Sayamalai Part 1
Kuruvikulam block · Tenkasi
district, Tamil Nadu · PIN 627953
· village code 642701
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 5,504 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 55,751 — 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
5,504
Male / female
2,706 / 2,798
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,034
Children aged 0–6
563
Literacy rate
61.0%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
1,028 / 0
Working population
2,995
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
85.0%
Households
1,459
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
Yes
Piped tap water
<50% habitation covered
All-weather road nearest 10 km away
No
Public transport nearest 10 km away
No
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank
Yes
Primary health centre
CHC
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
No
Common service centre
No CSC
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
78
Teachers
6
Students per teacher
13
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
Yes
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
No
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
1,973
Non-farm households
15
Share of households farming, 2020
99%
Net sown area
646 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
646 / 646 / 646
Main irrigation source
Canals
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Sayamalai panchayat, Kuruvikulam 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
₹77.37 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹17.16 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹26.25 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹68.28 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹49.65 lakh · received ₹6.86 lakh · spent ₹13.26 lakh · left ₹43.26 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹27.72 lakh · received ₹10.30 lakh · spent ₹12.99 lakh · left ₹25.02 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
9.0991, 77.6620 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Tenkasi district ·
School
staffing across Tenkasi ·
…and across Tamil Nadu