Talk:Thoothukudi

Removal of Thoothukudi District information
I found that most of the data/info that are related to Thoothukudi District being added to this page, which is meant for Thoothukudi City; so I moved them to the District's Wikipedia page.

Please add information related to Thoothukudi City in this page, add all Thoothukudi District information at it's  own page. --Delivi (talk) 13:51, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Restructuring
I am restructuring the page. hence there will be few hitches. Please bear with this and note that this is not vandalism. Since I have a very slow, unreliable connection, I may not be able to complete the work and is at the mercy of the internet connection to complete a para I have startedDoctor Bruno 16:34, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Ayyavazhi
Can some one throw more light on the issue of Ayyavazhi being added and removed again and again Doctor Bruno 17:54, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
 * User:Vaikunda Raja is the one who keeps adding info on Ayyavazhi to every article related Tamil or Hinduism. My paternal native place is Ettayapuram and maternal native place is Thoothukudi and have relatives spread acros Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi districts. In my 25 years, I've never even heard of a religion called Ayyavazhi. So much for notability. If anything, it could be a belief system with localised following. I would disagree if it were to be claimed as a full-fledged religion. Someone even claimed that it has a following of 0.12% of the Indian population implying 12 lakh followers. Seriously, all this is hard to believe without solid references. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 03:50, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I have so far seen one person (a shop keeper in a village called Puthiamputhur in Ottapidaram Taluk in Thoothukudi District) who is a follower of Ayyavazhi religion. They have a local festival every year at some place near Kanyakumari. And I do not think that there are a lot of people associated with that. Doctor Bruno 17:23, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

From this year the Vaikunda Avataram, (March 4th, 20th of Tamil month Masi) was announced as a Holiday for the districts of Tirunelveli and Tuticorin and already a leave for Kanyakumari dist. Is this possible without a reasonable number of followers across these areas. But surprisingly, one thing is pity that this belief system was unknown to the outer world so far, and still out side wikipedia. - Vaikunda Raja 21:11, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, interesting. Are you sure, they recognised it as a separate religion? Because, I've known about local holidays for Memaruvattur Athi Parasakthi-related festivals in other parts of the state. Anyway, I give you the benefit of doubt. But, you have to read Cite sources, No original research, WP:NPOV etc., to understand wikipedia's policy. Because, you've said that unfortunately, "it's not known outside wikipedia." This is not acceptable as Wikipedia is not a primary source of information. Being an encyclopedia, it's a tertiary source. It's upto you to act accordingly. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 03:55, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
 * It was not still recognised as a seperate religion but sure that holidays announced for the three districts. thats all. - Vaikunda Raja

Citation
The district administration of Tirunelveli has announced local holiday on March 4 in view of the birth anniversary of `Ayya Vaikunda Swamy.' A statement said all government establishments and schools would remain closed. However, banks would function normally and sub-treasuries would be working with minimum workforce. To compensate this holiday, government establishments would function on May 13.  As a gazetted government officer, now working in Thoothukudi District, I can tell you that there was a Local Holiday in Thoothukudi District on that occassion (though the Hindu citation only talks about Tirunelveli District. This is for your information. Remember that even I was initially skeptical about this few months ago. of late I have learned that just because I do not know something it does not mean that it does not exist Doctor Bruno 17:39, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

My opinion
In my opinion, It does not matter whether they need to recognize this as a seperate religion or not. The point of contention was whether "Thoothukudi district is one of the districts with Ayyavazhi followers". And now it seems that at least the local administration (District Collectorate) acknowledges this fact and hence declares a local holiday like what we have for Nellaiappar Car festival, Panguni Uttiram, Vaiksai Vishakam, and the Feast of Lady of Snows (matha thirunaal) in Thoothukudi. Hence I feel that it is right to add the sentence that "Thoothukudi district is one of the districts with Ayyavazhi followers" Can I have the opinion of others


 * It was not of the mistake of User Sundar or others who told that there (in Toothukkudi) is no such religion at all, but one or two. There were many reasons for that. They will remain hard to be identified. See Ayyavazhi. And in the matter of citation I think you are right - Vaikunda Raja 18:08, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Civic Administration
I put back the section Civic Administration, it was removed without a comment as to why. It messes up the layout of the page, and that should be fixed. Don't know the formatting magic to make this happen. Maybe it doesn't belong, but that's hard to tell without a reason why it should go. Meaningful Username 10:01, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Salt production
Tamilnadu's share of salt is only 14% of national production, and how can Tuticorin produce 30% of India? Gujarat is 71% and Rajastan is 9% and the rest of the states is 4%. I will delete that, if nobody objects. mlpkr (talk) 07:55, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Thoothukudi district constitutes 70% of the total salt production of the Tamilnadu state and meets 30% requirement of our country. Refer http://www.cii.in/region_content.php?menu_id=454&region_id=2, this is an official source. Delivi (talk) 14:50, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Pazhaya Kayal
In 1847 this place is port city of Korkai, A.Velmurugan  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.68.67.131 (talk) 10:48, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Palaya Kayal
The Palayakayal plant will have a capacity to produce 500 tonnes of zirconium oxide and 250 tonnes of zirconium sponge per annum

Velmurugan Ayyampandi, Pazhaiyakayal —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.68.65.44 (talk) 14:26, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

List of Ongoing projects in Tuticorin
I have added this new section. I have added all the references — Preceding unsigned comment added by Preethan87 (talk • contribs) 19:20, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for adding references in your latest attempt regarding insertion of this information. However, most of the list comprised proposals and it is very common for proposals not to come to fruition, especially when they relate to big infrastructure projects - this has been seen time and again across Indian cities and doubtless applies elsewhere in the world also. We have a policy - WP:CRYSTAL - that I think we need to follow in the case of all proposals relating to Thoothukudi infrastructure work. Furthermore, some of the items seemed to relate to the district rather than the city. And I am really not sure what the point of the list is meant to be: all cities are continually improving their infrastructure (well, perhaps not Detroit but practically everywhere else). The level of detail seems to be excessive and even vaguely promotional. - Sitush (talk) 19:46, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
 * The in progress infra items can be kept off. Preethan87 - I think i pinged regarding the same earlier. As Sitush pointed out, some of the added contents are district related and others are promotional. Ssriram mt (talk) 23:09, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Sitush you'd be happy, Dan's turning Detroit around. Peeped in to see whether I could be of help. Yogesh Khandke (talk) 15:21, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Life Time Achievements
This is one in lifetime achievement by a student from V.O.C. College

Cadet Anand Jeba Prakash of 29 (TN) Indep Coy NCC Tuticorin has been selected for YEP at Singapore. He will be reporting for same at New Delhi on 24 Nov



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Remove 2001 census data and update with 2011 census data
Please remove the 2001 census data. I could see a lot of data relevant to 2001 census. It might mislead anyone. We have 2011 census and we can very well update it. I am happy to help if you allow me to edit — Preceding unsigned comment added by Preethan87 (talk • contribs) 05:00, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
 * The provisional totals are out, but not the actuals. There is a plan to plug in from wikidata, which i will do gradually. The http://www.census2011.co.in/ site is not a reliable one.Ssriram mt (talk) 12:14, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Literacy
I have corrected the literacy rate (Earlier it was modified by someone). Please don't modify it further. I have pasted the reference too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Preethan87 (talk • contribs) 06:06, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

I have uploaded the recent data according to 2011 census and i have provided reference for each addition.I have added some points in Economy section.Please have a look at it before editing or deleting it.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.193.140.38 (talk) 10:06, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi, the acutal census data is avaialble from the census of India government website - please do not quote the other unreliable websites as source. Also urban agglomeration totals is different from city totals and it should be mentioned separately.Ssriram mt (talk) 13:05, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Demographics
Can somebody clarify with the exac demographic data ?? Thoothukkudi religious census of 2011 (-mentioned in the page) differs a lot from the Indian census 2011 data, (http://www.census2011.co.in/census/district/49-thoothukkudi.html). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Citsamraj (talk • contribs) 08:59, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

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Thoothukudi Sterlite Massacre 2018 : Have removed this. Need to be checked, edited and then can be included in the article
Thoothukudi, A port city in southern India's Tamil Nadu state remains tense after protests erupted in violence that left at least 13 people dead. Protests against the Sterlite Copper subsidiary of the Vedanta Resources have been going on for months in Tuticorin. Residents say a copper smelter is causing environmental damage. . Amid Anti-Sterlite protests, Vedanta chief Anil Agarwal says company wants to restart operations with community and law support.

--Praveenskpillai (talk) 17:44, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi, fellow wikians, I feel the section of Environmental issues needs to be added and hence this post. Have given necessary references and links. Thanks Muthunagarajan1 (talk) 08:19, 5 October 2018 (UTC) muthunagarajan1

Environmental Issues
Air Pollution is the major Environmental challenge faced by Thoothukudi while water and noise pollution are environmental issues too. Thoothukudi is the only city from the state of Tamil Nadu to be listed as one of the Non-attainment cities by Ministry of Environment primarily on the basis of excess PM10 under the National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Program (NAMP) for the period 2011 - 2015.

The city has a lot of red industries as a result of which the PM10 — tiny airborne particles seven times finer than human hair–exceeds national standards (60 micrograms per cubic metre, or µg/m³) by around 200 per cent. It is also to be noted that Indian Standards for PM10 is three times higher than WHO standards for PM10 particles which is 20 micrograms per cubic metre. Environmentalists blame public and private coal-fired thermal power plants, copper smelter and chemical industries for polluting the air quality of Thoothukudi.

A 2010 study published in the Journal of Ecobiotechnology cites Industrial pollution in Thoothukudi as a major cause for various health issues. Respondents of the study had various health issues like skin diseases, eye irritation, Asthma, Allergy,Respiratory problems, Cancer & Hypertension. . The study also observed that Industrial disposals and other chemical contaminates that enter waterways through agricultural runoff, storm water drains, and industrial discharges may persist in the environment for long periods and be transported by water or air over long distances. They disturbed the function of the endocrine system, resulting in reproductive, developmental, and behavioral problems. The endocrine disrupters reduced the fertility and increased the occurrence of still births, birth defects, and hormonally dependent Cancers such as breast, testicular, and prostate cancers. The effects on the developing nervous system can include impaired mental and psychomotor development, as well as cognitive impairment and behavior abnormalities and pharmaceuticals such as antibiotics and synthetic sex hormones from contraceptives. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Muthunagarajan1 (talk • contribs) 08:09, 5 October 2018 (UTC)