Perambur

Perambur (Tamil: பெரம்பூர்), officially known as Peramboor is a neighbourhood in the northern region of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is 4 km from the Chennai Central Railway Station.

Perambur

பெரம்பூர்

Peramboor
Neighborhood
Perambur
Perambur
Perambur
Coordinates: 13.10727°N 80.24448°E / 13.10727; 80.24448
CountryIndia
StateTamil Nadu
DistrictChennai
MetroChennai
Languages
 • OfficialTamil
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
600011
Vehicle registrationTN-05
Municipal bodyChennai Corporation
Ward Nos.51, 52, 53
LS constituencyChennai North
VS constituencyPeramboor
MPDr. Kalanidhi Veerasamy, DMK
MLAR.D. Sekar, DMK

In Tamil, pirambu means bamboo and ur means city or place. Before British rule, this place was widely regarded as a place which was a bamboo forest, around the Huzur Garden area, which currently houses the Simpsons Pvt. Ltd. This area was annexed to Chennai in 1742 AD.[1] On June 11, 2020, the Government of Tamil Nadu renamed Perambur to Peramboor, along with other neighbourhoods and towns of Tamil Nadu according to the pronunciations in the Tamil language.[2]

Perambur is a notable railway town in the Indian Railways landscape as it is home to the Vande Bharat Express, train coaches produced at the Integral Coach Factory located here and also the presence of Chennai Rail Museum;in addition to the railway station serving to decongest the Chennai Central Railway Station by serving as a major entrain / detrain point for most of the long-distance trains passing through or entering into the city from / to all over India. The Perambur railway station is considered as the oldest railway station in the city after Royapuram.[3]

During the 2015 floods , when most areas of Chennai were stranded in water, Perambur was the safest place notified in Chennai. The water level came down rapidly and the people had their normal lives restored much faster than the other places in Chennai.

Railways
Peramboor Railway Station with view of Peramboor Fly over

Peramboor is served by three railway stations: Peramboor, Peramboor Carriage Works and Peramboor Loco Works. It is one of the earliest British settlements in Chennai, mainly because of the railway establishments during the 1850s. Peramboor is noted for the largest presence of Anglo-Indians in Chennai (and arguably in South India) because of the erstwhile British settlements in and around Peramboor, during the construction and running of the Integral Coach Factory (ICF[4]). The ICF is located only in Peramboor with an ancillary unit in Kolkata in India. ICF, Chennai is also home to Vande Bharat Express also known as Train 18, the indigenously produced trainset of the Indian Railways. Peramboor also houses the Chennai Rail Museum which has a large collection of vintage coaches, engines and a railway coach themed restaurant.

Peramboor is one of the major railway hubs in Chennai because of ICF and due to express/super-fast trains stop. Peramboor is the fifth largest station in Chennai in passenger volume after Chennai Central, Chennai Egmore, Tambaram and Mambalam.

Entertainment

Peramboor has a wide range of entertainment venues such as cinemas and parks. Peramboor has the first shopping mall of the north Chennai: Spectrum Mall.

It has a five-screen multiplex named S2 Cinemas which is controlled by theater franchise SPI Cinemas. Sri Brinda Theatre (Sri Shanmuga Theatre & Ayyappa Theatre, are near Moolakadai) is popular among cinema lovers. Peramboor has many other cinema theatres such as Ganga Cinemas in Kolathur which is just 5 km away.

Peramboor has Chennai's first disco waterpark — Murasoli Maran Flyover park (Membaala Poongaa ) — which is crowded on weekends.

Stadium

Railway Stadium in Perambur is frequented for athletic events, annual sports meets and training sessions.

Neighbouring places

Peramboor serves as an important link between the northern mofussils of Chennai to the rest of the Greater Chennai. The neighbourhoods of Peramboor are: Kodungaiyur East (3.9 km), Kodungaiyur West (3.3 km), Sembium (2 km), Periyar Nagar (3 km), TVK Nagar (3 km), Kolathur (4 km), Villivakkam (5 km), Moolakadai (3 km), Madhavaram (5 km), Manali (8 km), Vyasarpadi (2 km) and Doveton or Purasaiwalkam (3 km), Ayanavaram (3 km), Ponniammanmedu (5 km), Vepery (3.5 km), Vinayagapuram (6 km), Chennai Central railway station (8 km), and Erukkancheri (3 km) Otteri (1.2 km) Ambattur (11 km) Agaram, Anna Nagar, Jamalia, Kellys, Kilpauk, Koyambedu, M.R.Nagar, Padi, Pattalam, Peravallur, Periamet, Pulianthope, Seeyalam ...

Streets and roads
Peramboor bus stand

Some of the major connecting roads and streets include Paper Mills Road, Peramboor High Road, Madhavaram High road and Siruvallur High Road. Apart from these, Peramboor also have a road named after Robert Baden-Powell,[5] the founder of Scout Movement. The road is well known as BP Road.

Murasoli Maran Flyover

The rail over bridge connecting Peramboor railway station with that Peramboor Carriage Works had been a source of transportation discomfort because of its narrow pass and low road which used to flood during rain. In 1999 the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) government decided to build a flyover along with nine others.

The work reached a halt when one of the columns started sinking. This led to the cost of the proposed flyover shoot from Rs.21 crore (210 million) to Rs 34 crore (340 million). Furthermore, DMK lost in the consecutive 2001 elections (although its ally Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) retained Peramboor constituency) which led to a further stalemate for the project.[6] The flyovers became the centre of political debacle for the next five years. After DMK came back to power in 2006, it started working on the project once again, but this time with an even more shooting up of the proposed cost.

The flyover serves the people living in Peramboor, Agaram, Kolathur, T.V.K. Nagar, Periyar Nagar, Kumaran Nagar, Pattalam, Jawahar Nagar, Ganesapuram, Kellys, Erukkancheri, Moolakkadai, Peravallur, Jamalia, Siruvallur, Otteri, Vyasarpadi, Ayanavaram, Vinayagapuram, Mathur, Madhavaram, Kodungaiyur and M.R. Nagar.

The flyover was constructed with different plan and was inaugurated by the then Chief Minister Mr.M. Karunanidhi and the then Deputy Chief Minister Mr. M.K.Stalin on 28 March 2010. The flyover serves to reduce the traffic congestion in and around North Chennai. It is 1.3 km in length and 13 meters high from the ground, and is one of the tallest bridges in Chennai after Kathipara, Guindy. The bridge consists of three levels, road below, rail in the middle and road again at the top.

Places of worship
'Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine' (Catholic Church), Peramboor was consecrated in the year 1900

Temples
  • Ayyappan Temple, Peramboor
  • Selva Vinaayagar Temple, Kumaaraswaamy St.
  • Thulukkaanaththu Amman Thirukkoil
  • Vinaayagar Koil
  • Lakshmi Amman Koil
  • Pazhani Aandavar Koil
  • Kalasaththamman koil
  • Muthu Maari Amman Koil
  • Ellaiamman Koil
  • Seemaaththamman koil
  • Shivaa Vishnu Koil
  • Shri Venkatesa Perumaal koil, B.B. road
  • Venugopaalan koil
  • Saaibaabaa koil
  • Shri Ravieeshwarar Koil, Vyasarpadi

( Shri Vyaasar Paadiya Sthalam .. means that this temple was notified by the saint Shri Vyaasar in his poetry .., Very Powerful Lord Shivaa )

  • Mani Sir Aashram
  • Lakshmi Amman Koil, M.T.H. Road
  • Shri Venugopaalaswaamy Temple, Venugopalaswamy street
  • Shri Kothandaramasamy temple, T.A. koil Street
  • Shri Chinthaamani Vinaayagar temple, near market, Maadhavaram High road
  • Shri Vaitheeshwaran temple, market street, Sembium
  • Shri Sundararaaja Perumaal temple, Agaram
  • Shri Chinthaamani Vinaayagar temple, Agaram
  • Shri Thaanthontri Amman temple, Agaram
  • Shri Naramuga Vinaayagar temple

Buddhist temple
  • South India Buddha Vihar, Bunder Garden

Masjid
  • Rahmaniya Jumma Masjid.
  • Hidaya Masjid.
  • Fidayene Masjid.
  • Dargah Masjid.

Churches

Mosques
  • Rahmania Masjid,Madhavaram High Road, Peramboor
  • Ansarul Islam Mosque, Tiruvallur St, Kennedy Square, Peramboor
  • Fidayane Masjid, Sembiyan, Peramboor
  • Masjid E Hussaini and Madarasa, Mohammaden St, Sembiyan, Peramboor
  • Tahniyat Mosque, SRP Koil St N, Peravallur, Peramboor
  • Masjid-e-Khalique, 3rd Circular St, Jawahar Nagar, Peramboor
  • Masjid Al-Huda, 19th St, Periyar Nagar West, Peramboor
  • Masjib E Rahmath, Kannivakkam, State Bank Colony, Peramboor
  • Hazrat Syed Husain Shah Khadiri Mosque, 10/15, Dimmaswamy Dargah Lane,near Venus park, Gopal Colony, Peramboor
  • Begum Shafia Mosque, Peramboor High Rd, Desia Colony, Jamalia, Peramboor
  • Jamalia Mosque and Arabic College,Peramboor High Rd, Desia Colony, Jamalia, Peramboor

Schools
  • Smt. Chandabai Pagariya Jain Matriculation Higher Secondary School
  • Kaligi Ranganathan Montford Matriculation Higher Secondary School
  • St. Mary's Matriculation Girls higher secondary school
  • St. Mary's Matriculation Boys higher secondary school
  • Chennai Corporation Higher Secondary School
  • Dharmamurthi Rao Bahadur Calavala Cunnan Chetty's (DRBCCC) Higher Secondary School
  • Veera Savarkar Netaji Matriculation School
  • Don Bosco Higher Secondary School
  • Don Bosco Nursery and Primary School which with Savio Primary School is on the premises of the 'Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes'
  • Gnanodhaya Vidhyalayam
  • Lourdes Girls Higher Secondary School
  • Railway Mixed Higher Secondary School, Jagannaathan Colony
  • Begum Latheefunnisa Islamic Nursery and Primary School
  • Sacred Heart's Nursery and Primary School
  • St. Joseph's Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School , ( Girls school ), Siruvallur High Road, Jagannaathan Colony
  • St. John's Nursery & Primary School, Siruvallur High Road, Jagannaathan Colony
  • CSI Holy Cross Nursery & Primary School, near Railway Stadium, Jagannaathan Colony
  • St. Thomas Primary School
  • Jamalia Higher Secondary School
  • SKNS PMC Vivekananda Vidyalaya
  • Voc Vidiyalaya Matriculation Higher Secondary School
  • Periyar matriculation higher secondary school
  • SRI BALA VIDYALAYA (CBSE SCHOOL)
  • KRM Public School (CBSE school)
  • Kaligi Ranganathan Montford Special School, Bharathi Road Second Street
  • Kaligi Ranganathan Montford Primary School, Bharathi Road Second Street
  • Everwin Vidhyashram (CBSE), Perambur High Road, Jamalia
  • Chennai Girls Higher Secondary School, School Road, Chinnaiyan Colony
  • Greater Chennai Corporation Middle School, Rangasaayee Street
  • Chennai Girls Higher Secondary School, Market Street, Amirthammaal Colony
  • Don Bosco Higher Secondary School, Maadhavaram High Road
  • Don Bosco Primary School, Maadhavaram High Road
  • Don Bosco Higher Secondary School, Peravallur
  • JaiGopal Garodia Higher Secondary School, S.R.P. Colony

Hospitals
  • Cure Advanced Dental Care®
  • Southern Railway Headquarters Hospital ( Ayanavaram )
  • Jupiter Surgical Specialty Centre
  • Abhijay Hospital ( Agaram )
  • Dr.A.C.Aruldas Hospital, Bunder Garden
  • Eswari Hospital
  • Srinivas Priya Hospital, Patel Road ( near Railway Station )
  • Aishwarya Hospital (child care)
  • Iyappa Diabetes Hospital
  • Vigneshwara Eye Hospital in Paddy field road
  • Apple Hospital near Sri Brinda Theatre
  • Sen Hospital, Bunder Garden
  • Government Peripheral Hospital, Periyar Nagar
  • Niranjana Hospital, G.K.M. Colony
  • N.R. Hospital, Agaram
  • Kamala ( Children's ) Hospital, T.V.K. Nagar
  • Sri Narayana Nursing Home, Bharathi road, near Bus Terminal
  • G.K. Hospital ( Siddha ), Agaram
  • Sri Bala Nursing Home, T.V.K. Nagar
  • St. Joseph Cluny Hospital, near Don Bosco Higher Secondary School, Peravalloor
  • Urban Primary Health Center near Ramana Nagar

Sub-neighborhoods
  • Thiru-Vi-Ka Nagar
  • Thala Colony
  • Periyar Nagar
  • S.R.P. Colony
  • Peravallur
  • Jawahar Nagar
  • Agaram
  • Ram Nagar
  • Ramana Nagar
  • Teeds Garden
  • Huzur Garden
  • Kennedy Square
  • Jaibhim Nagar
  • Madumaa Nagar
  • State Bank Colony
  • Vellaiyan Market
  • Wadia Nagar
  • Mettupalayam
  • Jamalia
  • Bunder Garden
  • Gopal Colony
  • Gopalapuram
  • Ramamurthy Colony
  • Chinnaiyan Colony
  • Kakanji Colony
  • Loco Scheme Colony
  • Vettri Nagar
  • Venus ( Sembium )
  • Kumaran Nagar
  • Peramboor Barracks
  • Integral Coach Factory
  • G.K.M. Colony
  • Mangalapuram
  • Southern Railway Quarters
  • Siruvallur
  • Sembium
  • Kolathur
  • B.B.Road
  • Neelam Garden
  • Jagannaathan Colony
  • Amirthammaal Colony
  • Jamunabai Nagar
  • Lakshmanan Nagar
  • Anjugam Nagar
  • Nattal Garden
  • Munusamy Nagar

Vegetarian Restaurants / Desserts

  • Adyar Ananda Bhavan , opposite of Railway station ,
  • Adyar Ananda Bhavan , Siruvallur High Road ,
  • Perambur Sri Srinivasa Sweets and Snacks , opposite of Railway station ,
  • Perambur Sri Srinivasa Sweets and Snacks , Maadhavaram High Road ,
  • Perambur Sri Srinivasa Sweets and Snacks , Paper Mills Road ,
  • Murugan Idli Shop ( M I S ) ,
  • Sangeetha Vegetarian Restaurant ,
  • Sindhu Bhavan ,
  • Muthamizh A/C Restaurant ,
  • Sri Balaji Woodlands Vegetarian Restaurant ,
  • Everest Cake House ,
  • Everest Bakery ,
  • Everest Bakers point ,
  • Ajantha Bakers and Sweets Pvt. Ltd., Paper Mills Road ,
  • Ajantha Bakers and Sweets Pvt. Ltd., Siruvallur High Road ,
  • McRennett ( Cake shop ) ,
  • Sri Ganga Sweets and Snacks ,
  • Barani Home mades ( Sweets and Savouries ) .

Location

References
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  2. "Vellore now Veeloor: TN changes names of 1,018 places so you pronounce them the Tamil way". The Print. 12 June 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  3. Madhavan, D. (3 April 2013). "Peramboor railway station to get more entrances, shelters, lights". Chennai. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  4. "Integral Coach Factory". icf.indianrailways.gov.in. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
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