Panpoli is a small village situated near Sengottai in Tirunelveli district

Tirunelveli District

Tirunelveli District is a district of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. The city of Tirunelveli is the district headquarters. A unique feature of this district is that it encompasses all five geographical traditions of Tamil Literature; kurinji , mullai , marudham , neithal and palai...

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Panpoli is a beautiful place to visit for its greenish environment, hill views and its humanity.
Panpoli also has some amazing historical places which worth mentioning,Panpoli is full of exotic beauty of nature which is still untapped by Government of Tourism.
Government has to look in to it and develop our locality.

Demographics

India census

Census

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, Panpoli had a population of 8530. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Panpoli has an average literacy rate of 66%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 75%, and female literacy is 57%. In Panpoli, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Civic Administration

Panpoli has been entitled with 15 wards as a Town Panchayat.

Current office bearers for the term (2011–2016)

• Panchayat Chairman : R.Sankara Subramanian
• Vice Chairman : M.Kaja Mohaideen

Councillors :

• Ward 1 :S.Sornavalli
• Ward 2 :A.ArumugaChamy
• Ward 3 :S.Azhagudurai
• Ward 4 :T.Murugan
• Ward 5 :M.Kaja Mohaideen
• Ward 6 :K.Ismail
• Ward 7 :A.Murugan
• Ward 8 :S.Murugan
• Ward 9 :M.Rathnavathi
• Ward 10 :R.Murugaiah
• Ward 11 :M.Nabeesal
• Ward 12 :S.SeguKannu
• Ward 13 :A.Fathima Beevi
• Ward 14 :S.Syed Ali
• Ward 15 :M.Mariammal

Economy

Panpoli's economy is mainly agro-based. The Village acts as a focal point for food grains transported from the adjoining areas of the Tirunelveli district and Kerala mainly. Furthermore there are many males working overseas and sending back money to their families. Due to that the locals are doing better in many ways, with some of them building bigger houses and other buildings.

There has been ongoing public upgrades such as road works in the area over the pass year.

Agriculture

Agriculture in Panpoli is the main source of livelihood for most of the people of Panpoli. Rice and Coconut Cultivation has been the major occupation of the local inhabitants. since the land is ideally suited for growing crops like Rice and coccunut.

Transportation

Bus available for Chennai:

• Chennai ultra deluxe buses

184 UD, two buses are regularly operated from Sengottai,
184 UD, video coach
Trains available at Sengottai include(4 km From Panpoli):

• Sengottai – Madurai Passenger
• Sengottai – Chennai Egmore
  Chennai Egmore
  Chennai Egmore , formerly known as Madras Egmore, is a railway station in Egmore, Chennai , South India. The station acts as the arrival and departure point for trains connecting Chennai and southern, central Tamil Nadu and Kerala.This is one of the two main railway terminals in the city along with...
  
   Pothigai Express
  Pothigai Express
  The Pothigai Express is a train service running between Chennai Egmore and Sengottai on the Southern Railway zone of the government-owned Indian Railways...
  
  
• Punalur-Sengottai Passenger(Stoppted due Broadguage conversion)

These two depots operate buses from Sengottai to various cities of Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry and Kerala. The main cities are Chennai, Tirupur, Coimbatore, Trichy, Madurai, Tiruchendur, Tuticorin, Srivilliputtur and Ramanathapuram in Tamil Nadu and Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram

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Kottarakkara

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Kottayam

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Quilon

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 (Kollam) in Kerala and Pondicherry in Pondicherry UD.

Educational institutions

Schools

• EMR Govt. Secondary School
• RKV Middle School
• Rasheeth Primary School
• Joy Primary School
• st.Joseph Matric school

Colleges near to Panpoli

• Sri Parasakthi College for Women(courtallam)
• JP engineering college(Ayikudi)
• Nallamani yadhav college of art and science(Kodikuruchi)

Tourist areas

• Adavi nainar Dam(Mekarai) (7 km from Panpoli)
• Manalar and Kumbaratty Falls in Kerala (14 km from Panpoli)
• Courtallam waterfalls (9 km from Panpoli)
• Thenmalai dam (28 km from Panpoli)
• Paalaruvi Falls (19 km from Panpoli)
• Natural Rock formations all over the area.

Temples

• A famous Murugan temple called "Thirumalai Kovil" has 605 steps, and is situated at Panpoli