Talk:Chinnathurai

CHINNATHURAI     India the peninsular country is having a 7500 km long coastline. In that, Chinnathurai, a small fishing village in Kanyakumari District of Tamil Nadu, may look like a dot. But it is standing tall among other fishing villages by helping our country to earn a lot of foreign exchange. The people in the village are professionals in catching sharks and large fishes. And also now many of its own people spread across the world in different fields ranging from software to management to engineering.

History

Formation of the Village

Chinnathurai as a village it was officially formed in the 1970s. Earlier it was a part of Thoothoorthurai which was a collective village of three villages namely Thoothoor, Chinnathurai and Eraviputhenthurai. The places near to the river or sea are called Thurai in Tamil which means ‘a place where people can get closer to the shore and also can do their loading and unloading from the boats’. Since Thoothoorthurai is on the shore of the Arabian Sea, it also attached ‘thurai’ on its name. Thoothoorthurai was actually a fishing village and it served as a small port in the Kingdome of Thiruavncore. The people were also trained in warfare and the king used them to guard the sea shore. In Thoothoorthurai the area of Chinnathurai was the main place for most of the village activities. Eraviputhenthurai got separated from Thoothoorthurai and formed as a separate village. During this time, Thoothoorthurai got transformed into Thoothoor because of the difficulty in pronouncing the name. In the 1970s, as the population grown, Chinnathurai also got separated from Thoothoorthurai. Since then the plan for the Church was drawn, because the Church was centre of administarion. St. Jude was made patron saint for the village. The Church in Chinnathurai was inaugurated in 1990. What ever the structures you see in this village are built by the village people on their own money. This village is really a self contained village

Geography

Population Distribution

Places of interest

Local Economy

Education

Literacy rate here is 97%. Its a role model village in indian subcontinent with such a good literecy rate.

Politics

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Abram Shen (talk) 08:57, 18 December 2009 (UTC)