Valavandapuram

Sankarankovil block · Tenkasi district, Tamil Nadu · PIN 627753 · village code 642640

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 1,045 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 6,445 — more than 2.5 times higher, which no village grows in nine years. One of the two is wrong and we cannot tell which.

Census 2011

Total population

1,045

Male / female

518 / 527

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

1,017

Children aged 0–6

122

Literacy rate

78.3%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

92 / 4

Working population

523

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

34.2%

Households

317

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school

Yes

High school nearest 2 km away

Piped tap water

100% habitations covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Bus

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank nearest 2 km away

Primary health centre

PHC

Anganwadi

Yes

Internet

Yes

Common service centre

Separately located

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

330

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Girls

Computer lab

Yes

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

420

Non-farm households

530

Share of households farming, 2020

44%

Net sown area

502 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

502 / 502 / 400

Main irrigation source

Ground water (tube well/well/pump)

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Perumalpatty panchayat, Sankarankoil 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

₹45.98 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹9.01 lakh

Received directly

—

Spent

₹36.15 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹18.84 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹16.76 lakh · received ₹3.60 lakh · spent ₹18.39 lakh · left ₹1.98 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹29.21 lakh · received ₹5.41 lakh · spent ₹17.76 lakh · left ₹16.86 lakh

Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied together make up the totals above.

Location

9.3333, 77.5492 — view on OpenStreetMap

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How this village compares

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