Sengapadai

Sengapadai
village
Sengapadai Location in Tamil Nadu, India
Coordinates:
Country	India
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Madurai
Elevation	12 m (39 ft)
Population (2001)
• Total	3,712
Languages
• Official	Tamil
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)

Sengapadai (Tamil: செங்கப்படை) is a village 30 km southwest of Madurai city and 10 km southwest of Thirumangalm.

The village was created by Koon Pandiyan (Tamil: கூன் பாண்டியன்), a Pandiya King in the banks of Gounda River as a military base. During earlier period the village was known as Sengol Padai (Tamil: செங்கோல் படை), (English: Military of Throne) which later became Sengappadai.

Geography

Sengapadai is located in Tamil Nadu at the banks of river Gounda, a distributary of river Vaigai. The average elevation of Sengapadai is 12 metre.

This village itself forms a Panchayat and falls under the administrative circles as below;

District: Madurai

Taluk: Thirumangalm

Panchayat Union: Kallikudi

Postal Code : 625704

STD Code:04549

History

Koon Pandiyan has established a military base at the banks of Gounda River and this place was called as Sengol padai. Later it was known as Sengappadai. This fact is popularly known by the residents of this village.

Not much details are known through the Tamil literature about this village. However, there two very old temples by which this facts can be verified.

There are two main temples one in the west i.e. sennakesava perumal koil and one in the east sidhi vinayakar koil which was constructed in the ere of pandiya kings. The earlist vinayaka temple at the centre of the village had been defaced by the malikapur invasion and still this temple is known as Mottai pillaiyar koil due to its broken head.

Demographics

As of 2001 India census, Sengapadai had a population of 3,712. Males constitute 1859 of the population and females 1853. Sengapadai has an average literacy rate of 65%, higher than the national average of 63.5%. 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Educational facilities

This village has got educational facilities up to Higher Secondary level. The following are the schools available.

1. Panchayat Union PreKG school
2. Panchayat Union Primary school (Grade: 1 to 5)
3. CSI Primary School (Grade: 1 to 5)
4. Government Higher Secondary School (Grades 6 to 12)

A notable development in recent years is drastic growth in literacy rate which transformed it as progressive and outward looking society.

Language

Tamil is spoken predominantly in Sengapadai. The accent mainly falls under "Madurai Tamil".

Religion

At the moment, all residents in this village are Hindus (100%). However, there were few Christian missionaries activities present in past.

Many Hindu Temples are located throughout this village.

Production

Agriculture

Almost all the lands under Sengapadai's geographical limits are cultivatable. Nearly 60% of families are farmers doing Agriculture. Cotton is the main product of farmers. Sengapadai also produces grains, nuts, cattle feed, sun flower seeds and many vegetables.

Paddy is not produced as there is no big storage pond available which is necessary for the flood irrigation of paddy crop.

Weaving

Nearly 5% of families are doing weaving cloth with handlooms. Mainly cotton cloth is produced.

Service

The rest of population are engaged in Government or Private oriented services.

LIbrary

There was not a library for this thickly populated village. in 2009-10 under the Anna Marumalarchi thittam, A library was created in a new building and it now contains thousand of books of history, literature,fiction and many more.

public bathing cubicles

Two public cubicles for gents had been constructed for public use under panchayat project in the year 2008-09 which proved to be very useful for the general public specially for those who do not have bath room facility. however bathrooms for the ladies yet to be established .

Poultry and dairy farms

Few poultry farms are available, which produce Eggs and Broiler Chickens.

There are few Dairy farms, which supply milk to hardly sufficient for local consumption only.

Industry

As of now there are no industries are available in Sengapadai. Government of Tamil Nadu intends to establish a SIDCO (Small Industries) Complex here. This was heavily opposed by the local farmers in the year 2008, as this could result in loss of many trees and agricultural activities.

Living standards

Many are in the middle income group. Almost all are above the poverty level. Still there are concepts of Castism among the old generation people. This situation has greatly changed nowadays, and the people have realised their human rights.

The village has excellent water distribution and drainage network. But sanitation facilities are very poor.

Still undegradable (like Plastic, glass and metallurgical) wastes management has to be implemented by the Government. Presently these wastes are dumped along with biodegradable wastes in the farming lands. This severely affects the yields from these lands.

There are few private clinics available, which are run by Paramedics.

Postal, telegraphy, telephone and Internet services

The is a village post office available in Sengapadai, which also serves the nearby villages in collecting and distributing. Telegraphy and fax facilities are not available in the village. There are few public telephone booths operated by private owners. There are no public internet booths.

Notable number of families have wired telephone and internet facilities provided by BSNL. Almost all young generation own a cell phone.

notable number of families are now having internet connection with 2g and 3g mode3ms, but the service provided by the telecommunication companies is only 2g spectrum provided by airtel, vodafone and bsnl.

Transport

Road

Sengapadai is connected with Madurai, Thirumangalam and Kalligudi by rural roads and major State Highway roads.Now the road states also improved.

Sengapadai is connected by Tar top roads in South (towards Villur), East (towards Sivarakottai and Kalligudi), West (towards T.Pudupatti) and North (towards Madurai). now the government of Tamil Nadu has upgraded road facility to tirumangalam and sivarakottai by widening the existing road with tar road capable of double traffic in jun2013.

The primary traffic lies to Thirumangalam and Madurai. State government operated buses form main source of people transportation. Apart from city buses, three-wheeled, black and yellow auto-rickshaws, referred to as autos, are available to reach this village from Thirumangalam.

Nowadays i.e. from 01jun 2013 govt. city buses from madurai and tirumangalam are plying to sivarakottai towards east, s.gopalapuram to west and to kandithathevanpatti via puliampwatti are also plying to and fro, making this village as a nodal point of transportation to all the directions.

Rail

No railway facilities are available. The nearest railway station is Thirumangalam.

Airport

The nearest airport is Madurai Airport, which is 24kM away from this village. Many young generation have migrated to foreign nations.