Annamalai Nagar is a special grade

Panchayat town A nagar panchayat () or town panchayat or Notified Area Council (NAC) in India is a settlement in transition from rural to urban and therefore a form of an urban political unit comparable to a municipality. An urban centre with more than 12,00 ...

Cuddalore district Cuddalore District is one of the 38 List of districts of Tamil Nadu, districts in the States and union territories of India, state of Tamil Nadu in India. History Since ancient times, the old town has been a seaport. Through the centuries, Cu ...

in the state of

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is the southernmost States and union territories of India, state of India. The List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of Indi ...

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. The town is named after Annamalai Chettiar, an Indian businessperson, educationist and philanthropist. The

Annamalai University The Annamalai University (AU) is a public state university in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India. The sprawling campus offers courses of higher education in arts, science, engineering, management, humanities, agriculture, and physical education. ...

, founded by him, is located in Annamalai Nagar.

Chidambaram Chidambaram is a major town and municipality in Cuddalore district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, on the banks of the Vellar River where it meets the Bay of Bengal. It is the headquarters of the Chidambaram taluk. The town is believed to b ...

is the nearest train station and bus terminus.

Demographics

's India

census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

, Annamalai Nagar had a population of 16289 of which 8646 are males and 7643 are females. The literacy rate of Annamalai Nagar city is 95.22%, higher than the state average of 80.09%, In Annamalai Nagar, Male literacy is around 97.53% while the female literacy rate is 92.59%. Panchayat has total administration of over 2,445 houses to which it supplies basic amenities like water and sewerage.

References

Cities and towns in Cuddalore district {{Cuddalore-geo-stub