Vadaseri South
| Vadaseri (Thanjavur) | |
|---|---|
| village | |
| Country |
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| State | Tamil Nadu |
| District | Thanjavur |
| Taluk | Orathanadu |
| Government | |
| • Panchayat President | ---.--- office suspended due to postponed elections |
| Population (2001) | |
| • Total | 706 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Tamil |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
Vadaseri South is a village in the Orathanadu taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India.
Demographics
Vadaseri is a small agricultural village in Thanjavur District, the food grain and temple district of Tamil Nadu, India. Vadaseri is located about 35 km, South-East of Thanjavur. It has a population of about 10,000, majority of them are engaged in agricultural activities. Most of the population belongs to the Agamudaiyar-Thevar Community who maintain strong cultural and social bindings.
Muslims families also lives in vadasery, they will give more preferences to Tamil than Hindi or Urdu, it shows there nativity and lovingness on tamilnadu.
In recent times, most of the natives of Vadaseri have migrated to various parts of India and abroad to improve their educational and economical status. They are in business as well as in employment with Government and private sectors.
This website is developed primarily to help the relatives maintain the same cultural and social bindings while being located outside of their native. This helps the Vadaseri community people across the world to stay online and have access to the updated information about their people.
Location
About 35 KM south east of Thanjavur Town. About 14KM east of Orathanadu. About 15KM south of Mannargudi and about 16 KM north of Pattukkottai. It lies on the RajaMannargudi (Mannargudi) - Pattukkottai main road (in official records, it is also known as Mannargudi - Rameswaram Saalai)
Area
About 3 KM radius.
Population
Vadaseri has a population of about 10000. There are about 10 different community people, including Muslims and Christians. Major community is Agamudyar Thevar. About 70% of the old generations are literate and younger generations are 100% educated. Its quite encouraging to note that in the past 15/20 years lot of engineers, doctors, advocates, arts and science graduates, PhDs are emerging from vadaseri relatives.
Administration
Vadaseri comes under Orathanadu Taluk and Thanjavur district. It is now a major Panchayat category with maximum revenue generating village under Orathanadu Taluk. It is governed locally by the elected Panchayat President and board members. Also there are two government-appointed Village Administrative Officers (VAO).
Schools
There are two govt. elementary schools and one higher secondary school serving the vadaseri and surrounding villages.
Library
There are two libraries at Vadaseri. One Government District Branch Library functioning near Panchayat Office in its own building. There is another small library called Thiru.Vi.Ka Library situated at the junction of North Street and Thanjavur road.
Hospitals
There is a Govt. Dispensary in Primary Health Center grade. Apart from this, many doctors - MBBS, RIMP,LIMP qualified and experienced are running clinics.
Veterinary Hospital
There is one veterinary hospital
Cooperative Society
There is a co-op society and bank at vadaseri serving vadaseri and neighboring villages.
Banks
Indian Bank is having a branch at vadaseri, since 1970.
Post Office
There is a post and telegraph office with a sub-post master.
Telephone Facility
There is an Electronic Telephone Sub-Exchange directly under the control of Orathanadu Main Telephone Exchange, serving vadaseri and neighboring villages. There are many private public STD/ISD/PCOs functioning at vadaseri.
Mobile Telephone Facility
Government-owned BSNL, private operators have put up their towers at Vadaseri and established connectivity with rest of the world.
EB Substation
Due to heavy demand with about 500 bore wells in and around vadaseri, recently the EB Department has installed one sub station at Vadaseri. Because of this, the voltage problems are eliminated at vadaseri.
Temples
There are many temples within Vadaseri. The primary temple is the recently re-constructed Sri Kamatchi Amman with Sri Sivan temple complex.
Recreation
There is one touring (semi permanent) cinema theatre functioning for the past 3 years.
Book on Vadaseri History
Theetha. C. Natesan alias Choolai Natesan and Kurunatha. Pey. Ramyan alias Kuberaa have published books on Vadaseri History individually.
References
- "Primary Census Abstract - Census 2001". Directorate of Census Operations-Tamil Nadu. Archived from the original on 2009-08-29. Retrieved 2009-08-29.