Kattuputhur

Village turns to City

As of 2001 India census, Kattuputhur had a population of 11,115. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Kattuputhur has an average literacy rate of 70%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 79%, and female literacy is 60%. In Kattuputhur, 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.

The main occupation here is agriculture. Kattuputhur has one of the finest fertile lands in the Cauvery delta of Tamil Nadu.It is also one of the famous place for agricultural products and for business related works. Paddy and Banana are grown alternatively through the year. The agriculture depends on the cauvery water mainly flowing in 3 km distance from Kattuputhur. The cauvery water is made available to the fertile lands of kattuputhur and surrounding villages through canal branching out from the main cauvery river.There are many small canals which provides water to the fields and there were mostly agriculture dependent people.A new dam was built between cauvery river for irrigational uses.It is the largest dam in Tamil Nadu as dated.The dam also has a bridge which provides access to karur.By this it also has railway path in Mayanoor. Nearest Railway Station is Mayanoor

The Zamindar Higher Secondary School located in the centre of the town, caters to students coming from as many as 50 villages and towns around Kattuputhur. It has a history dating back a hundred years.There lived a zamindar who was a land lord during British rule thus the village was famous in before times.Government higher secondary school is also famous.Santhosh vidhyalaya,Infant jesus were private schools located here.

The town has a Bus-stand, Police Station, Government Hospital, Library and banks like Lakshmi Vilas Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, Trichy District Central Co-Operative Bank, Kattuputhur Co-Operative Bank and the long awaited nationwide bank State Bank of India with ATM, the first one in this village providing ATM services.It has a well developed emergency facilities.

Kattuputhur is facilitated with block primary health centre located in the residential area. Well compounded beautiful health centre with round the clock delivery care system with three doctors. It looks beautiful with gardens, trees and siddha plants. It serves 500 patients approx. daily.

BSNL, Airtel, Aircel, Reliance, Vodafone,Tata docomo,Idea provide telecom services in the town.

This town is well-connected to the nearest towns like Trichy, Karur and Namakkal by government and private buses. Both Salem and Trichy are at almost equal distance.

Now Kattuputhur has been directly linked with Chennai by facilitating a bus from Kattuputhur to Chennai. Broadband services is now available at Kattuputhur, BSNL,Icenet is the broadband service provider.

Temples

Festivals

Sri Rama navami festival is celebrated with lot of enthusiasm in this village. Every year, Vasanthotsavam (Spring festival) is celebrated following the Sri Rama Navami typically during Apr-May. This is being celebrated for around last 5 decades, 2009 being the 47th year of celebrating Vasanthothsavam. This festival is celebrated for around 4 days starting from offerings to Lord Ganesh followed by wedding ceremony for Sri Ram and Devi Sita and concludes with a day full of festival dedicated for Sri Hanuman.

The interesting point about this festival is that it is fully sponsored by the locals of the town every year and many leading sampradaya bhajan artists visit the town during the festival. Zamindhar Higher Secondary school is one of the old and Prestigious school, there are many popular people like Namakkal kavinger was studied in the school. The school and the place was gifted by the Zamindhar kudumbam.