Kanadukathan
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Kanadukathan Location of Kanadukathan in Tamil Nadu and India
Coordinates	10°10′00″N 78°47′28″E / 10.16667°N 78.79111°E / 10.16667; 78.79111Coordinates: 10°10′00″N 78°47′28″E / 10.16667°N 78.79111°E / 10.16667; 78.79111
Country	India
State	Tamil Nadu
District(s)	Sivaganga
Population	4,795 (2001[update])
Time zone	IST (UTC+05:30)

Kanadukathan is a panchayat town in Sivaganga district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

Demographics[link]

As of 2001^[update] India census,^[1] Kanadukathan had a population of 4795. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Kanadukathan has an average literacy rate of 74%, higher than the national average of 63.4%: male literacy is 80%, and female literacy is 67%. In Kanadukathan, 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Specialities[link]

Kanadukathan is mainly famous for big chettinad houses and chettinad foods.Calm Locality, Worth to see the Palace of Chettinad Raja and other prominent people's big bungalows ( Chettinad houses )of course most of them are vacant or less occupied.Main entrances and maindoors are carved nicely like temples.

This place was earlier planned for a full fledged town, even they got small air strip, unfortunately the local business people didn't concentrate much on their home town.Whereas they are running very successful business all over Tamil Nadu.

We can learn lot about rain water harvesting from these people. All their man made Ponds (oorani) are covered with unique water harvesting techniques with natural purifying process.The water collected on these ponds are tasting good. Till eighties the local people were consuming water from the ponds (OORANI ).

Famous Temples[link]

• Solai Andvar Temple
• Siva Temple
• Chettiah Oorni Vinayagar Temple
• Ponnazhagi Amman Temple
• Maata Oorni Vinayagar Temple [Chidambara vinayagar]
• Chettinad Siva Temple
• Ayyanar Temple
• Vairava Vinayagar Temple
• Paramanur Kali Temple
• Anjaneyar Temple
• Sundaramoorthy Vinayagar Temple
• Nagamuthu Marriamman Temple
• Varadaraja Perumal Temple

Events[link]

• Ponnazhagi amman thiruvizha is a 10 day festival, is held on month of may of every year.
• Hari poojai is held on month of may of every year.
• Sivarathiri is held on month of march, during sivarathiri people take kavadi from pazhaiyur(old kanadukathan) to solai andavar temple(approx 4 km).

Schools /Colleges[link]

• M.ct.M.Chidambaram Chettiyar Higher secondary School [ISO 9001 Certified]
• M.ct.M.Chidambaram Chettiyar Elementary School
• Cv.CT.Matriculation School
• Annamalai Polytechnic College

Places of interest[link]

• Pillayarpatti Kovil- 1,600 years old religious place,^[2] Hindu Temple (16 km)
• Kundrakudi Murugan Kovil- religious place (Hill Temple), Hindu Temple (14 km)
• Thirumayan Fort - historical place (10 km)
• Chettinad Palace - heritage site
• Island Bungalow - heritage site

Connect with major cities[link]

By Road : Located in Trichy - Rameshwaram National highways [NH-210]. 82 km from trichy,159 km from rameshwaram,419 km from bangalore,287 km from Coimbatore and 405 km from chennai, 14 km from Karaikudi
By Train : The station is called Chettinaad and is located on the Trichy - Rameswhwaram line. The Chennai - Rameshwaram express (16701) and Rameshwaram - Chennai express (16702) halt in this station apart from a Trichy-Rameshwaram, Trichy-Karaikudi, Trichy-Manamadurai

References[link]

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