11°35′N 77°51′E / 11.58°N 77.85°E Edappadi is a taluk of Salem district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.[1] The administrative centre is the town of Edappadi. The taluk contains two panchayat towns, Konganapuram and Poolampatti,[2] and ten panchayat villages.[3] The Edappadi revenue block is coterminous with the taluk.
Brick manufacturing is prevalent in Pakkandu panchayat which is famous for its red soil. The rock deposited area of western Kavadikaranoor village is famous for granite quarries.
The taluk has a considerable migrating population that comes in to cut the sugarcane crop. Crops in the area are mostly rainfed except for irrigation in Nedungulam panchayat which lies on the banks of Cauvery River. Sarabanga is a river flowing through Edappadi leads to a lake.
In the 1800s major and wealthy community in the edappadi town was Chettiar community. Majority of meenavar community people migrated to Edappadi town from nearby villages and distant villages as well during 1900s. Now, most of the people in the taluk belong to the meenavar and Vanniyar and Kongu Vellalar and some notable Chettiar community. The taluk also has sizeable count of Adi Dravidar and some other people also with brotherhood relation.
The chairman of the panchayat union council in 2012 was Thiru A. Madhes.
- ^ "Taluk Information: Salem District: Edappadi Block - Panchayat Villages". Salem District. Archived from the original on 2 May 2012.
- ^ "NPR Report: Tamil Nadu: Salem: Edappadi". National Population Register, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.
- ^ "Reports of National Panchayat Directory: Village Panchayat Names of Idappadi, Salem, Tamil Nadu". Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Archived from the original on 24 April 2013. Retrieved 24 April 2013.