Karur district villages list and taluks

Karur district consists of 7 taluks and 203 villages.

• The basic unit for rural areas is the revenue village, which has definite surveyed boundaries.
• The revenue village may comprise of one or more hamlets but the entire village is treated as one unit for presentation of data.
• In un surveyed areas, like villages within forest areas, each habitation area with locally recognized boundaries is treated as one village.

What is the Karur district villages list?

Karur district villages list consist of 203 villages, which is further classified based on 7 taluks in Karur district. Aravakurichi taluk consists of 58 villages and is considered the biggest taluk of Karur. Kadavur taluk has only 22 villages and is the smallest taluk in Karur.

Karur district villages list with taluk names are as follows

Aravakurichi taluk villages

There are a total of 58 villages under Aravakurichi taluk. Aravakurichi is the largest taluk in Karur district.

The list of villages in Aravakurichi are given below

Kadavur taluk villages

There are 22 villages under Kadavur taluk. Kadavur is the smallest taluk in Karur district of Tamil Nadu.

The list of villages in Kadavur taluk are given in below table

Karur taluk villages list

Karur taluk consists of 46 villages. Karur taluk is the second largest taluk in Karur in Tamil Nadu.

The list of villages in Karur taluk are given below

Krishnarayapuram taluk villages

There are a total of 24 villages in Krishnarayapuram taluk. Krishnarayapuram is the second smallest taluk in Karur district.

The villages in Krishnarayapuram taluk are listed below

Kulithalai taluk villages

There are a total of 39 villages under Kulithalai taluk. Kulithalai is medium size taluk in Karur district.

Kulithalai is border of Karur and Trichy district

The list of villages in Kulithalai taluk are given below

Educational Amenities in villages

The type of different educational facilities available in the karur district villages is given in numbers. Both Government and private educational facilities / institutions are considered for this-purpose. For example: Arumugam Academy school Aravakurichi Karur

If there are composite schools like Middle schools with Primary classes, or Secondary schools with middle classes, these are included in the number of Primary and Middle schools respectively.

For example, if in a village there are two Primary schools and one Middle school with primary classes, the number of Primary schools in the village are given as three and that of Middle school as one even though there may be only three educational institutions.

So also in case of Secondary schools. For better understanding, the distinctiveness of different types of schools is depicted hereunder:

karur Village primary schools

Lot of preprimary schools, private schools in particular, have come up in villages and towns. A Primary Health care Centre is the first contact point between a village community and the Government medical officer.

Village Mobile Health Clinic - These are Mobile vans well equipped with a range of health services to villages located far away from the CHCs, PHCs or any public health sources.

Tap Water in villages

This source of drinking water refers to a source of drinking water which is provided to the villagers through pipes within their premises or to the villagers through common taps (public taps/ community water points) by the Government departments, local bodies, panchayats, public or private estate agencies, etc. after treatment.

Karur district village Tap Water-un-treated

If the villagers are drawing drinking water through pipes either directly from a well or bore well or after pumping the well or tube well water, or the water is supplied through pipes to the households of the village or through public taps without treatment.

Such a source is treated as ‘Tap water from un-treated source’.

Public Call Office in villages

If the village is having the Public Call Office (PCO) either run by the Post Office or by individuals or by a private shop, then the village is considered to be having telephone facility

Internet Cafes/Common Service Centres in karur district villages

If the village is having the facility of Cyber Cafes or shops owned by private individuals providing the facility of surfing of the internet, then the village is considered to be having access to internet/cyber cafe facility

Village Road

The approach to village refers to the state of road etc., leading to the village. This is to see whether the village is approachable both in fair and foul weather, and whether it is inaccessible only for some time in the year

Most of the interior/forest villages are connected by foot paths.

Village electricity

If the village is having electricity for domestic purposes and the residents are using the same for domestic use, then it is considered that domestic power supply is available.

Village Land Use Pattern:

The land use area of the villages is given in hectares. The land use pattern in the Village Directory conforms to the pattern of classification of land use as recommended by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India. The Ministry has recommended the maintenance of records of land use pattern under the 9 categories as indicated in the Village Directory.

Karur district village directory

KVB Karur vysya bank was established in villages of Karur district.

The village directory is a compilation of the information gathered through Census 2011 and afterwards. The different types of relevant census data pertaining to the village directory have been presented in different forms.

Village is a statutory recognized unit having a definite boundary and separate land records. The data in village directory has been presented by Community Development Blocks for all Revenue Villages.

Data on villages in the Reserve Forests has also been presented. The karur district village directory data presented include the list of revenue villages with their location codes;

Area, population and number of households in each village, the amenities available to the villages such as educational, medical, drinking water, post.

Telegraph, commercial and co-operative banks, agricultural, non-agricultural and other credit societies, recreational and cultural facilities, communication, approach to village, nearest towns with distance, power supply, availability of newspaper and magazines, most important commodity manufactured and land use of each karur district village have been presented in the prescribed format.

Appendices are also presented as summary by CD Block-wise for the amenities gathered from different sources. For the villages identified as Census Towns in 2011 census, the amenities data are presented in the Town Directory.

The ‘uninhabited’ villages (villages with no population) have been indicated along with Serial number, Name of village and their location codes and area. The land use data for such villages are also presented. Other data has not been presented as these were not available for the uninhabited villages.