Tambaram
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Tambaram is a suburb of Chennai
situated 27 km south of the city in Tamil Nadu
, India
. It is an urban node. Tambaram is a hub to all major destinations in south Tamil Nadu
as it lies on the busy Chennai–Trichy national highway
. The highway and the railway
line from Chennai Egmore
to Kanyakumari divide the town into East Tambaram and West Tambaram. The Chennai suburban railway
network operates a suburban railway service from Chennai Beach
to Tambaram.
Tambaram is considered to be a satellite town as it caters to the needs of hundreds of suburbs like Padappai, Selaiyur
, Agaram, Madambakkam
, Mudichur and Mannivakkam. Tambaram is geographically divided into West, East and Tambaram Sanatorium
. East Tambaram is well known for its many educational institutions. The prominent among them is the Madras Christian College
.
, Tambaram has its origins in a village of the same name which lay on the outskirts of Chennai city. There are many explanations for the origins of the name. The most widely held theory is that there was a temple once and it was called as Tamburamana Gunaseela Nallur which phonetically slurred to Tambaram. In 1936-1937, the Madras Christian College
campus was moved to Tambaram heralding development and accelerating the process of inclusion of Tambaram in Madras city.
Tambaram in general is considered as a haven for engineering and management graduates because of the many colleges located nearby. Some of the notable engineering colleges and business school in Tambaram include:
The notable schools in Tambaram include:
The East Tambaram branch library of the Kancheepuram District Library Authority is located in Gandhi Park, which has been functioning from a building built by the Tambaram municipality for more than five decades. It has 1,290 registered members and gets more than 200 readers daily, but has space for only about 15 people. Opened in July 1957, the library has 38,145 books and subscribes all periodicals, news magazines, weeklies and journals. An amount of 1.7 million was allotted from Tambaram MLA's local area development funds to renovate the building.
per day. In 2011, the population increased to 176,807, registering a decadal growth of 28 percent. The extent of the municipality is 20.72 km².
The revenue villages under this municipality are Pulikoradu, Kadapperi, Tambaram, Irumbliyur, and Selaiyur. The number of households is 26,333, the number of notified slums is 17 and the number of unnotified slums is 7.
The Tambaram range comprises forest lands in Nanmangalam, Madurapakkam, Tambaram, Pulikoradu, Kumili, Vandalur, Onnamancherry, Erumaiyur, Vattampakkam and Vadakupattu.
The most famous road in West Tambaram is the Shanmugam Road which is one of the busiest roads in the city. The eastern part of the road is the commercial centre while the western end is called the Medical centre. Tambaram has famous hospitals and diagnostic centres like Hindu Mission Hospital, Deepam Hospital, Philips Hospital, AG Hospital, VN Hospital etc. It had three theatre
s called MR on the main road, National slightly off the main road till 1972, and the biggest of the three named Vidhya Theatre.
In January 2011, renovation of the century-old park in West Tambaram located adjacent to the Tambaram police station, off the Grand Southern Trunk (GST) Road, began at a cost of 4.85 million under the Community-Based Environmental Scheme 2010-2011. Spread over 3.6 acres, the park is visited by more than 2,000 residents every day. As the park also has a few temples, it also attracts devotees. While 80% of the funds were provided by the Chennai Metropolitan Development Agency (CMDA) in the form of a grant, the rest has come in equal parts from the residents and the local body's general funds. Plans for the park include a cascade, artificial fountain and pond. Around 3,500 sq m will be converted into a lawn, and 10,500 ornamental saplings will be planted. It will also have a tiled footpath covering a distance of 555m with 20 LED lights. More than a dozen concrete slabs and 20 benches will be places in the park.
With the opening of several parks such as Gandhi park in East Tambaram, Thirupur Kumaran park in Selaiyur and Krishna Nagar park and the creating of parks at Burma Colony and Bharathi Nagar, the number of parks within the municipality limits has increased to about 18.
for every travel down south. It provides easy access for the travellers. Recently Southern Railway is planning a new terminal at Tambaram Railway Station, apart from Chennai Central and Egmore, in view of the rapid growth of the south broad gauge section, which essentially means Chennai Beach-Tambaram-Chengalpattu-Tiruchirapalli and beyond. As a first step towards this, Southern Railway plans to set up a coaching terminal at Tambaram at an approximate cost of Rs.34 crore. It will have pit lines for maintenance, stabling lines and additional platforms.
A combined court complex was inaugurated near GST road opposite to MEPZ. This complex has both the Munsiff and Sessions court within the same building, thus the Magistrate court at East Tambaram and Munsiff court at West Tambaram is now under a single building. Mr. N. Ramesh is the District Munsif. Mr. Murugesan is the Judicial Magistrate.
A new flyover was completed on August 2011 connecting Velachery main Road,Mudichur Road and GST Road over the railway track. Intially the only connection is via underpass and a railway level crossing, which used to cause huge congesstion on the Arterial GST Road (NH45). The new flyover is expected to help the people to move between east and west tambaram more easily.
A new bus terminus in Tambaram is under construction and will be completed by the end of September 2011. The work began in December 2010, when 4.26 acres of land was allocated to the Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) to set up a bus terminus. Estimated to cost 56.7 million, it was originally scheduled to be completed by February 2012. The new bus terminus will have a room for the bus crew to rest, a cloak room, bus bays, 19 bus shelters, 31 shops, hotels, drinking water facilities and toilets. When it is completed, the MTC is planning to use the new terminus to operate buses especially to fast growing suburbs around Tambaram, like Mannivakkam and Ponmar. The second phase of the work will witness construction of eight more bus shelters.
Proposed Monorail Corridor: Recently, the Govt. has announced the following routes as part of Phase 1 of the Chennai Monorail network.
Vandalur to Puzhal (54 km)
Route: Vandalur -Tambaram -MEPZ -Pallavaram -Pammal -Kundrathur -Mangadu -Karayanchavadi -Melpakkam -Paruthipattu -Avadi -Thirumullaivoyal -Ambattur O.T -Pudur -Surapet -Puzhal
Vandalur to Velachery (23 km)
Route: Vandalur -Perungalathur -Irumbuliyur -Tambaram East -Sembakkam -Gowrivakkam -Medavakkam -Pallikaranai -Narayanapuram -Velachery
Tambaram municipality, however, does not have a common under ground drainage system (UGD). A 1060 million UGD project has been commissioned but the residents' welfare associations has raised objections to sewage pumping station coming up in a 9,600-sq ft park in Amal Nagar in West Tambaram, filing petitions at the Madras High Court.
, Tambaram had a population of 137,609. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Tambaram has an average literacy rate of 78%, higher than the national average of 65%: male literacy is 82%, and female literacy is 74%. In Tambaram, 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.
The number of people below the poverty line is 9,171.
The 2011 population was about 196,000. In addition, it has a floating population of more than 100,000, chiefly consisting of people from neighbouring villages who visit Tambaram on work daily. The population of Tambaram region, however, is more than 1 million.
Tambaram Railway Station divides Tambaram into East Tambaram and West Tambaram. East Tambaram (Selaiyur) and West Tambaram each have a police
station.
Taluk Legal Services Authority, to render free legal services to the poor & needy and also to create legal awareness, is functioning at the Tambaram Civil Court. The Civil Court Judge is the Chairman of the Taluk Legal Services Authority. At present, Mr. N. Ramesh is the District Munsif at Tambaram who is rendering good legal service to the poor.
In 2009, Tambaram taluk was trifurcated into Tambaram, Sholinganallur and Alandur taluks. Clubbing all the three taluks, a new revenue division with Tambaram as headquarters was formed.
For decades, Tambaram was the second largest assembly constituency, next only to Villivakkam
. After delimitation, the number of voters has come down to 238,000. Now, the constituency consists of Tambaram, Sembakkam, Chitlapakkam, Madambakkam, Perungalathur, Peerkankaranai, Mudichur, Agaram Then, Madurapakkam and Tiruvanchery. It has 253 polling booths.
[exercise] by the Election Commission of India
,the Tambaram assembly constituency consists of Tambaram Municipality; Town Panchayats of Chitlapakkam, Sembakkam, Madambakkam, Perungalathur, and Peerkankaranai; Village Panchayats of Mudichur, Tiruvancheri, Kasbapuram, Vengapakkam, Agaramthen, Kovilancheri, Madurapakkam and Moolacheri in Tambaram taluk. http://ceotamilnadu.nic.in/
Tambaram is now included in the Chennai South Parliamentary constituency after the recent delimitation exercise by the Election Commission of India.http://ceotamilnadu.nic.in/
Chennai
Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...
situated 27 km south of the city in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. It is an urban node. Tambaram is a hub to all major destinations in south Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...
as it lies on the busy Chennai–Trichy national highway
Indian highways
The National Highways Network of India, is a network of highways that is managed and maintained by agencies of the Government of India. These highways measured over as of 2010, including over of limited-access Expressways....
. The highway and the railway
Rail transport in India
Rail transport is a commonly used mode of long-distance transportation in India. Almost all rail operations in India are handled by a state-owned organisation, Indian Railways, Ministry of Railways. The rail network traverses the length and breadth of the country, covering a total length of...
line from 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...
to Kanyakumari divide the town into East Tambaram and West Tambaram. The Chennai suburban railway
Chennai suburban railway
Chennai suburban railway is a commuter rail system in the Indian city of Chennai operated by the Southern Railway. Chennai has a complex railway network. The system uses electrical multiple units operating on alternating current drawn from over-head cables through the catenary system...
network operates a suburban railway service from Chennai Beach
Chennai Beach
Chennai Beach , formerly known as Madras Beach, is a railway terminus of the Southern Railway Network in Chennai , India. This station handles mainly suburban trains in Chennai suburban railway and a few passenger trains...
to Tambaram.
Tambaram is considered to be a satellite town as it caters to the needs of hundreds of suburbs like Padappai, Selaiyur
Selaiyur
Selaiyur is a town near Tambaram, Chennai. This town is located on the Tambaram - Velachery Road. Once upon a time, this place was called as Silaiyur...
, Agaram, Madambakkam
Madambakkam
Madambakkam is a panchayat town in Kancheepuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It borders Selaiyur, Vengaivasal and Sithalapakkam.-Geography:Madambakkam is located at . It has an average elevation of 29 metres...
, Mudichur and Mannivakkam. Tambaram is geographically divided into West, East and Tambaram Sanatorium
Tambaram Sanatorium
Tambaram Sanatorium is a locality and railway station on the Chennai Beach - Tambaram section of the Chennai suburban railway.It was originally a part of Tambaram, but later developed as a separate town due to the railway station and the TB Sanatorium and the Madras Export Processing Zone MEPZ)...
. East Tambaram is well known for its many educational institutions. The prominent among them is the Madras Christian College
Madras Christian College
The Madras Christian College, commonly known as MCC, is a liberal arts and sciences college in Madras , India. Founded in 1837, MCC is one of Asia's oldest extant colleges. Currently, the college is affiliated to the University of Madras, but functions as an autonomous institution from its campus...
.
History
Originally an entrenchment camp for the erstwhile East India Company in the late 17th century during the Carnatic warsCarnatic Wars
The Carnatic Wars were a series of military conflicts in the middle of the 18th century on the Indian subcontinent...
, Tambaram has its origins in a village of the same name which lay on the outskirts of Chennai city. There are many explanations for the origins of the name. The most widely held theory is that there was a temple once and it was called as Tamburamana Gunaseela Nallur which phonetically slurred to Tambaram. In 1936-1937, the Madras Christian College
Madras Christian College
The Madras Christian College, commonly known as MCC, is a liberal arts and sciences college in Madras , India. Founded in 1837, MCC is one of Asia's oldest extant colleges. Currently, the college is affiliated to the University of Madras, but functions as an autonomous institution from its campus...
campus was moved to Tambaram heralding development and accelerating the process of inclusion of Tambaram in Madras city.
Education
Tambaram town has been recorded with a literacy rate of 82% in the year 2001 and this has increased from 75% in the year 1991. Among the literate population, nearly 52% are male literates and the remaining 48% are female literates as per the 2001 census. Generally, the composition of female literates among the female population has increased from 70% (1991) to 78% (2001), which is higher than the growth of male literates from 81% (1991) to 86% (2001).Tambaram in general is considered as a haven for engineering and management graduates because of the many colleges located nearby. Some of the notable engineering colleges and business school in Tambaram include:
- Madras Institute of Technology,Anna University, Chrompet (near Tambaram) http://www.mitindia.edu
- B. S. Abdur Rahman UniversityB. S. Abdur Rahman UniversityB. S. Abdur Rahman University is a private university from the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Previously functioning under Madras University and Anna University as B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Engineering College, the institute gained deemed status in 2008–09, and was renamed B. S. Abdur Rahman...
(formerly Crescent Engineering College), VandalurVandalurVandalur is a census town in Kancheepuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The Arignar Anna Zoological Park, located here houses some rare species of wild flora and fauna and is famous throughout India....
(near Tambaram) - Sri Sai Ram Engineering collegeSri Sai Ram Engineering collegeSri Sairam Engineering college is an engineering institution located in the suburbs of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The Institution earned ISO 9001:2000 Certification from Bureau Veritas Quality International.-Certification:...
- Eva Stalin Business School
- Bharath UniversityBharath Institute of Science and TechnologyBharath Institute of Science and Technology is a technological college in Chennai, India. It was established as Bharath Engineering College, a technical college in the year 2010. The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, has conferred a full-fledged University status to the...
- Dhanalakshmi College of Engineering
- GKM College of Engineering & Technology
- SRM UniversitySRM UniversitySRM University is a co-educational private university from the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It was founded in the year 1985 as SRM Engineering college in Kattankulathur, under Anna University. The university now has four campuses in Tamil Nadu , one in Modinagar, near Delhi...
, Kattankulatthur (near Tambaram) - Tagore Engineering College
- Eva Stalin IAS Academy
The notable schools in Tambaram include:
- Corley Higher Secondary School,Tambaram
- Zion Matriculation Hr Sec SchoolZion Matriculation Higher Secondary SchoolThe Zion Matriculation Higher Secondary School is a system of schools in India established and managed by the Zion Matriculation Higher Secondary School Society. They were conceived in 1989 by Dr. L.N.Vijayan, the then Air Force Officer of India, to prepare students for entry into the Next...
- Alwin Memorial Public School
- Sairam Matriculation School, Tambaram
- Crescent School, Vandalur
- St. Mary's Matriculation School, Tambaram
- Alpha Matriculation School, Sembakkam
- Kendriya Vidyalaya Tambaram (No.2) (http://www.kv2tambaram.tn.nic.in/)
- Kendriya Vidyalaya Tambaram (No.1) (http://www.kv1tambaram.tn.nic.in/)
- Jaigopal Garodia National Higher Secondary School(East Tambaram)
- Sitadevi Garodia Hindu Vidyalaya, http://www.sitadevi.com
- Sri Sankara Vidyalaya Matriculation Higher Secondary School
- Good Earth School
- Christ King School
- Campus School (MCC)
- Valluvar Gurukulam Educational Institution near to Radha Petrol Bunk
- Seventh Day Adventist Matriculation School (Near to Ponnuchami Hotel)
- Shri Anand Jain Vidyalaya
- Shri Natesan Vidyasala Matriculation School, www.natesanschool.org
- Baby High School
- Madras Seva Sadan Higher Secondary School
- Sri Ramakrishna Matriculation Higher Secondary School
- Shanthosh Vidyalaya Matriculation Higher Secondary School, East-Tambaram.
The East Tambaram branch library of the Kancheepuram District Library Authority is located in Gandhi Park, which has been functioning from a building built by the Tambaram municipality for more than five decades. It has 1,290 registered members and gets more than 200 readers daily, but has space for only about 15 people. Opened in July 1957, the library has 38,145 books and subscribes all periodicals, news magazines, weeklies and journals. An amount of 1.7 million was allotted from Tambaram MLA's local area development funds to renovate the building.
The Municipality
Prior to 1964, Tambaram was a small panchayat. In 1964 it was constituted as a Grade III Municipality comprising the Village Panchayats of Pulikoradu, Kadapperi, Tambaram, Irumbliyur, and Selaiyur. Due to rapid development and growth of the town commercially and residentially, the Municipality is now classified as a 'Selection Grade Municipality'. The population as per 2001 census is 1,33,667 besides a floating population of more than 1 lakhLakh
A lakh is a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to one hundred thousand . It is widely used both in official and other contexts in Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and is often used in Indian English.-Usage:...
per day. In 2011, the population increased to 176,807, registering a decadal growth of 28 percent. The extent of the municipality is 20.72 km².
The revenue villages under this municipality are Pulikoradu, Kadapperi, Tambaram, Irumbliyur, and Selaiyur. The number of households is 26,333, the number of notified slums is 17 and the number of unnotified slums is 7.
The Tambaram range comprises forest lands in Nanmangalam, Madurapakkam, Tambaram, Pulikoradu, Kumili, Vandalur, Onnamancherry, Erumaiyur, Vattampakkam and Vadakupattu.
The most famous road in West Tambaram is the Shanmugam Road which is one of the busiest roads in the city. The eastern part of the road is the commercial centre while the western end is called the Medical centre. Tambaram has famous hospitals and diagnostic centres like Hindu Mission Hospital, Deepam Hospital, Philips Hospital, AG Hospital, VN Hospital etc. It had three theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
s called MR on the main road, National slightly off the main road till 1972, and the biggest of the three named Vidhya Theatre.
Parks
Tambaram municipality has four parks. It is renovating 15 other parks within its limits at a cost ranging from 0.5 to 4 million. Under the plan, the park at Ganesh Nagar will be built at a cost of 600,000 over 14,400 square feet of land. Construction of the park is expected to be completed by June 2011. The work order for the park was given on 23 February 2011. The new park would have a tiled foot path, a fountain, concrete seating arrangements, play equipment for children, lighting facilities, water taps and a garden with herbal plants.In January 2011, renovation of the century-old park in West Tambaram located adjacent to the Tambaram police station, off the Grand Southern Trunk (GST) Road, began at a cost of 4.85 million under the Community-Based Environmental Scheme 2010-2011. Spread over 3.6 acres, the park is visited by more than 2,000 residents every day. As the park also has a few temples, it also attracts devotees. While 80% of the funds were provided by the Chennai Metropolitan Development Agency (CMDA) in the form of a grant, the rest has come in equal parts from the residents and the local body's general funds. Plans for the park include a cascade, artificial fountain and pond. Around 3,500 sq m will be converted into a lawn, and 10,500 ornamental saplings will be planted. It will also have a tiled footpath covering a distance of 555m with 20 LED lights. More than a dozen concrete slabs and 20 benches will be places in the park.
With the opening of several parks such as Gandhi park in East Tambaram, Thirupur Kumaran park in Selaiyur and Krishna Nagar park and the creating of parks at Burma Colony and Bharathi Nagar, the number of parks within the municipality limits has increased to about 18.
Recent developments
Tambaram is a very important hub connecting various places in south Tamil Nadu. It has trains to various towns in the state. The train services from tambaram has proved very useful for the travellers as it will be inconvenient for them to travel to Chennai EgmoreChennai 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...
for every travel down south. It provides easy access for the travellers. Recently Southern Railway is planning a new terminal at Tambaram Railway Station, apart from Chennai Central and Egmore, in view of the rapid growth of the south broad gauge section, which essentially means Chennai Beach-Tambaram-Chengalpattu-Tiruchirapalli and beyond. As a first step towards this, Southern Railway plans to set up a coaching terminal at Tambaram at an approximate cost of Rs.34 crore. It will have pit lines for maintenance, stabling lines and additional platforms.
A combined court complex was inaugurated near GST road opposite to MEPZ. This complex has both the Munsiff and Sessions court within the same building, thus the Magistrate court at East Tambaram and Munsiff court at West Tambaram is now under a single building. Mr. N. Ramesh is the District Munsif. Mr. Murugesan is the Judicial Magistrate.
A new flyover was completed on August 2011 connecting Velachery main Road,Mudichur Road and GST Road over the railway track. Intially the only connection is via underpass and a railway level crossing, which used to cause huge congesstion on the Arterial GST Road (NH45). The new flyover is expected to help the people to move between east and west tambaram more easily.
A new bus terminus in Tambaram is under construction and will be completed by the end of September 2011. The work began in December 2010, when 4.26 acres of land was allocated to the Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) to set up a bus terminus. Estimated to cost 56.7 million, it was originally scheduled to be completed by February 2012. The new bus terminus will have a room for the bus crew to rest, a cloak room, bus bays, 19 bus shelters, 31 shops, hotels, drinking water facilities and toilets. When it is completed, the MTC is planning to use the new terminus to operate buses especially to fast growing suburbs around Tambaram, like Mannivakkam and Ponmar. The second phase of the work will witness construction of eight more bus shelters.
Proposed Monorail Corridor: Recently, the Govt. has announced the following routes as part of Phase 1 of the Chennai Monorail network.
Vandalur to Puzhal (54 km)
Route: Vandalur -Tambaram -MEPZ -Pallavaram -Pammal -Kundrathur -Mangadu -Karayanchavadi -Melpakkam -Paruthipattu -Avadi -Thirumullaivoyal -Ambattur O.T -Pudur -Surapet -Puzhal
Vandalur to Velachery (23 km)
Route: Vandalur -Perungalathur -Irumbuliyur -Tambaram East -Sembakkam -Gowrivakkam -Medavakkam -Pallikaranai -Narayanapuram -Velachery
Tambaram municipality, however, does not have a common under ground drainage system (UGD). A 1060 million UGD project has been commissioned but the residents' welfare associations has raised objections to sewage pumping station coming up in a 9,600-sq ft park in Amal Nagar in West Tambaram, filing petitions at the Madras High Court.
Demographics
As of the 2001 Indian censusCensus
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...
, Tambaram had a population of 137,609. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Tambaram has an average literacy rate of 78%, higher than the national average of 65%: male literacy is 82%, and female literacy is 74%. In Tambaram, 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.
The number of people below the poverty line is 9,171.
The 2011 population was about 196,000. In addition, it has a floating population of more than 100,000, chiefly consisting of people from neighbouring villages who visit Tambaram on work daily. The population of Tambaram region, however, is more than 1 million.
Occupational Pattern
The working population constitutes 55 % of the total population and the majority of them are engaged in Business & Industrial activities i.e. 62% in Industrial and Business related activities. The Secondary Sector is the second important activity and nearly 25% of the total workers are engaged in business and related allied activities. Only 20% of the total workers are engaged in the Primary Sector, especially in Tea Plantations and Agriculture activities.Topography
It has an average elevation of 32 metres (104 feet).Tambaram Railway Station divides Tambaram into East Tambaram and West Tambaram. East Tambaram (Selaiyur) and West Tambaram each have a police
Police
The police is a personification of the state designated to put in practice the enforced law, protect property and reduce civil disorder in civilian matters. Their powers include the legitimized use of force...
station.
Taluk Legal Services Authority, to render free legal services to the poor & needy and also to create legal awareness, is functioning at the Tambaram Civil Court. The Civil Court Judge is the Chairman of the Taluk Legal Services Authority. At present, Mr. N. Ramesh is the District Munsif at Tambaram who is rendering good legal service to the poor.
In 2009, Tambaram taluk was trifurcated into Tambaram, Sholinganallur and Alandur taluks. Clubbing all the three taluks, a new revenue division with Tambaram as headquarters was formed.
For decades, Tambaram was the second largest assembly constituency, next only to Villivakkam
Villivakkam
- History :According to legend, two demons, 'Ilvalan' and 'Vatapi', who were born to Sage Dhurva and Aswamukhi, tortured the entire world and killed many innocent people. One of the demons used to take the shape of a fruit and the other used to offer it to some innocent passer-by and after he...
. After delimitation, the number of voters has come down to 238,000. Now, the constituency consists of Tambaram, Sembakkam, Chitlapakkam, Madambakkam, Perungalathur, Peerkankaranai, Mudichur, Agaram Then, Madurapakkam and Tiruvanchery. It has 253 polling booths.
Politics
After the completion of recent delimitationBoundary delimitation
Boundary delimitation, or simply delimitation, is the term used to describe the drawing of boundaries, but is most often used to describe the drawing of electoral boundaries, specifically those of precincts, states, counties or other municipalities...
[exercise] by the Election Commission of India
Election Commission of India
The Election Commission of India is an autonomous, quasi-judiciary constitutional body of India. Its mission is to conduct free and fair elections in India...
,the Tambaram assembly constituency consists of Tambaram Municipality; Town Panchayats of Chitlapakkam, Sembakkam, Madambakkam, Perungalathur, and Peerkankaranai; Village Panchayats of Mudichur, Tiruvancheri, Kasbapuram, Vengapakkam, Agaramthen, Kovilancheri, Madurapakkam and Moolacheri in Tambaram taluk. http://ceotamilnadu.nic.in/
Tambaram is now included in the Chennai South Parliamentary constituency after the recent delimitation exercise by the Election Commission of India.http://ceotamilnadu.nic.in/
