Thuvakudi

Thuvakudi is located at {{Coord|10.756389|N|78.801111|E|}}.{{cite web|title=Thuvakudi|url=http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IN/25/Tiruchchirappalli.html|publisher=Falling Grain genomics Inc.|access-date=2011-05-12}} The average elevation is {{convert|88|m|ft}}.{{cite web|title=Weather data for Tiruchchirappalli, India|url=http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=44334&refer=|publisher=Canty and Associates LLC|access-date=2011-05-12}} The topology of Thuvakudi is almost flat with a few isolated hillocks rising above the surface. The city spread over an area of {{Convert|14.371|km2}} is situated between Tiruchirapalli and Thanjavur. Red soil is the most common type of soil, which is conducive for dry crops like chillies, cotton and groundnut. Thuvakudi is hot and dry for at least eight months of the year. The hottest months are from March to July during which the city experiences frequent dust storms. During this period, the days are extremely warm and dry while evenings are rendered cooler due to the cold winds that blow from the south-east. Thuvakudi experiences a moderate climate from August to October, tempered by heavy rain and thundershowers, and cool and balmy climate from November to February. Fog and dew are rare and occur only during the winter season. It receives an average annual rainfall of around {{convert|850|mm|in|abbr=on}}

{{Weather box|width=auto

|location = Thuvakudi

|metric first = Yes

|single line = Yes

|Jan high C = 30.1

|Feb high C = 32.6

|Mar high C = 35.1

|Apr high C = 36.9

|May high C = 37.4

|Jun high C = 36.7

|Jul high C = 35.7

|Aug high C = 35.4

|Sep high C = 24.5

|Oct high C = 32.2

|Nov high C = 30.1

|Dec high C = 29.2

|year high C = 33.8

|Jan low C = 20.3

|Feb low C = 20.9

|Mar low C = 23.0

|Apr low C = 25.8

|May low C = 26.4

|Jun low C = 26.5

|Jul low C = 25.9

|Aug low C = 25.5

|Sep low C = 24.7

|Oct low C = 23.9

|Nov low C = 22.7

|Dec low C = 21.2

|year low C = 23.9

|Jan precipitation mm = 14.3

|Feb precipitation mm = 5.4

|Mar precipitation mm = 9.5

|Apr precipitation mm = 50.5

|May precipitation mm = 65.2

|Jun precipitation mm = 34.9

|Jul precipitation mm = 60.6

|Aug precipitation mm = 85.5

|Sep precipitation mm = 146.6

|Oct precipitation mm = 191.5

|Nov precipitation mm = 131.8

|Dec precipitation mm = 84.4

|year precipitation mm = 880.2

|source = [http://www.imd.gov.in/section/climate/Tiruchirappalli2.htm IMD]

|date=May 2012}}

{{bar box|title=Religious census|titlebar=#ddd|left1=Religion|right1=Percent(%)|float=right|bars={{bar percent|Hindu|Orange|83.68}}{{bar percent|Muslim|Green|5.05}}{{bar percent|Christian|purple|10.8}}{{bar percent|Sikh|yellow|0.05}}{{bar percent|Buddhist|Gold|0.03}}{{bar percent|Jain|Blue|0.04}}{{bar percent|Other|grey|0.33}}{{bar percent|No religion|violet|0.03}}}}

{{Historical populations

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|state=collapsed

|2001|35428

|2004|37210

|2008|38970

|2011|38887

|footnote=Sources:

• 2001 – 2008{{cite web|title=Salient features|url=http://municipality.tn.gov.in/thuvakudi/salient_general.html|publisher=Thuvakudi municipality|year=2011|access-date=2012-12-29}}Urban Infrastructure Report 2009, p. 62
• 2011

}}

According to 2011 census, Thuvakudi had a population of 38,887 with a sex-ratio of 842 females for every 1,000 males, much above the national average of 929.{{cite web|title=Census Info 2011 Final population totals|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/censusinfodashboard/index.html|publisher=Office of The Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India|year=2013|access-date=26 January 2014}} A total of 3,261 were under the age of six, constituting 1,667 males and 1,594 females. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes accounted for 17.58% and .99% of the population respectively. The average literacy of the town was 81.56%, compared to the national average of 72.99%. The town had a total of : 9402 households. There were a total of 13,911 workers, comprising 150 cultivators, 137 main agricultural labourers, 89 in house hold industries, 11,396 other workers, 2,139 marginal workers, 21 marginal cultivators, 108 marginal agricultural labourers, 52 marginal workers in household industries and 1,958 other marginal workers.{{cite web|title=Census Info 2011 Final population totals - Thuvakudi|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/pca/SearchDetails.aspx?Id=691173|publisher=Office of The Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India|year=2013|access-date=26 January 2014}} As per the religious census of 2011, Thuvakudi (M) had 83.68% Hindus, 5.05% Muslims, 10.8% Christians, 0.05% Sikhs, 0.03% Buddhists, 0.04% Jains, 0.33% following other religions and 0.03% following no religion or did not indicate any religious preference.{{cite web|title=Population By Religious Community - Tamil Nadu|year=2011|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/C-01.html|format=XLS|publisher=Office of The Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India|access-date=13 September 2015}}

In 2009, 45% population resided in slums, which is much higher than the normative standard of 10%.Urban Infrastructure Report 2008, p. 13 The sex ratio of the town is 914 and the literacy rate is 78%.Urban Infrastructure Report 2008, p. 5 In 2001, the population density of the town was 2465 persons/km² and most of the residential area was concentrated around the Thuvakudi Malai area. The centre of the town and Thuvakudi Malai are the major residential centres. The workforce is 31% of the total population and 90% of the working population is engaged in tertiary sector activities. The town has a total area of {{convert|1437|ha|acre}}, and in 2001 65% of the land was used by industries like SIDCO, BHEL, industrial corridors and educational institutes like NIT and Government polytechnic.

Urban Infrastructure Report 2008, p. 8

Thuvakudi was constituted as a Town Panchayat and promoted to a third-grade municipality in 2004. It was promoted to a second-grade municipality in 2010. The Thuvakudi municipality has 21 wards covering an area of {{convert|14.7|sqkm|sqmi|abbr=on}} and there is an elected councillor for each of those wards.{{cite web|title=About the municipality|url=http://municipality.tn.gov.in/thuvakudi/about_municipality.html|publisher=Thuvakudi municipality|access-date=2012-12-29|year=2011}} The functions of the municipality are devolved into six departments: general administration/personnel, Engineering, Revenue, Public Health, city planning and Information Technology (IT). All these departments are under the control of a Municipal Commissioner who is the executive head.{{cite web|title=Commissionerate of Municipal Administration|url=http://www.tn.gov.in/cma/chart5.htm|publisher=Commissionerate of Municipal Administration|access-date =2012-12-29|year=2006}} The legislative powers are vested in a body of 21 members, one each from the 21 wards.{{cite web|title=Councillors of municipality|url=http://municipality.tn.gov.in/thuvakudi/who_councilors.html|publisher=Thuvakudi municipality|access-date=2012-12-29|year=2011}} The legislative body is headed by an elected Chairperson assisted by a Deputy Chairperson.{{cite journal|title=Economic and political weekly, Volume 30|pages=2396|publisher=Sameeksha Trust|year=1995}}

Thuvakudi comes under the Thiruverumbur assembly constituency and it elects a member to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly once every five years.{{cite web

| url = http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/Const_map/map.htm

| title = List of Assembly Constituencies

| year=2010

| access-date =2012-12-28

| work = Tamil Nadu

| publisher = Tamil Nadu state government}} From the 1977 elections, All India Anna Dravid Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) won the assembly seat four times (in 1980, 1984, 1991 and 2011 elections); Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam three times (DMK, 1977, 1996, 2001 and 2006 elections) and Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M) 1989).{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/electionanalysis/AE/S22/partycomp168.htm|title=Partywise Comparison Since 1977|publisher=Election Commission of India|access-date=2012-12-29|year=2011}} The current MLA of the constituency is Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi from DMK.

Law and order in the town in maintained by the Tiruchirapalli division of the Tamil Nadu Police headed by a Deputy Superintendent. There is one police stations in the town. There are special units like prohibition enforcement, district crime, social justice and human rights, district crime records and special branch that operate at the district level police division headed by a Superintendent of Police.{{cite web|title=Thuvakudi Police|url=http://municipality.tn.gov.in/Thuvakudi/ser_Police%20stations.htm|publisher=Thuvakudi municipality|access-date=2012-12-29|year=2011}}

Thuvakudi is an industrial town. The SIDCO industrial estate encompasses more than 250 industrial units which are located in and around the town. Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) has a boiler plant and seamless steel tube processing centre, both of which are located within Thuvakudi municipal limits.Urban Infrastructure Report 2008, pp. 31-32{{cite web|title=How to reach |url=http://municipality.tn.gov.in/thuvakudi/how_to_reach.html|publisher=Thuvakudi municipality|year=2011|access-date=2012-12-29}} Thuvakudi, historically had a lot of stone quarries.Urban Infrastructure Report 2008, p. 9

The Thuvakudi municipality maintains {{convert|29.56|km|mi|abbr=on}} of road. The town has {{convert|7.65|km|mi|abbr=on}} concrete road, {{convert|10.4|km|mi|abbr=on}} bituminous road, {{convert|5.95|km|mi|abbr=on}} of WBM roads and {{convert|5.56|km|mi|abbr=on}} of gravel roads. The town is located in the National Highway NH 65, at a distance of {{convert|25|km|mi}} from Tiruchirapalli and {{convert|30|km|mi|abbr=on}} from Thanjavur.{{cite web|title=About the town |url=http://municipality.tn.gov.in/thuvakudi/about_city.html|publisher=Thuvakudi municipality|year=2011|access-date=2012-12-29}} There are three major roads from Thuvakudi: Trichy-Thanjavur National Highways NH 65, Thuvakudi Malai-Ayyampatti State Highways and Thuvakudi-Kiranur state Highways. The Thuvakudi bus stand is located on NH 65 and has 12 bus shelters. Thuvakudi is served by town bus service, which provides connectivity within the town and the suburbs. The nearest railway station is Thiruverumbur. The nearest local and international airport is the Tiruchirappalli International Airport

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In 2011, there were two primary schools, two middle schools and one higher secondary school. The Government Arts College in Thuvakudi Malai, Government Polytechnic, Trec-step, State Institute of Hotel Management & Catering Technology (SIHMCT), formerly known as Food Craft Institute (FCI) and National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli (NITT) are the colleges & institutes present in the town.{{cite web|title=Educational Institutions|url=http://municipality.tn.gov.in/thuvakudi/city_education.html|publisher=Thuvakudi municipality|access-date=2012-12-29|year=2011}}

Electricity supply to Thuvakudi is regulated and distributed by the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB). The town along with its suburbs is a part of Tiruchirapalli Electricity Distribution Circle.{{cite web|title=Important Address|url=http://www.windpro.org/pdf/MISC/TNEB%20Address.pdf|format=PDF|publisher=Indian Wind Power Association|access-date=2012-12-29|year=2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016045943/http://www.windpro.org/pdf/MISC/TNEB%20Address.pdf|archive-date=2012-10-16}} Water supply is provided by the Thuvakudi Municipality from the Kollidam river through two overhead tanks. In the period 2000–2001, a total of 2.2 million litres of water was supplied every day for households in the town.{{cite web|title=Water Supply Details|url=http://municipality.tn.gov.in/thuvakudi/salient_watersupply.html|publisher=Thuvakudi Municipality |year=2011|access-date=2012-12-29}} As per the municipal data for 2011, about 8.85 metric tonnes of solid waste were collected from Thuvakudi every day by door-to-door collection and subsequently the source segregation and dumping was carried out by the sanitary department of the Thuvakudi municipality.{{cite web|title=Waste management programme|url=http://municipality.tn.gov.in/thuvakudi/salient_solidwaste.html|publisher=Thuvakudi Municipality|access-date=2012-12-29|year=2011}} There is no underground drainage system in the town and the sewerage system for disposal of sullage is through septic tanks, open drains and public conveniences.Urban Infrastructure Report 2009, p. 25 In 2011, the municipality maintained a total of 1,126 street lamps: 184 sodium lamps, four mercury vapour lamps and 990 tube lights. The municipality operates one market and a bus stand.

• {{Note|a}} The municipalities in Tamil Nadu are graded special, selection, grade I and grade II based on income and population.

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• {{cite report |url=http://municipality.tn.gov.in/thuvakudi/Thuvakudicdp.pdf|format=PDF |title=Conversion of City Corporate Plan into Business Plan |last=Urban Infrastructure report |publisher=Tamil Nadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services Limited |year=2009 |access-date=2012-12-29|ref=urban}}

• [http://municipality.tn.gov.in/thuvakudi/index.htm Thuvakudi MUNICIPALITY]
• [http://www.nitt.edu/ Official homepage]
• [http://www.nitt.edu/tour/ Virtual Campus Tour]
• [http://www.trecstep.com TREC-STEP]

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