Melamarudappapuram

Alangulam block · Tenkasi district, Tamil Nadu · PIN 627860 · village code 642727

Population 2011

3,289

Census of India

Population 2020

3,880

Mission Antyodaya survey

Change

+18.0%

591 people · 1.9% a year

Households

1,310

+36.7% vs 958 in 2011

Census 2011

Total population

3,289

Male / female

1,566 / 1,723

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

1,100

Children aged 0–6

337

Literacy rate

66.6%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

552 / 0

Working population

1,856

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

77.8%

Households

958

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

Yes

Primary health centre

CHC

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

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Yes

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

786

Non-farm households

524

Share of households farming, 2020

60%

Net sown area

60 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

5 / 60 / 20

Main irrigation source

Other

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for M.M.Puram panchayat, Alankulam 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

₹24.35 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹7.76 lakh

Received directly

—

Spent

₹12.02 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹20.09 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹11.28 lakh · received ₹3.11 lakh · spent ₹5.49 lakh · left ₹8.90 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹13.07 lakh · received ₹4.66 lakh · spent ₹6.53 lakh · left ₹11.20 lakh

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

Location

8.8108, 77.5092 — view on OpenStreetMap

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