Vaikuntham

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Vaikuntham
Neighborhood
CountryFlag of India.svg  India
State Tamil Nadu
District Salem
Area
[1] [2]
 • Total5 km2 (2 sq mi)
Population
 • Total50,000
 • Density10,000/km2 (26,000/sq mi)
Languages
 • Official Tamil
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)
Vehicle registration TN 27
No Coastline0 kilometres (0 mi)

Vaikuntham is a neighborhood in Sankagiri taluk, Salem district, India. Vaikuntham is located near to Salem on NH 47 (Salem to Coimbatore). There is a Toll Plaza located near Vaikuntham.

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Facilities

Vaikuntham has a bank, school, telephone exchange, post office, Aavin milk booth, and Santhai (vegetable market) on every Tuesday where local farmers gather and sell their vegetables and goods.

Worshipping

Temple

Selli Amman Temple

The Selli Amman (Sellandiyamman) Temple is a well known and famous temple around in this village. Every year in the month of November, four days festival at this temple is being conducted. All native villagers across the states in India gather with their family members and enjoy the festival. Typical folk dances, bull embracing, Oyilaattam, Giant wheel, etc will be present in the temple ground for peoples amusement.

Church

Bethel Blessing church (that which is beside of Saravana Bhavan Hotel) is a non-denominational, evangelical church founded in 1970s. Speaker Isaac is the Senior Pastor of Bethel Blessing church. Having Every Sunday church service at 10am.

Subneighborhood

Kaali Patti privu

Kaali Patti Privu is a sub village of Vaikuntham. Here is a hospital, village administrative office and EB office.

Farmers weekly market

Every Tuesdays farmers conduct a one day market in vaikuntham where nearby people gather and purchase and sell the vegetables and goods.

Bank and ATM

Here government agriculture loan bank, Canara bank [3] are available with safety locker option. ATM facility is available at the bank.

Transportation

Vaikuntham and Kali patti pirivu have 24-hour bus transportation. Every half an hour it has bus transportation to Salem, Sankgiri, Erode, Bavani.

Educational institutions

Vaikuntham has a government higher secondary school and Amman matriculation school.

Hospital

Nearby located is a government primary clinic; Muthusamy clinic.

People and occupations

Occupations of villagers are mostly agriculture, rope making and textile. The famous food chain "Saravana Bhavan" hotel is located on the side of NH-47.

Business

The village is famous for supplying mangoes all over the place. It has mango mandis on roadside and the famous online mango seller named "Salem Mango" [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "SALEM DISTRICT - SANKARI TALUK - REVENUE VILLAGES - NAME LIST" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2018.
  2. ↑ "Macdonald s Choultry Block - Panchayat Villages". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "IFSC Code for Canara Bank Vaikuntham". Archived from the original on 27 June 2020.
  4. ↑ "Bethel Blessing church".


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