Keelakottai
Ottapidaram block · Tuticorin
district, Tamil Nadu · PIN 627352
· village code 642435
Population 2011
1,807
Census of India
Population 2020
2,494
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+38.0%
687 people · 3.6% a year
Households
1,135
+120.8% vs 514 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
1,807
Male / female
901 / 906
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,006
Children aged 0–6
172
Literacy rate
72.2%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
1,399 / 0
Working population
1,093
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
84.6%
Households
514
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 2 km away
No
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water
50 to 100% habitations covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport nearest 5 km away
No
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 2 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 5 km away
No
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
No
Common service centre
Colocated with Panchayat Bhawan
The village primary school
These figures sit inside a single merged column of the Mission
Antyodaya file and are not published anywhere in readable form.
Students
45
Teachers
2
Students per teacher
23
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
No
Farming
Farm households
500
Non-farm households
150
Share of households farming, 2020
77%
Net sown area
315 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
1 / 315 / 183
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Kellakottai panchayat, Ottapidaram zila parishad.
These are the panchayat's own accounts, not this village's: where a panchayat
holds several villages, the money covers all of them, and where a village
spans several panchayats only this one's return appears.
Opening balance
₹24.38 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹10.24 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹23.95 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹10.67 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹4.45 lakh · received ₹4.10 lakh · spent ₹6.49 lakh · left ₹2.06 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹19.93 lakh · received ₹6.14 lakh · spent ₹17.46 lakh · left ₹8.61 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
8.9009, 78.0207 —
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Nearby villages
Keela Mangalam
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