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Chettiyakottai ( செட்டியகோட்டை )  is a small Village/hamlet in Thiruvadanai Block in Ramanathapuram District of Tamil Nadu State, India. It comes under Kavanakottai Panchayath. It is located 41 KM towards North from District head quarters Ramanathapuram. 475 KM from State capital Chennai

Chettiyakottai is surrounded by RSMangalaml Block towards South, Tiruvadanai Block towards North , Ilayankudi Block towards west , Devakottai Block towards North.

Ramanathapuram, Paramakudi , Karaikudi , Sivaganga,Devakottai are the near by Cities to Chettiyakottai.

It is near to bay of bengal. There is a chance of humidity in the weather.

Demographics of Chettiyakottai

Tamil is the Local Language here. Chettiyakottai kanmai is the largest water storage  in the Kavanakottai panchayath.

Agriculture is Backbone of this town.People are depend with it.Nowadays the annual rain is not proper by its volume.

NH 210 Passes through this village (Trichy to Rameswaram).More number of vehicles passes this highway to Rameswaram from Northern India.

Festivals
The most famous festival of chettiyakottai is Sri Tharmar, Throvpathi Amman Temple festival during shivan rathri time and sri jegamuthumariyamman thiruvizha. It is conducted by chettiyakottai villages. The festival is celebrated for more than 10 days. The highlight of the festival is Thiruvizhakku Pooja and Poomithi and Amman oorvalam,manjuvirattu At the end, Pookkuli festival is celebrated with the whole neighbor villages

Politics in Chettiyakottai

NTK(Naam Tamilar),DMDK, DMK , AIADMK ,Amma MakkalMunnetra Kazhagam, TMC(M) , INC are the major political parties in this area.

Travel

The nearest airports are Madurai Airport and Tiruchirappalli International Airport while the largest towns in the area are Karaikudi, Devakottai and Ramanathapuram. Trains that run from Chennai to Rameshwaram stop at  Karaikudi, Devakottai and sivagangai. There are also frequent town buses from Thiruvadanai to kokkurani and Trichy to rameshwaram

Reference

http://wikimapia.org/32832601/Chettiyakottai

http://wikimapia.org/32897225/chettiyakottai-kanmai

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MuthuSelvam Chandrasekar