Kaveripattinam 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 Kaveripattinam, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Now Kaveripattinam comes under Krishnagiri District, a newly carved out district from Dharmapuri.

A beautiful river called as 'South Pennar' passes through Kaveripattinam 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.
Kaveripattinam owns the districts biggest Boys Higher Secondary School.
There are about 15 match industries in this town.

Now in this small town there are about 20 jewellery shops. most of them are new jewellery shops.

Famous Large and Small Scale Industries

Mango Pulp Industries (around 20 industries and upcoming are more).
Match Box Industries (Major exports), runs all over India.

Politics

Kaveripattinam assembly constituency is part of Krishnagiri (Lok Sabha constituency)

Krishnagiri (Lok Sabha constituency)

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The District 60% of revenue is from this town alone.