Vembadithalam

Overview

This village has one government primary school, a government higher secondary school and a government hospital with decent space and buildings. The schools and Hospital are very good in facilities when compared to surrounding villages. It has very small public library and had very good movie hall but it was closed few years ago because of some financial reason.

Now the Vembadithalam Primary School (Elementary School, from 1st Standard Class to 5th Class) infrastructure is in pathetic picture of neglect and utter lack of basic facilities by officials and the big people of Vembadithalam. Please visit the school to understand the situation. This shows the domination of matriculation and private schools. The little students here are from underprivileged category. A personal visit to the school shown that these students are very brilliant and willing to learn and excel in their studies. The Primary School seriously needs help from all the ends like old students of the school, businessmen, officials etc.

While Higher Secondary School getting financial help from all the ends like few engineering colleges, polytechnic and businessmen for their personal benefit but Vembadithalam Primary School(Elementary School) does not get any help.

Culture

Textile is most important business. Mostly Devanga Chettiar community people doing the textile business or they shown the way to other community people to follow the textile business. On every week of Tuesday weaver gets weekly wages and they will do their purchases in nearby weekly market. Sowdeswari Amman temple, Marriamman and Kaliamman temple, Subramanya swamy temple and Perumal Kovil (temple) and Kasi vishwanatha temple are major temples. Sowdeswari Amman festival, Marriamman and Kaliamman festivals are celebrated every year without fail. Whole village get the new color on those festival days. Sowdeswari Amman festival is celebrated in the month of January (Tamil month of Thai). The people belong to Kannada Devanga Chettiar family celebrate this Sowdeswari Amman festival and it is a 3- to 4-day festival having lots of activities like Knife dance (Kathi Dance), Sakthi, Jyothi etc. Of course there will be lots of funs too like Orchestra (both classical and western) and drama etc. Marriamman and Kaliamman festival celebrated every year in the Tamil month of 'Panguni'. It is also a 2- to 3-day festival, there will be activities like Thee Gundam (walking on fire), pongal (making sweet food for Amman) and vandi vedikkai (show of decorated vehicles or bulluck carts with some themes) in the evening of last day.

At Vembadithalam, the first initiative of Siddharism and Pathinen Siddhar's Indhu Vedam practices for Merkku Mandalam was started in 1981 by Mr R J Venkatramanan and family and the "Mukambigai Alayam" was started by his father Mr A.K.R Jegannathan in their land closer to the lake. Subsequently from this initiatives and blessing of Pathinen siddhar madam and His Holliness Gurdevar and with involvement of many siddharadiyans of Vembadithalam, it had a unique recognition of having the Padhinon Siddhar " Tharu Kulam" which was built through the co-ordinated efforts of Vembadithalam Siddhar Addiyaans, Mr R J Venkatramanan, Mr T.R.Ramalingam, Mr Venkatesan, Mr Srinivasan, Mr Vijayragavan, Mr Mani, Mr L.K. Ganesan and other supporters, it was blessed and spiritualized by His Holiness Gnaalaguru Siddhar Arasayogi Karuwooraar, 12th Pathinen Siddhar Peedaathipathi.During the year 1985 His Holiness Gurudevar visited vembadithalam for the 2nd time and had a Public meeting. Subsequently, with the blessings of His Holiness Gurudevar and the hard efforts of Venkatesan, Mani & Others Pathinen Siddhar Peedam- Tharukulam was started in the own place. From the very inception of Tharukulam Oma, Oga, yaga, Yagna, Velvi poosais were performed there by the Siddharadiyans.

The famous playback singer Krishnaraj (Vellarika.. Vellarika from Kadhal Kottai & Thanjavooru man eduthu from Porkaalam films fame) was born and brought up in Vembadithalam.

Current Business

The early business in vembadithalam started with handlooms and weavers were getting yarns from Salem and woven it. Then slowly started their own business and nowadays cotton clothes manufacturing, especially silk sarees are being manufactured and bulkly distributed throughout India.

Facilities

Tamil Nadu’s first rural telephone exchange opened in Vembadithalam. Mr. Chandra sekaran has worked as a first in charge of that. It happened because of two weavers from this village; they were persons who weaved the polyester with handloom and show the new market for polyester yarn. Their name is Mr. KMS Rangasamy Chettiar and Mr. KMS Mari Chettiar respectively. Then Tamil Nadu governor VV Giri came to village to honour them. These two legend helped the village to have decent Govt hospital, Govt Primary school and a very good & well maintained Govt Higher Secondary School. Students from surrounding villages like Rakkipatti, Seeragapady, elampillai, vaikuntham, Sankakiri, Attayampatti, Vennandhur all are coming to this Government Higher Secondary School to pursue their study. This Government Higher Secondary School is well equipped with all Physics Lab, Chemistry Lab, Computer Labs and a wide eco-friendly playground. The one good thing about this school is whenever teacher transfer counselling happen, teachers are literally willing to come to this school to serve their entire service & Scholl celebrated its golden jubilee years Today 25.01.2014.

It is known fact that Mr. Dhanasekaran belonging to this village had first started the yarn business years ago. Then the yarn business spread over to nearby villages elambillai, perumagoundan patti and attayampatti. But it's a question mark whether he is doing the yarn business actively nowadays.

Schools

1. Government Higher Secondary School was built by the then landlord Rangasamy Chettiar inaugurated by the then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu , Dr. MGR ; Address : NH -47; Sankari Main rd; Kakapalayam; Vembadithalam.

2. Lotus higher secondary school Address : NH -47; Sankari Main rd; Kakapalayam; Vembadithalam.

Colleges

1. Maisurii Polytechnic College Address : NH -47; Sankari Main rd; Kakapalayam; Vembadithalam.

2. Knowledge Institute of Technology Address : NH -47; Sankari Main rd; Kakapalayam; Vembadithalam.

3. Knowledge Business School Address : NH -47; Sankari Main rd; Kakapalayam; Vembadithalam.

4. RKKN School of Management Address : NH -47; Sankari Main rd; Kakapalayam; Vembadithalam.

Banks

1. CORPORATION BANK, VEMBADITHALAM IFSC CODE : corp0000243. MICR CODE : 636017005.

2. Vembadithalam Agriculture Co-operative Bank.. Main road, Vembadithalam.

Hospital

1. Government hospital, Vembadithalam, Salem.

2. Chitra Kannan Hospital, Address : NH-47; Sankari Main rd; Kakapalayam; vembadithalam.

Political Facts

This village comes under Veerapandi political constituency and the famous Late.Veerapandi S Arumugam (affectionately called as Veerapaandiar) was from this constituency only. His son Veerapandi A. Raja was the former MLA for this constituency. Mr. S.V Varadharajan Ex. MLA (Salem-1)& All world MGR mantra state leader, who is from this village & his son also is very famous doctor.(Dr. V.Gopalakrishnan)and his younger son V.Dhanapal, former vice president of Vembadithalam is a well known person in this area . Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Palanisamy serverd as a minister when elected from this constituency.