Periyakulam
Periyakulam is a town in Theni district of Tamilnadu and serves as Nagar Parishad. It is also a Block, Taluk and Panchayat Samiti of Theni district.
As on April 2024, the current population of Periyakulam is 45.9 thousands out of which 22.8 thousands are males and rest 23.1 thousands are females. The sex ratio of this town is 1013 females per 1000 males. There are around 4.1 thousands teenagers in Periyakulam. It has literacy rate of 80% which means around 36.7 thousands persons can read and write. Total 6.9 thousands people belonging to scheduled caste and 6 scheduled tribe people live in the town. There are around 12.2 thousands households in Periyakulam, which means every family has 4 members on average. The town has working population of 15.9 thousands.
These 2 villages comes under Periyakulam Nagar Parishad.
Schools
Periyakulam has many good schools for education and follwing are popular schools among students.
- Govt Girls Higher Secondary School, Periyakulam
- Govt Higher Secondary School, Silvarpatti - Model
- Shri Renuga Vidyalaya Matriculation Hr Secondary School, Theni
- 7thday Adv Matric Hr Secondary T.Kallipatti
- V.M. Govt Higher Secondary School, Periyakulam
Periyakulam Panchayat Samiti
Thangavel is the President (Block Pramukh) of Panchayat Samiti Periyakulam, who can be contacted at email address bdopkm@gmail.com and mobile number 99526xxx90. The Block Development Officer (BDO) is Sethukumar, who can be reached at email address kvvtperiyakulam@gmail.com and mobile number 86101xxx40. The Block address is Vaigai Dam Road, Vadugapatty, Periyakulam, Pincode - 625603. You can reach there by taking a bus till Vadugapatty bus stop which is less than a km away. The Block has both library facility and internet facility.There are twelve computers, five printers and one scanner available for various works.It also has a CSC center. Periyakulam Panchayat Samiti consists of total 17 Gram Panchayat.
- A Vadipatti
- Alagarnaickanpatti
- Bomminaickanpatti
- D.Vadipatti
- Endapuli
- Erumalainaickanpatti
- G.Kallupatti
- Gullapuram
- Jallipatti
- Jeyamangalam
- Keelavadakarai
- Lakshmipuram
- Melmangalam
- Muthalakkampatti
- Saruthupatti
- Silvarpatti
- Vadapudupatti
Other villages in Periyakulam Taluk
Periyakulam Taluk has total 7 villages which are currently not mapped to any Gram Panchayat.