Vaikuntham

Vaikuntham is a village community in Sankagiri taluk, Salem district, India.vaikuntham is located near to Salem on NH 47 (Salem to Coimbatore)

Vaikuntham
village
Country	India
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Salem
Area [1]
• Total	5 km2 (2 sq mi)
Population
• Total	50,000
• Density	10,000/km2 (26,000/sq mi)
Languages
• Official	Tamil
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
Vehicle registration	TN 27
Coastline	0 kilometres (0 mi)

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

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 gathers with their family members and enjoys the festival. Typical folk dances, bull embracing, Oyilaattam, Giant wheel and etc will be present in the temple ground for people amusement.

Kaali Patti privu: Kaali Patti Privu sub village of Vaikuntham. Here is a hospital, village administrative office, 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 are available with safety locker option. Atm available at 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.

Hospitals: Near located 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 NH47.

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[2]" [3]==References==