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PUDUKKOTTAI DISTRICT

Pudukkottai district covers an area of 4663 Sq. Km. which has a coast line of 39 Kms. The district is located between 78.25' and 79.15' of the East of Longitude and between 9.50' and 10.40' of the North of Latitude.

As the total population of the Pudukkottai district is 14,59,601. As the land is not fertile, so agriculture is not very common at Pudukkottai. People are engaged in the mining of granite and laterite. Another source of income is the handloom industry.

Rainfall

In this district the average rain fall is calculated as 827mm for one year.

Tourist come to visit the following places of Pudukkottai district:

Pudukkottai- archeologists paradise

·         Sittannavasal

·         Kudumbalur

·         Thirumayam

·         Kudumiyanmalai Viralimalai

·         Avur

·         Thirukokarnam Pallivasal Avudaiyarkoil

·         Sri Gokarneswara Temple, Thirugokarnam

Trichy, Sivagangai and Tanjore District, are surrounded with Bay of Bengal as their boundaries.

Industries

There are six large scale industries in the district as given below: 

(1) M/s. Cauvery Spinning and Weaving Mills Ltd., Cauvery Nagar. 

(2) M/s. Pudukkottai Textile Mills Ltd., Pudukkottai. (3) M/s. Sri Nadiambal Textile Mills Ltd., Arantangi. (4) M/s. Ramachandran Chemicals (P) Ltd., Kiranur. (5) M/s. Sundaram Industries Ltd., Pudukkottai. 

(6) The State There are 392 small scale units. The main industries in which they are engaged are wood based industries, tinkering, fabrication of metal products, printing and binding, manufacture of agricultural implements, manufacture of agricultural implements, manufacture of cement tiles and other cement products, automobile servicing and repairing and safety matches.

A few oil and rice mills are concentrated in Alangudi taluk, Thiruvarangulam a Pudukkottai blocks.