About Melapunjai Village

Melapunjai is a mid sized village in Chengam tehsil, in the district of Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,641, made up of 808 males and 833 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,031 females per 1000 males. The village covers 416.88 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 606704, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Melapunjai compares

By the 2011 count Melapunjai is the 65th largest of the 116 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 2,109 residents. Its 416.88 hectares work out to about 3.9 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 964.

Getting to Melapunjai

Melapunjai is well connected by rural standards, with buses in the village itself and a railway station close by. The census records public bus service for Melapunjai 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 25 km distance. The nearest villages by name are Madanai Rf, Manandipatti, Manikkal and Manmalai. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

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.