Kodaikanal
Kodaikanal is a town in Dindigul district of Tamilnadu and serves as Nagar Parishad. It is also a Block, Taluk and Panchayat Samiti of Dindigul district.
As on December 2024, the current population of Kodaikanal is 39.1 thousands out of which 19.5 thousands are males and rest 19.6 thousands are females. The sex ratio of this town is 1004 females per 1000 males. There are around 3.9 thousands teenagers in Kodaikanal. It has literacy rate of 80% which means around 31.2 thousands persons can read and write. Total 7.8 thousands people belonging to scheduled caste and 109 scheduled tribe people live in the town. There are around 10.1 thousands households in Kodaikanal, which means every family has 4 members on average. The town has working population of 15.1 thousands.
Schools
Kodaikanal has many good schools for education and follwing are popular schools among students.
- St John's Ghss Kodaikanal
- St Xavier's Higher Secondary School, Naidupuram
- Kodai Phss, Kodaikanal
- St John's Primary School, Kodaikanal
- Rc Town Higher Secondary School, Kodaikanal
Kodaikanal Panchayat Samiti
E.Vijayachandriga is the President (Block Pramukh) of Panchayat Samiti Kodaikanal, who can be contacted at email address bdokodaikanal@gmail.com and mobile number 74026xxx24. The Block landline number is 4542-24**04. The Block Development Officer (BDO) is R.M Arumugam , who can be reached at email address bdokodai@gmail.com and mobile number 98650xxx25. The Block address is Kodaikanal Panchayat Union, Kodaikanal, Pincode - 624101. You can reach there by taking a bus till Kodaikanal bus stop which is around 3 km away. The Block has both internet facility and Wi-Fi facility.Kodaikanal Panchayat Samiti consists of total 15 Gram Panchayat.
- Adukkam
- Kamanur
- Kilakkuchettipatti
- Kookal
- Kumbaraiyur
- Mannavanur
- Pachalur
- Periyur
- Poolathur
- Poomparai
- Poondi
- Thandikudi
- Vadakavunji
- Vellakavi
- Vilpatti
Other villages in Kodaikanal Taluk
Kodaikanal Taluk has total 1 villages which are currently not mapped to any Gram Panchayat.