Kaveripakkam is a

town panchayat 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 ...

Ranipet district Ranipet District is one of the 38 districts of Tamil Nadu, India, formed by trifurcating Vellore district. The Government of Tamil Nadu announced its proposal on 15 August 2019, together with Tirupattur district, and it was officially declared ...

Vellore Vellore ( ), also spelled Velur, is a sprawling city and the administrative headquarters of Vellore district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located on the banks of the Palar River and surrounded by the Javadi Hills in the northeastern ...

Region in the

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Demographics

As of the 2011 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 ...

, Kaveripakkam had a population of 14,583. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Kaveripakkam has an average literacy rate of 72%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 79%, and female literacy is 64%. In Kaveripakkam, 9% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Attractions

Kaveripakkam has a lake built by King Nandivarman III of

Pallava dynasty The Pallava dynasty existed from 275 CE to 897 CE, ruling a significant portion of the Deccan, also known as Tondaimandalam. The Pallavas played a crucial role in shaping in particular southern Indian history and heritage. The dynasty ros ...

. This place was called 'Kavithapakkam' during the reign of the

Pallavas The Pallava dynasty existed from 275 CE to 897 CE, ruling a significant portion of the Deccan, also known as Tondaimandalam. The Pallavas played a crucial role in shaping in particular southern Indian history and heritage. The dynasty ros ...

. Recent excavations have unearthed 16th century artifacts such as pottery materials and burnt clay products. These artifacts are now displayed at Government Museum in

. Kaveripakkam lake is the second largest lake in

. This lake irrigates more than 30 villages.

Location

On the northern banks of the

Palar River Palar (Tamil: ''பாலாறு'' pālāṟu �paːlaːɾu literally "milk river") is a river of southern India. It rises in the Nandi Hills in Chikkaballapura district of Karnataka state, and flows in Karnataka, in Andhra Pradesh and i ...

, Kaveripakkam is a town in

. This town, also known as Kaveripak, is 10 km east of Walajapet and 30 km from

Kanchipuram Kanchipuram (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, IAST: '; ), also known as Kanjeevaram, is a stand alone city corporation, satellite nodal city of Chennai in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu in the Tondaimandalam region, from ...

. Kaveripakkam is about 100 km west of

Chennai Chennai, also known as Madras (List of renamed places in India#Tamil Nadu, its official name until 1996), is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Tamil Nadu by population, largest city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost states and ...

, 40 km east of

and 28 km west of

. Kaveripakkam has more than 50 small villages around the town. Kaveripakkam is the entry town of

Ranipet Ranipet (lit. Queen's colony) is an industrial town and the administrative headquarters of Ranipet district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located on the Northern banks of the Palar River. It is a Tri-City with the adjacent municipali ...

Dist

Politics

This town is part of the Sholingur (state assembly constituency) and

Arakkonam (Lok Sabha constituency) Arakkonam () is a railway town in the Ranipet district, state of Tamil Nadu. Included within the Chennai Metropolitan Area since 2022, Arakkonam is a major suburb of the state capital city Chennai, with a population of 78,395 per the census ...

Economy

Plantain is the most predominant crop in Kaveripakkam followed by rice and sugarcane. Banana fruit and banana tree products are very famous all over the district and state. Till about 70/80 years back betel leaves and Agathi leaves used to be grown in abundance.

Transport

Kaveripakkam is 40 km from Vellore and 78 km west of

International Airport. The nearest rail access points are Walajah Road Junction Railway Station and Sholinghur Railway Station. *Nearest airport: Chennai *Nearest seaport: Chennai *Nearest railway station: Sholingur (Banavaram), Walaja Road *Nearest railway junction: Katpadi(Vellore), Arakonam *Buses via Chennai to Vellore, Chennai to Arcot, Chennai to Ranipet, Chennai to Thirupathur, Chennai to Ambur, Chennai to Gudiyatham as well from Tambaram and Kanchipuram will go via Kaveripakkam.

Education

Colleges

*Matheri Teachers Training Institute *Kaveripakkam College of Arts & Science *Shri Sapthagiri Institute of Technology

Schools

*Government Boys Higher Secondary School *Government Girls Higher Secondary School *Saraswathi Vidhyalaya Matric Higher Sec School, kaveripakkam *Swamy Vivekananda Vidyalaya Matric School *Bharathidhasanar Matric Higher Sec School *Vedavalli Vidhyalaya Hr.sec school, Bagaveli *SunBeam Matric Higher Sec School & SunBeam(CBSE) Sr.Sec.School, Sumaithangi *Anne Marie Matric Hr.Sec. School, Thiruparkadal *Golden Growth Vidyalaya CBSE

Notable residents

* Ariyanatha Mudaliar, the Prime Minister of Krishnadevaroya was born in Kaveripakkam. *

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, the wife of Tamil poet-philosopher

Valluvar Thiruvalluvar commonly known as Valluvar, was a Tamil poet and philosopher. He is best known as the author of the ''Tirukkuṟaḷ'', a collection of couplets on ethics, political and economic matters, and love. The text is considered an exc ...

References

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