Kotagiri, Tamilnadu
Kotagiri is a town in The Nilgiris district of Tamilnadu and serves as Nagar Panchayat. It is also a Block, Taluk and Panchayat Samiti of The Nilgiris district.
As on April 2024, the current population of Kotagiri is 30.2 thousands out of which 14.5 thousands are males and rest 15.6 thousands are females. The sex ratio of this town is 1073 females per 1000 males. There are around 2.3 thousands teenagers in Kotagiri. It has literacy rate of 80% which means around 24 thousands persons can read and write. Total 8.5 thousands people belonging to scheduled caste and 91 scheduled tribe people live in the town. There are around 8.4 thousands households in Kotagiri, which means every family has 4 members on average. The town has working population of 14.1 thousands.
These 1 villages comes under Kotagiri Nagar Panchayat.
Schools
Kotagiri has many good schools for education and follwing are popular schools among students.
- Viswashanthi Vidyalaya Matric School, Kotagiri
- St.Mary's Home Mat.School, Kotagiri
- St.Marys Girls Higher Secondary School Kotagiri
- St.Judes Public School, Kotagiri
- Hillfort Matriculation & Higher Secondary School, Keircombai
Kotagiri Panchayat Samiti
E.Ramkumar is the President (Block Pramukh) of Panchayat Samiti Kotagiri, who can be contacted at email address nlgkgri.tnbdo@nic.in and mobile number 90925xxx73. The Block landline number is 04266-27**04. The Block Development Officer (BDO) is N.Jayabalan, who can be reached at email address nlgkgri@gmail.com and mobile number 94420xxx63. The Block address is Commissioner, Panchayat Union, Near Gadhiground, Kotagiri, Pincode - 643217. You can reach there by taking a bus till Kotagiri bus stop which is less than a km away. The Block has internet facility.Kotagiri Panchayat Samiti consists of total 11 Gram Panchayat.
- Aracode
- Denad
- Jackanarai
- Kadinamala
- Kengarai
- Kodanad
- Konavakkarai
- Kunjappanai
- Naduhatty
- Nedugula
- Thengumarahada
Other villages in Kotagiri Taluk
Kotagiri Taluk has total 8 villages which are currently not mapped to any Gram Panchayat.