Vedaranyam
Vedaranyam is a town in Nagapattinam district of Tamilnadu and serves as Nagar Parishad. It is also a Block, Taluk and Panchayat Samiti of Nagapattinam district.
As on April 2024, the current population of Vedaranyam is 36.6 thousands out of which 17.7 thousands are males and rest 18.9 thousands are females. The sex ratio of this town is 1068 females per 1000 males. There are around 3.3 thousands teenagers in Vedaranyam. It has literacy rate of 78% which means around 28.5 thousands persons can read and write. Total 5.5 thousands people belonging to scheduled caste and 74 scheduled tribe people live in the town. There are around 9.3 thousands households in Vedaranyam, which means every family has 4 members on average. The town has working population of 13.6 thousands.
Schools
Vedaranyam has many good schools for education and follwing are popular schools among students.
- St Antony's Matriculation Hr Secondary School Vedaranyam
- Quaide Millath Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Thopputhurai
- Rvs Bharath Matriculation Higher Secondary School Ayakaranpulam
- Ghss Thopputhurai -Model
- Govt Girls Hr Secondary School, Ayakkaranpulam -3
Vedaranyam Panchayat Samiti
Kamala Anbazhagan is the President (Block Pramukh) of Panchayat Samiti Vedaranyam, who can be contacted at email address bdovdm.tnngp@gmail.com and mobile number 94424xxx99. The Block landline number is 04369-25**51. The Block Development Officer (BDO) is B Raju, who can be reached at email address sutharaju2015@gmail.com and mobile number 74026xxx49. The Block address is Vedaranyam, Pincode - 614810. You can reach there by taking a bus till Vedaranyam bus stop which is less than a km away. The Block has both library facility and internet facility.There are five computers, one printer and one scanner available for various works.It also has a CSC center. Vedaranyam Panchayat Samiti consists of total 36 Gram Panchayat.
- Adhanur
- Annapettai
- Ayakkaranpulam 1
- Ayakkaranpulam 2
- Ayakkaranpulam 3
- Ayakkaranpulam 4
- Chettipulam
- Kadinelvayal
- Kariyapattinam
- Karuppampulam
- Katharipulam
- Kodiyakkarai
- Kodiyakkadu
- Kuravapulam
- Maruthur north
- Maruthur south
- Moolakkarai
- Nagakudaiyan
- Neivilakku
- Panchanathikulam east
- Panchanathikulam middle
- Panchanathikulam west
- Pannal
- Periyakuthagai
- Piranthiyankarai
- Pushpavanam
- Sembodai
- Senbagarayanallur
- Thagattur
- Thanikkottagam
- Thennadar
- Thethagudi north
- Thethagudi south
- Vadamazhai Manakkadu
- Voimedu
- Vanduvancheri
Other villages in Vedaranyam Taluk
Vedaranyam Taluk has total 14 villages which are currently not mapped to any Gram Panchayat.