Oddanchatram
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Oddanchatram is a Municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 in Dindigul district
Dindigul District
Dindigul District is an administrative region in the south of Tamil Nadu, India. The district was carved out of Madurai District in the year 1985...

 in the India
India
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n state
States and territories of India
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 of Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...

. It is located in the base of the western ghats (the tail end of the Palani Hills) in South India. It lies on the highway between Madurai-Coimbatore and Dindigul-Palani. It has a population of more than 40,000, with considerable migrant population from surrounding villages. Since before independence, there has been a train service to Oddanchatram. The Madurai
Madurai
Madurai is the third largest city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It served as the capital city of the Pandyan Kingdom. It is the administrative headquarters of Madurai District and is famous for its temples built by Pandyan and...

-Coimbatore
Coimbatore
Coimbatore , also known as Kovai , is the second largest city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is a major commercial centre in Tamil Nadu and is known as the "Manchester of South India"....

 trains pass through Oddanchatram.

Demographics

According to the 2001 India census
Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

, Oddanchatram has a population of 24,135. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Oddanchatram has an average literacy rate of 69%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 76%, and female literacy is 62%. In Oddanchatram, 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Economics

Oddanchatram is popular not only in Tamilnadu but also in the nearby states of Kerala
Kerala
or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

 and Karnataka
Karnataka
Karnataka , the land of the Kannadigas, is a state in South West India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act and this day is annually celebrated as Karnataka Rajyotsava...

 for its large supply of vegetables. A large quantity of vegetables are transported every day from the town. The town is also famous for milk products such as ghee
Ghee
Ghee is a class of clarified butter that originated in South Asia and is commonly used in South Asian cuisine....

 and buttermilk
Buttermilk
Buttermilk refers to a number of dairy drinks. Originally, buttermilk was the liquid left behind after churning butter out of cream. It also refers to a range of fermented milk drinks, common in warm climates where unrefrigerated fresh milk otherwise sours quickly...

 and you can also find cattle market which will be gathered out side the town only on Fridays. The majority of the population work in agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...

. Goods transportation, by road and rail, is a growing economic sector.

Nearest Villages

There are some small villages like Devathur, Puduchatram, palakkanuthu, Naganampaaty,kalanjipatti, Athikombai, Renganathapuram,Salaipudur,Kallimandayam,Ambillikkai,P N valsu,Sriramapuram,Reddiarchattram, Kulipatty, K.Keeranur,Poruloor,Naalroad,Velayuthampalayam,C.K Valasu Etc.,viruppach,gopalapuram,chatrappatti.pudukkottai,dhasaripatti

Education

In Oddanchatram there are two government Higher Secondary single-six schools, ten Government Primary Schools, five middle schools and about ten Matriculation
Matriculation
Matriculation, in the broadest sense, means to be registered or added to a list, from the Latin matricula – little list. In Scottish heraldry, for instance, a matriculation is a registration of armorial bearings...

 schools. Regarding higher education, there are Christian Polytechnic, I.T.I. and Christian Engineering College. There is also a teacher-training institute. The most prominent schools in oddanchatram are K.R.Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Government Girls Higher Secondary School and Christian Matriculation higher secondary school. Sri Krishna Marticulation Higher Secondary School is becoming more popular among students and parents. This school already has over 1800 students, which was started in 2002. Akshiya Acadami is another matriculation school which was started in 2002 and it is also popular in this town.outer chatrappatti high sec school 500 students

The Christian Fellowship Hospital also Runs courses in GNM (General Nursing and Midwifery) and Several other paramedical fields. They also run Post Graduate degree courses for Doctors (DNB)national board of examinations in OG, Family Medicine, General Medicine, Pediatrics and recently in Rural Surgery. The Home Nurse Training program provides much needed Home Nurses every year.

There is also an Engineering college, a Polytechnique an ITI college and a techer training institute in this town.

Schools

  1. K.R. Govt. Higher Secondary School (oldest school in town, school place is donated by Mr. Kasthuri Reddiar)
  2. Govt. Girls Higher Secondary School
  3. R.C Loyola School
  4. Christian Matriculation Higher Secondary School (first English medium school in District)
  5. B.F Hindu Vidyalaya
  6. Thiruppathi arulneri Higher Secondary School -Kallimandayam
    Kallimandayam
    Kallimadayam is a Village Panchayat under Thoppampatti Union of Oddanchatram taluk, Dindigul district, Tamil Nadu. It has eighteen small Villages attached to it for Administrative Purposes.It includes#Velayuthampalayam#Arranmanaivalasu#Esakaampatti...

  7. Santhinikethan Hr Sec School -Ambilikkai
  8. Sri Krishna Matriculation Higher Secondary School
  9. Aksahaiya Academy Matriculation Higher Secondary School
  10. Manimegalai Elango High School-Devathur
  11. JRC-higher secondary school -Kothayam
    Kothayam
    Kothayam is a Village Panchayat under Thoppampatti Union of Oddanchatram Taluk, Dindigul district, Tamilnadu.It has seven small Villages attached to it for Administrative Purposes.It includes Aruvankattuvalasu,Marriamman Temple Vallakkundapuram, Veeragirikottai, Vedikaranvalasu,...

  12. S.p.M Matriculation Higher Secondary School,kalanjipatti
  13. Chinnaiah Aided Primary School-Renganathapuram
  14. Govt Higher Secondary School, Muthunaickenpatty
  15. vivekananda hr sec school'kalanjipatti
  16. govt higher sec school chatrappatti
  17. govt girls higher sec school chatrappatti
  18. govt high school manjanayakkan patti

Colleges

  1. Christian Polytechnic -oddanchatram
  2. Karthi Polytechnic -oddanchatram
  3. Christian Engg College -oddanchatram
  4. Shakthi College
  5. Rev.Jacob Memorial Christian Arts & Science College- Ambillkkai.

Healthcare

The Christian Fellowship Hospital (CFH) is run by the Christian Fellowship, a charitable society that was established by a small group in 1955. It began as a small one-room clinic in response to certain perceived needs in an impoverished area. It was started with the charitable and benevolent purpose of promoting the spiritual, moral, mental and social advancement of the community in and around Oddanchatram. It aims to serve as a Christ-Centered witness through the ministry of healing the whole person, as well as being involved in the other developmental programmes of the community.

At present the hospital has 288 beds with major speciality departments. The outpatient department has an average attendance of 1000 patients daily. Over 2500 deliveries are conducted and over 4000 operations are done annually. The busy Intensive care unit is equipped for emergency care including coronary care. There is also a Pediatrics ICU and Nursery.
Mother Saradadevi Social Service Society founded in 1988 by a group of women headed by Mrs. M.Prasanna, is a registered voluntary organization working in the field of sexual and reproductive health among vulnerable groups.

There are orphanage
Orphanage
An orphanage is a residential institution devoted to the care of orphans – children whose parents are deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to care for them...

s - namely Goodwill Children's Home, Boy's Home (CFH) at Gandhinagar, and Kakkum Karargal in Kurinji Nagar Oddanchatram.

Politics

Oddanchatram assembly constituency is part of Dindigul (Lok Sabha constituency)
Dindigul (Lok Sabha constituency)
-Before 2009:#Tirumanagalam #Usilampatti #Nilakottai #Sholavandan #Dindigul#Athoor-2009-present:#Palani#Oddachatram#Athoor...

. Oddanchatram elects one MLA to the legislative assembly of the State.

Metamorphisis of Oddanchatram

Oddanchatram is an anorthosite
Anorthosite
Anorthosite is a phaneritic, intrusive igneous rock characterized by a predominance of plagioclase feldspar , and a minimal mafic component...

area. It is emplaced into a granulite facies terrain commonly presumed to have undergone its last regional metamorphism in the late Archean about 2600 m.y. The surrounding country rock consists of basic granulites, charnockites and metasedimentary rocks including quartzites, pelites and calc-silicates. The anorthosite is clearly intrusive into the country rock and contains many large inclusions of previously deformed basic granulite and quartzite within 100 meters of its contact. Both this intrusion and the nearby Kaduvar anorthosite show evidence of having been affected by later metamorphism and deformation.

External links

  1. http://oddanchatram.in/
  2. http://facebook.com/oddanchatramtown
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