Pannaikadu is a
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 ...
in
Dindigul district
Dindigul District is one of the 38 districts in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. Dindigul District is the largest district in Tamil Nadu by area. The district was carved out of Madurai District in 1985. It has an area of 6266.64 km2 and c ...
in the
India
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state
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of
Tamil Nadu
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History
The majority of population here are from a specific community called 24Manai Telugu chettiar. The People here speak modified Telugu, while Tamil is also a very Commonly used language. In this Village it has two divisions namely Aladipatty and Ooralpatty. There was a Government Hospital which was a midpoint between these two divisions.
Geography
The town covers an area of 32 square kilometers.the main water source is aruganal and solamalai river water
Climate
Under the
Köppen–Geiger climate classification system, Pannaikadu has a
tropical savanna climate
Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories ''Aw'' (for a dry "winter") and ''As'' (for a dry "summer"). The driest month has less than ...
(''Aw''). Annually, the town averages a temperature of 20.7 °C and precipitation of 1345 mm.
Demographics
Indian
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 ...
, there were 2,493 households in the town and a population of 8731. The average literacy rate of the town is 76% with male literacy of 82% and female literacy of 71%.
References
External links
Town profile- Pannaikadu Town Panchayat
Cities and towns in Dindigul district
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