Vellalankulam
Melaneelithanallur block · Tenkasi
district, Tamil Nadu · PIN 627857
· village code 642712
Population 2011
3,561
Census of India
Population 2020
4,400
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+23.6%
839 people · 2.4% a year
Households
1,375
+46.9% vs 936 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
3,561
Male / female
1,789 / 1,772
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
990
Children aged 0–6
400
Literacy rate
70.1%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
533 / 1
Working population
2,082
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
48.9%
Households
936
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
Yes
Piped tap water
50 to 100% habitations covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Bus
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 10 km away
No
Primary health centre
PHC
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
179
Teachers
6
Students per teacher
30
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
1,020
Non-farm households
20
Share of households farming, 2020
98%
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Vellalankulam panchayat, Melaneelithanallur 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
₹21.82 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹10.27 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹9.46 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹22.63 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹8.66 lakh · received ₹4.11 lakh · spent ₹3.82 lakh · left ₹8.94 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹13.16 lakh · received ₹6.16 lakh · spent ₹5.63 lakh · left ₹13.69 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
9.0450, 77.4496 —
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