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20:14, 10 February 2007 (UTC)20:14, 10 February 2007 (UTC)||||||| TIRUPATTUR (THUSARANYAM) |||||||20:14, 10 February 2007 (UTC)20:14, 10 February 2007 (UTC)20:14, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Tirupattur is a town located about 7 km from the Jolarpet Railway Junction in Vellore District, Tamil Nadu, India. The town has mainly small scale industries and mills. Tirupattur can be best discribed as a Satellite Town, in which people reside and go to work in nearby industrial towns such as Vaniyambadi and Ambur in the north. It is well connected by road and rail to other important cities of Tamil Nadu such as Chennai and Salem, and Vellore and Bangalore in Karnataka. It is also known as the "Sandalwood Town" due to the abundant availability of sandalwood trees in the surrounding hills. It is very close to the 4th hill station of Tamil Nadu, the Yelagiri Hills, which is also known as the Poor man's Ooty.

There is another small hill station to the east of Tirupattur (about 35 km) known as Jawadi Hills. In the middle of this hill lies the Kavalur Observatory, which has several optical and reflective telescopes run and governed by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics. There is also a small seasonal stream falls some 10 km east of Tirupattur, known as Jalagamparai.

The name Tirupattur in English means a group of ten villages/small towns. It is surrounded by several of these villages, making Tirupattur a Taluk. Tirupattur's population and land area are good enough to have political representations in the state legislature of Tamil Nadu (Member of the Legislative Assembly), as well as in the central/federal legislature of India (Member of Parliament).

The autonomous arts and science institution, Sacred Heart College, known for its well-disciplined academic and curricular standards, is located in Tirupattur. Other education institutions include Sri Nandhanam College of Engineering & Technology. The town is also blessed with a dozen affordable and good private schools. There are some famous school chains among them such as the Don Bosco Matriculation Hr. Sec. School, Lions Matriculation Hr. Sec. School and the Mary Immaculate Convent.

Tirupattur also has local chapters of several service, social and community groups and organizations such as the Lions Club of India, The