Arcot
Arcot is a town in Ranipet district of Tamilnadu and serves as Nagar Parishad. It is also a Block, Taluk and Panchayat Samiti of Ranipet district.
As on April 2024, the current population of Arcot is 59.8 thousands out of which 29.7 thousands are males and rest 30.1 thousands are females. The sex ratio of this town is 1014 females per 1000 males. There are around 5.8 thousands teenagers in Arcot. It has literacy rate of 79% which means around 47.4 thousands persons can read and write. Total 6.2 thousands people belonging to scheduled caste and 90 scheduled tribe people live in the town. There are around 14.5 thousands households in Arcot, which means every family has 4 members on average. The town has working population of 21.8 thousands.
These 2 villages comes under Arcot Nagar Parishad.
Schools
Arcot has many good schools for education and follwing are popular schools among students.
- Gghss, Arcot
- Islamiah B Higher Secondary School Melvisharam
- Islamiah G Higher Secondary School Melvisharam
- Rathinagiri Bageerathan Matric Higher Secondary School, Rathinagiri
- Kh Matric (G) Higher Secondary School, Melvisharam
Arcot Panchayat Samiti
P Vedhamuthu is the President (Block Pramukh) of Panchayat Samiti Arcot, who can be contacted at email address velarct.tnbdo@nic.in and mobile number 74026xxx24. The Block landline number is 4172-23**84. The Block Development Officer (BDO) is M Parasuraman, who can be reached at email address mparusuramano@gmail.com and mobile number 96291xxx65. The Block address is No.114 Block Development Office, Thivan Bazzar Street, Kalavai Road, Pincode - 632503. You can reach there by taking a bus till Arcot Bus Stand which is around 2 km away. The Block has both internet facility and Wi-Fi facility.Arcot Panchayat Samiti consists of total 39 Gram Panchayat.
- Anathangal
- Arapakkam
- Arumbakkam
- Arungundram
- Athithangal
- Ayilam
- Esaiyanur
- Karikkanthangal
- Karivedu
- Kathiyavadi
- Kilambadi
- Kilkuppam
- Kilminnal
- Kirambadi
- Koorambadi
- Kukkundi
- Ladavaram
- Mangadu
- Mecheri
- Melakuppam
- Mulluvadi
- Muppathuvetti
- Nandhiyalam
- Papperi
- Puderi
- Pudupadi
- Punnapadi
- Puttuthakku
- Sakkaramallur
- Sambasivapuram
- Sarvanthangal
- Sathur
- Sembedu
- Thazhanur
- Uppupettai
- Valavanur
- K.Velur
- Vepoor
- Tajpura
Other villages in Arcot Taluk
Arcot Taluk has total 4 villages which are currently not mapped to any Gram Panchayat.