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| ?Attur Tamil Nadu • India |
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| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| Area • Elevation |
• 212 m (696 ft) |
| District(s) | Salem |
| Population | 58,150 (2001[update]) |
| Codes • Pincode • Telephone |
• 636 102 • +4282 |
| Website: www.salem.tn.nic.in/aprofile.htm | |
Coordinates: Attur is a town, municipality and capital of Attur Taluk in the Salem district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.
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The name of the town derives from the word "Aaru", meaning "river" - Vasishta Nadi (literally, Attur "the river town").
C.Lakshmana Nayakan (17th Century), local Palayakarar, built the fort. Gatti Mudalis built the temples inside the fort.
Attur is the main shopping center for the neighboring region. Attur region is principally an agricultural area. Attur is also famous for tapioca (cassava roots), and there are several tapioca-based industries today which manufacture products like "javvarisi" (sago) for markets all over India. It has many medicinal plant cultivars. Some of them are MGP (Coleus-medicinal plant), south India herbs (coleus).
Attur is one of the four places in India to produce hybrid seeds (Cotton, BT Cotton) on an Industrial scale. Attur town is underdeveloped for its potential, much to blame the law makers of that region and bad entrepreneurial spirit of the sago factory owners who don't want to invest in the town development fearing competition in wealth accumulation.
Attur is on NH 68. Attur is well connected with Salem on the west at 55 kilometers and Kallakuruchi on the east (north-east) at 45 kilometers on the Salem-Ulunderpet NH 68 which in turn connects to Chennai through arterial NH 45 at Ulunderpet and NH 47 (Salem-Kanyakumari via Coimbatore, Cochin, Trivandrum)at Salem with a number of bus routes.
Private buses are being operated between Attur and nearby towns/villages. TAMIL NADU State run corporation, formerly known as Anna Transport Corporation (ATC), in Salem district compete with private buses in that area.
Train services are also available between Attur to Salem, Attur to Virudhachalam and Salem-Chennai Egmore express train runs via Attur . The frequency of operation is very low; one on each direction in the morning and one in the evening. Pondicherry-Bangalore AC express train is expected to run shortly and runs via Attur.
Attur has many transport services including Southern Roadways Ltd (TVS), ABT, ARC and other daily transporters. In Attur, the TVS branch was run by Late Mr. K.R. Ramanathan Iyer, from 1950 till 1993. He was the agent since the inception of Southern Roadways. In spite of various transporters operating from Attur to Salem and other places, Southern Roadways Ltd has earned a good name in Attur by operating transport services not only in Tamil Nadu but entire southern states. This due to their sincere and prompt services as well as the hard working of Late Mr. K.R. Ramanathan. During his tenure, he earned a good name in Attur.
Attur is landlocked and depends on the Port of Chennai for most oceangoing freight.
Chennai International Airport handles cargo/passenger regional/international.
It is situated approximately 55 km to the east of Salem. The town has a fort in the banks of the Vasishta Nadi river which flows from the Kalrayan Hills (also Kalvarayan). Attur has a small dam across Vashistanadi river. It has an average elevation of 212 metres (695 feet).
As of the 2001 India census,1 Attur had a population of 58,150. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. 10% of the population is under 6 years of age. Attur has an average literacy rate of 68%, higher than the national average of 59.5%, with 55% of the males and 45% of females literate.
Attur assembly constituency is part of Rasipuram (Lok Sabha constituency).2
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