Kanadukathan is a panchayat town in Sivaganga district

Sivaganga District

Sivaganga District is an administrative district of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. The city of Sivaganga is the district headquarters. It is bounded by Pudukkottai district on the Northeast, Tiruchirapalli district on the North, Ramanathapuram district on South East, Virudhunagar district...

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 of Tamil Nadu

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, 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

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 stip, unfortunately the local business people didn't concentrate much on their home town.Where as 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

• 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

• Ponnazhagi amman thiruvizha is a 10 day festival, is held on month of may.
• Hari poojai is held on month of may.
• Sivarathiri
  Maha Shivaratri
  Maha Shivratri or Maha Sivaratri or Shivaratri or Sivarathri is a Hindu festival celebrated every year on the 13th night/14th day in the Krishna Paksha of the month of Maagha or Phalguna...
  
   is held on month of march, during sivarathiri
  Maha Shivaratri
  Maha Shivratri or Maha Sivaratri or Shivaratri or Sivarathri is a Hindu festival celebrated every year on the 13th night/14th day in the Krishna Paksha of the month of Maagha or Phalguna...
  
   people take kavadi
  Kavadi
  Kavadi Attam is a dance performed by the devotees during the ceremonial worship of Murugan, the Tamil God of War. It is often performed during the festival of Thaipusam and emphasizes debt bondage. The Kavadi itself is a physical burden through which the devotees implore for help from the God...
  
  from pazhaiyur(old kanadukathan) to solai andavar temple(approx 4 km).

Schools /Colleges

• 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

• Pillayarpatti Kovil- 1,600 years old religious place, 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

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