About Melamelanilai Village

Melamelanilai is a mid sized village in Ponnamaravathi tehsil, in the district of Pudukkottai, Tamil Nadu. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,098, made up of 508 males and 590 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,161 females per 1000 males. The village covers 612.99 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 622401, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

Melamelanilai Overview

Census 2011 figures for Melamelanilai village
Description	Value
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Pudukkottai
Tehsil	Ponnamaravathi
Pincode	622401
Area (hectares)	612.99 hectares
Population	1,098
Male Population	508
Female Population	590
Sex Ratio (females per 1000 males)	1,161
Bus Service (public)	Available within village
Bus Service (private)	Available within village
Nearest Railway Station	Available within 10+ km distance

How Melamelanilai compares

By the 2011 count Melamelanilai is the 28th largest of the 49 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well below average, where the typical village holds 1,955 residents. Its 612.99 hectares work out to about 1.8 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 1027.

Getting to Melamelanilai

Melamelanilai is served by buses within the village, though the nearest railway station is further out. The census records public bus service for Melamelanilai as Available within village. Private bus service is recorded as Available within village. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within 10+ km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Melamelanilai from other places

Melamelanilai lies about 25 km from Pudukkottai, and the nearest railway station is Tirumayam, about 18 km away. The figures below are straight-line distances from the village to each place. A road journey is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again.

Distances from Melamelanilai
Nearest railway station	Tirumayam	18 km
Tehsil headquarters	Ponnamaravathi	25 km
District headquarters	Pudukkottai	25 km

Villages closest to Melamelanilai

These are the nearest recorded villages by distance rather than by name, all of them in Ponnamaravathi tehsil.

Source: Census of India 2011, the most recent completed census. Figures have not been revised since collection. Read more on our about the data page.

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Common questions about Melamelanilai

As per the Census of India 2011, Melamelanilai village had a population of 1,098. That makes it the 28th largest of the 49 villages in the tehsil, well below average for the tehsil, where the typical village holds 1,955 residents.

Melamelanilai village has 508 males and 590 females as recorded in the 2011 census.

Working from the 2011 counts, Melamelanilai has about 1161 females for every 1000 males. In short, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 1027.

The pincode recorded for Melamelanilai is 622401. Large villages sometimes share a pincode with neighbouring settlements.

Melamelanilai covers 612.99 hectares as recorded in the census. Against its 2011 population that is roughly 1.8 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited.

Melamelanilai falls under Ponnamaravathi tehsil of Pudukkottai district in Tamil Nadu.

The nearest railway station to Melamelanilai is Tirumayam, about 18 km away in a straight line. The 2011 census recorded it as available within 10+ km distance.

The census records public bus service as Available within village and private bus service as Available within village for Melamelanilai.

Melamelanilai is about 25 km from Pudukkottai in a straight line. Road distance is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again, depending on the route.

Melamelanilai is in Ponnamaravathi tehsil of Pudukkottai district. Tirumayam is about 18 km away. Ponnamaravathi is about 25 km away. Pudukkottai is about 25 km away. Straight-line distances are a guide to how far out the village sits, not a driving figure.