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Kalapatti is a neighborhood of Coimbatore city in Tamil Nadu, India. It is located 17 km North-East direction, within the city limits. Now Kalapatti is merged with Corporation of Coimbatore. Because of an increase of
information technology Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields within information and communications technology (ICT), that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, data processing, data and information processing, and storage. Inf ...
(IT) companies surrounding in and around Kalapatti like
Peelamedu Peelamedu is a major commercial centre and residential locality in the Eastern part of the city of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India. It is governed by Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation since 1981. The growth of Peelamedu during the last de ...
, Hope College,
Saravanampatti Saravanampatti is a neighborhood of the Coimbatore city. It lies on the north-eastern part of the city. Saravanampatti is one of the fast-growing neighbourhoods of Coimbatore, because of the proliferation of IT companies in areas such as Sara ...
there is a fast rapid improvement in this place. The
Coimbatore International Airport Coimbatore International Airport is an international airport and the primary airport serving the Coimbatore Metropolitan Area in Tamil Nadu, India. It is located in the neighborhood of Peelamedu, about from the center of the city. It is the ...
is just about 7 km from Kalapatti.


Demographics

As of the 2001 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 ...
, Kalapatti had a population of 22,089. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Kalapatti has an average literacy rate of 72%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 78%, and female literacy is 65%. In Kalapatti, 9% of the population is under 6 years of age.


Agriculture

Kalapatti had agriculture as its key business until the late 1980s. The cotton industry was also famous. The key crop was corn and vegetables like tomato, brinjal and okra. Kalapatti was the head place for the surrounding suburbs of Valiyampalayam, Vilankurichi, Veeriyampalayam, Kaikolapalayam and Mylampatti.


Commerce

The start of Sharp industries in 1976 turned the key for its developments. Later a lot of machining industries (
lathe A lathe () is a machine tool that rotates a workpiece about an axis of rotation to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, deformation, facing, threading and turning, with tools that are applied to the w ...
s) and motor industries grew up. Today some of the world class motor pumpset brands Sharp, Ventura, Fisher and Point originate from Kalapatti. Pioneers in electronics Indus Electronics India (P) Ltd is also from Kalappati. The Solar Water factory of Hykon Group companies, Hykon India Limited is located at Kalapatti. Kalapatti has the geographical advantage of in midway between two National highways,
Avinashi road Avinashi Road, is an arterial road in Coimbatore, India. Running from west to east, the road starts at Avinashi Road flyover, Uppilipalayam flyover and ends at Neelambur by-pass junction where it joins NH 544, Beyond Neelambur Junction, the roa ...
NH 544 National Highway 544, commonly referred to as NH 544, is a National Highway in South India connecting Salem in Tamil Nadu to Kochi in Kerala. It is a spur of National Highway 44 and forms part of the North–South corridor of the National ...
(previously NH 47) and
Sathy road Sathy Road, (NH 209) is a congested arterial road in city of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. It is a part of National Highway 209 ational Highway 948between Coimbatore and Bengaluru. This road runs for about 7 kilometers starting exactly from ...
NH 948 (previously NH 209). The southern part of the suburb, which is closer to NH-47, had better development when compared to the other parts of the suburbs. The southern part of the suburb known as Nehru nagar is well known for the rapid growth in recent years (1998–2009).


IT Parks

* Global Tech Park * SVB Tech Park


References

{{Coimbatore Neighbourhoods in Coimbatore