Chengam, Tamilnadu
Chengam is a town in Tiruvannamalai district of Tamilnadu and serves as Nagar Panchayat. It is also a Block, Taluk and Panchayat Samiti of Tiruvannamalai district.
As on November 2024, the current population of Chengam is 28.9 thousands out of which 14.5 thousands are males and rest 14.4 thousands are females. The sex ratio of this town is 991 females per 1000 males. There are around 3.1 thousands teenagers in Chengam. It has literacy rate of 71% which means around 20.6 thousands persons can read and write. Total 8.4 thousands people belonging to scheduled caste and 101 scheduled tribe people live in the town. There are around 6.6 thousands households in Chengam, which means every family has 4 members on average. The town has working population of 11 thousands.
These 3 villages comes under Chengam Nagar Panchayat.
Schools
Chengam has many good schools for education and follwing are popular schools among students.
- Maharishi Higher Secondary School Chengam
- Ghss(Girls) Chengam
- Sri Vivekananda Matric Higher Secondary School-Chengam
- Sri Ramakrishna Matric Higher Secondary School Chengam
- Barath Mat Higher Secondary School Chengam
Chengam Panchayat Samiti
G.Vijayarani is the President (Block Pramukh) of Panchayat Samiti Chengam, who can be contacted at email address bdocgm.tntvm@nic.in and mobile number 94873xxx96. The Block landline number is 04188-22**22. The Block Development Officer (BDO) is P.Sathiyamoorthy, who can be reached at email address sathiyamoorthyparasuraman1971@gamil.com and mobile number 74026xxx64. The Block address is Near Aeeo Office, Thukkapettai, Chengam, Pincode - 606709. You can reach there by taking a bus till Chengam bus stop which is less than a km away. The Block has internet facility.There are five computers, two printers and one scanner available for various works.It also has a CSC center. Chengam Panchayat Samiti consists of total 44 Gram Panchayat.
- Alaputhur
- Andipatti
- Anthanur
- Anvarabath
- Arattavadi
- Ariyakunjur
- Aswanagasuranai
- Beemanandal
- Chennasamuthiram
- Chinnakolapadi
- Elangunni
- Kannkurukkai
- Kariyamangalam
- Kattamaduvu
- Kayambattu
- Kottavoor
- Kuppanatham
- Manmalai
- Melchengam
- Melpallipattu
- Melpennathur
- Melpulidiyur
- Melravanthavadi
- Melvanakkambadi
- Neepathurai
- Pachal
- Pakkiripalayam
- Paliyapattu
- Paramanandal
- Periyakolapadi
- Perumbakkam
- Pinjur
- Porasapattu
- Pudupattu
- Puliyampatti
- Quilam
- Che. Agaram
- Che. Nachipattu
- Che. Sorpanandal
- Thalaiyouthu
- Theethandapattu
- Uchimalaikuppam
- Valayambattu
- Vinnavanoor
Other villages in Chengam Taluk
Chengam Taluk has total 2 villages which are currently not mapped to any Gram Panchayat.