Uchipuli or Uchippuli is a locality in the Mandapam block of

Ramanathapuram district Ramanathapuram District, also known as Ramnad District, is one of the 38 administrative districts of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. The old Ramanathapuram District consists of Present day Virudhunagar and Sivagangai districts, it touches th ...

of the

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. It is a major source of water supply for the

Ramanathapuram Ramanathapuram (), also known as Ramnad, is a city Municipal Corporation in Ramanathapuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the administrative headquarters of Ramanathapuram district and the second largest town (by population) ...

town. An

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air station, INS Parundu, is located near Uchipuli.

Transport

Uchipuli is located on the National Highway 49 (NH 49)or 85 that connects

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Rameswaram Rameswaram (; also transliterated as Ramesvaram, Rameshwaram) is a municipality in the Ramanathapuram district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is on Pamban Island separated from mainland India by the Pamban channel and is about from ...

. The Uchippuli Railway Station (code UCP) is located on the Rameshwaram-

route.

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(140 km) is the nearest airport.

Naval air station

An Indian naval air station located near Uchipuli has been in operation since 1982 at the site of the abandoned Ramnad Civil Aerodrome. Initially known as ''INS Rajali II'', it was formally recommissioned as "INS Parundu" on 26 March 2009 by the Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Sureesh Mehta. INS Parundu is used primarily as a reconnaissance station to monitor the South East

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, the

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, and the

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and

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aircraft, HAL Chetak helicopters and UAV squadrons are based here. In 2007,

Tamil Nadu Police Tamil Nadu Police is the primary law enforcement agency of the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is over 150 years old and is the fifth largest state police force in India.

recovered 1950 detonators hidden in a coconut grove at Uchipuli. They were suspected to have been stashed there by the

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for use against Sri Lankan Military.LTTE air attack, IAF sets up radar near Rameswaram
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Cities and towns in Ramanathapuram district