Tenkasi district


Tenkasi district is one of the 38 districts of Tamil Nadu, India, separated from Tirunelveli district on 22 November 2019. The Government of Tamil Nadu announced its creation on 18 July 2019. The district headquarters is at Tenkasi.

Geography

The district shares borders with Tirunelveli district in the south, Virudhunagar district in the north, Thoothukudi district in the east and Kollam and Pathanamthitta districts of Kerala in the west. The western part of the district runs along the Western Ghats, while the east is mainly flat plains.
Tenkasi was formed from 8 talukas: Sivagiri, Sankarankovil, Veerakeralamputhur, Alangulam, Tenkasi and Shenkottai, Kadayanallur, Thiruvenkatam.

Administration

Revenue Divisions and Taluks

Sankarankoil Revenue Division: Sankarankoil, Tiruvengadam, Sivagiri

Municipalities

  1. Tenkasi
  2. Shenkottai
  3. Kadayanallur
  4. Puliyankudi
  5. Surandai
  6. Sankarankovil

    Town Panchayats

  7. Alangulam
  8. Achampudur
  9. Alwarkurichi
  10. Aygudi
  11. Courtallam
  12. Ilanji
  13. Keelapavoor
  14. Melagaram
  15. Panpoli
  16. Pudur
  17. Rayagiri
  18. Sambavar Vadagarai
  19. Sivagiri
  20. Sundarapandiapuram
  21. Thiruvenkadam
  22. vadakarai keezhpadugai
  23. Vasudevanallur

    Proposed Municipalities

  24. Alangulam
  25. Keelapavoor
  26. Vasudevanallur
  27. Sivagiri
  28. Thiruvenkadam

    Proposed Town Panchayats

  29. Veerakeralampudur
  30. Kadayam
  31. Melaneelithanallur
  32. Kuruvikulam

    Panchayat Unions / Blocks

  33. Shenkottai
  34. Tenkasi
  35. Kadayanallur
  36. Vasudevanallur
  37. Sankarankoil
  38. Kuruvikulam
  39. Melaneelithanallur
  40. Keelapavoor
  41. Alangulam
  42. kasidharmam
  43. Kadayam

    Politics

is part of Tenkasi Lok Sabha constituency. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes.

Parliamentary Constituency

Assembly constituencies

Demographics

At the time of the 2011 census, Tenkasi district had a population of 1,420,064. Tenkasi district has 697,635 males and 743,160 females with a sex ratio of 1065 females per 1000 males. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes made up 292,900 and 3,656 of the population respectively. 613,758 of the population lived in urban areas.
At the time of the 2011 census, 98.77% of the population spoke Tamil and 0.92% Telugu as their first language.

Villages

  • Anaikutiyur
  • Avudaiyanoor
  • Kodikurichi
  • Subramaniapuram
  • Thattankulam