Kovilpatti
Kovilpatti is a town in Thoothukudi district of Tamilnadu and serves as Nagar Parishad. It is also a Block, Taluk and Panchayat Samiti of Thoothukudi district.
As on November 2024, the current population of Kovilpatti is 1.02 lakhs out of which 49.3 thousands are males and rest 52.5 thousands are females. The sex ratio of this town is 1065 females per 1000 males. There are around 8.3 thousands teenagers in Kovilpatti. It has literacy rate of 81% which means around 82.7 thousands persons can read and write. Total 10.5 thousands people belonging to scheduled caste and 858 scheduled tribe people live in the town. There are around 26.9 thousands households in Kovilpatti, which means every family has 4 members on average. The town has working population of 43.9 thousands.
Schools
Kovilpatti has many good schools for education and follwing are popular schools among students.
- Edustar International School, Kovilpatti
- St.Paul's Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Kovilpatti
- G(G)higher Secondary School, Kovilpatti
- Kamaraj Matric Higher Secondary School, Kovilpatti
- Nadar Higher Secondary School, Kovilpatti
Kovilpatti Panchayat Samiti
S.Kasthuri is the President (Block Pramukh) of Panchayat Samiti Kovilpatti, who can be contacted at email address tutkpti.tnbdo@nic.in and mobile number 63691xxx08. The Block landline number is 04632-22**08. The Block Development Officer (BDO) is A.Subbulakshmi, who can be reached at email address tutkpti.tnbdo@gmail.com and mobile number 94880xxx08. The Block address is Panchayat Union Block Office, Kovilpatti, Pincode - 628501. You can reach there by taking a bus till Kovilpatti bus stop which is around 2 km away. The Block has library facility, internet facility and Wi-Fi facility.There are two computers available for various works.Kovilpatti Panchayat Samiti consists of total 38 Gram Panchayat.
- Avalnatham
- Ayyakottaiyur
- Chatrapatti
- Chidambarapuram
- Chinnamalaikundru
- Erachi
- Idaiseval
- Ilampuvanam
- Iluppaiyoorani
- Inammaniyachi
- Kadalaiyur
- Keela Eral
- Kilavipatti
- Kodukkamparai
- Kulasekarapuram
- Lingampatti
- Manjanaickenpatti
- Manthithoppu
- Meenakshipuram
- Mela Eral
- Moopanpatti
- Mudukkumeentanpatti
- Nalatinpudur
- Oothupatti
- Pandavarmangalam
- Semapudur
- T.Shunmugapuram
- Sindalakarai
- Sivanthipatti
- Suraikkaipatti
- Theethampatti
- Thittankulam
- Thonugal
- Thuraiyoor
- Urulaikkudi
- Varathampatti
- R.Venkateshvarapuram
- Villiseri
Other villages in Kovilpatti Taluk
Kovilpatti Taluk has total 6 villages which are currently not mapped to any Gram Panchayat.