Gudalur, The Nilgiris
Gudalur is a town in The Nilgiris district of Tamilnadu and serves as Nagar Parishad. It is also a Block, Taluk and Panchayat Samiti of The Nilgiris district.
As on December 2024, the current population of Gudalur is 41.6 thousands out of which 21.1 thousands are males and rest 20.5 thousands are females. The sex ratio of this town is 972 females per 1000 males. There are around 3.5 thousands teenagers in Gudalur. It has literacy rate of 78% which means around 32.3 thousands persons can read and write. Total 3.7 thousands people belonging to scheduled caste and 17 scheduled tribe people live in the town. There are around 11.7 thousands households in Gudalur, which means every family has 4 members on average. The town has working population of 18.6 thousands.
These 5 villages comes under Gudalur Nagar Parishad.
Schools
Gudalur has many good schools for education and follwing are popular schools among students.
- Ideal Matric Higher Secondary School, T.K.Pet
- Morning Star Higher Secondary School Gudalur
- Holy Cross Matric Higher Secondary School Devarsholai
- Government Hr. Secondary School, Gudalur
- St Thomas English High School Gudalur
Gudalur Panchayat Samiti
Keerthana is the President (Block Pramukh) of Panchayat Samiti Gudalur, who can be contacted at email address keerthanagobinath64@gmail.com and mobile number 94429xxx06. The Block landline number is 04262-26**60. The Block Development Officer (BDO) is Keerthana, who can be reached at email address bdogdr2018@gmail.com and mobile number 74026xxx16. The Block address is Block Development Office, Gudalur, Old Court Road, Pincode - 643212. You can reach there by taking a bus till Gudalur Bus Stand which is less than a km away. The Block has internet facility.There are eleven computers, seven printers and seven scanners available for various works.Gudalur Panchayat Samiti consists of total 5 Gram Panchayat.
Other villages in Gudalur Taluk
Gudalur Taluk has total 18 villages which are currently not mapped to any Gram Panchayat.