Chinnasalem, Tamilnadu
Chinnasalem is a town in Kallakurichi district of Tamilnadu and serves as Nagar Panchayat. It is also a Block, Taluk and Panchayat Samiti of Kallakurichi district.
As on April 2024, the current population of Chinnasalem is 26.8 thousands out of which 13.1 thousands are males and rest 13.7 thousands are females. The sex ratio of this town is 1043 females per 1000 males. There are around 2.5 thousands teenagers in Chinnasalem. It has literacy rate of 73% which means around 19.6 thousands persons can read and write. Total 3.9 thousands people belonging to scheduled caste and 195 scheduled tribe people live in the town. There are around 6.6 thousands households in Chinnasalem, which means every family has 4 members on average. The town has working population of 10.9 thousands.
These 2 villages comes under Chinnasalem Nagar Panchayat.
Schools
Chinnasalem has many good schools for education and follwing are popular schools among students.
- Sakthi Matric Higher Secondary School Kaniyamoor
- Bharathi Balamandir Matric Higher Secondary School, Chinnasalem
- Bharathi Matric Higher Secondary School Vadakkanandal
- Government Higher Secondary School Nainarpalayam
- Aided Higher Secondary School Chinnasalem
Chinnasalem Panchayat Samiti
Rajendiran P is the President (Block Pramukh) of Panchayat Samiti Chinnasalem, who can be contacted at email address bdochsm018@gmail.com and mobile number 80127xxx55. The Block Development Officer (BDO) is Geetha K, who can be reached at email address bdocsm.tnvpm@nic.in and mobile number 89406xxx93. The Block address is Chinnasalem, Pincode - 606201. You can reach there by taking a bus till Chinnasalem bus stop which is around 2 km away. The Block has internet facility.Chinnasalem Panchayat Samiti consists of total 50 Gram Panchayat.
- Alamabalam .V
- Ammaiyagaram
- Ammakalathur
- Anumanandal
- Bangaram
- Elavadi
- Eliyathur
- Eriyur
- Ervaipattinam
- Esanthai
- Kadathur
- Kalasamudram
- Kallanatham
- Kaniyamoor
- Karanur
- Karunkuzhi
- Karundhalakurichi
- Koogaiyur
- Kudiraichandal
- Kural
- Mamandur .V
- Mattigaikurichi
- Melnariyappanur
- Moongilpadi
- Nagakuppam
- Nainarpalayam
- Nallathur
- Namachivayapuram
- Paithanthurai
- Pakkambadi
- Pandiyankuppam
- Pethanur
- Pethasamudram
- Poondi
- Rayappanur
- Rayarpalayam
- Sadayampattu
- Sembakurichi
- Thagamtheerthapuram
- Thagarai
- Thenchettiyandal
- Thengiyanatham
- Thensiruvalur
- Thimmapuram
- Thottapadi
- Thottiam
- Ulagankathan
- Ulagiyanallur
- V.P.Agaram
- Vasudevanur .A
Other villages in Chinnasalem Taluk
Chinnasalem Taluk has total 5 villages which are currently not mapped to any Gram Panchayat.