Guruvarajapet
Guruvarajapet is a census town located in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Guruvarajapeet | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Guruvarajapeet Location in Tamil Nadu, India  Guruvarajapeet Guruvarajapeet (India) | |
| Coordinates: 13°06′45″N 79°32′50″E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Tamil Nadu |
| District | Vellore district |
| Population (2011 Indian census) | |
| • Total | 12,458 people |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Tamil |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
Geography
It is located 85 km from the state capital of Chennai.
Demographics
Population
According to the 2011 Indian Census, Guruvarajapet has a population of 12,550, consisting of 6,284 males and 6,266 females.[1] According to the census, there are 1,408 children between the ages of 0–6, accounting for 11.23% of the total population. The Guruvarajapet City Municipality is responsible for providing basic services to over 2,999 local households. The literacy rate in Guruvarajapet is 72.71%, which is lower than the state average of 80.09%. The literacy rate of the male population is 83.99%, while that of the female population is 61.52%. The majority of employed people in Guruvarajapet are weavers and the village remains one of the principal lungi manufacturing villages in the Vellore district.[2][3]
Religion
| Hindu | 98.37% |
| Muslim | 0.47% |
| Christian | 0.32% |
| Sikh | 0.01% |
| Buddhist | 0.00% |
| Jain | 0.01% |
| Others | 0.02% |
| Not Stated | 0.81% |
Languages
Tamil is the most widely spoken language in Guruvarajapet, though Telugu is also prevalent as the village neighbors the Telugu-speaking state of Andhra Pradesh.
Politics
Guruvarajapet is part of the Arakkonam (Lok Sabha constituency). The AIDMK candidate Ravi Subramani won the Arakkonam assembly constituency in the 2016 elections. In the 2009 parliamentary elections, the DMK candidate Shri S. Jagathrakshakan was elected as the MP from this constituency. In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, L. Hari Krishnan of AIADMK won the parliamentary seat from the DMK with a margin of over 240,000 votes. He polled 493,534 votes while the DMK candidate N.R. Elango polled just 252,768.
Education
The P.A. Sekar Scientific Research Center was established in Guruvarajapet by P. A. Sekar for the promotion of innovation in rural businesses like textile weaving and agriculture. This scientific research center received the Best Invention Award 2014 and Sakar delivered a speech at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras about his new inventions to aid the handloom and power loom industry.[4]
A Government Higher Secondary School[5] and several other public schools are located throughout Guruvarajapet.
Notable people
Thiru. V. Kalyanasundaram, a famous scholar, stayed in this village for a brief period of time with Mangalam Kizhar.
References
- "Syndicate Bank guruvarajapet IFSC Code, MICR Code, Branch Code and Full Address". The Financial Express. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
- "Lockdown puts lungi weavers' livelihood in peril". The Hindu. 24 May 2020. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
- "SYNDICATE BANK GURUVARAJAPET, TAMIL NADU IFSC Code: Find SYNDICATE BANK GURUVARAJAPET MICR Code, IFSC Code on The Economic Times". The Economic Times. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
- "Department of Humanities and Social Sciences". Archived from the original on 26 September 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
- Staff Reporter (9 September 2015). "BHEL reaches out to govt. schools". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
