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Ambattur
Coordinates: 13°05′54″N 80°09′44″E / 13.0983, 80.1622
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
Area • Elevation	• 17 m (56 ft)
District(s)	Thiruvallur
Population	302,492 (2001)
Municipal Chairman	K. N. Sekar

Coordinates: 13°05′54″N 80°09′44″E / 13.0983, 80.1622 Ambattur is a major municipality in Thiruvallur district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India It is an industrial area north-west of Chennai. Though considered a part of Chennai for all practical purposes, Ambattur technically belongs to the Tiruvallur district. Closer to Anna Nagar, Ambattur is a fast developing residential localé of Chennai. , “Madras” redirects here. ... Tamil Nadu (தமிழ் நாடு, Land of the Tamils) is a state at the southern tip of India. ... Image File history File links Chennai_area_locator_map. ... Image File history File links India_Tamil_Nadu_locator_map. ... Image File history File links Locator_Dot. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... Timezone and TimeZone redirect here. ... Location of Mirzapur and the 82. ... The geography of India is diverse, with landscape ranging from snow-capped mountain ranges to deserts, plains, rainforests, hills, and plateaus. ... Elevation histogram of the surface of the Earth – approximately 71% of the Earths surface is covered with water. ... The divisions of a district. ... . Thiruvallur district occupies an area of 3424 km² and has a population of 2,738,866 (as of 2001). ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 - A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall appears in Seattles Magnuson Park, placed by an anonymous... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly referring to a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them. ... . Thiruvallur district occupies an area of 3424 km² and has a population of 2,738,866 (as of 2001). ... Tamil Nadu (தமிழ் நாடு, Land of the Tamils) is a state at the southern tip of India. ... , “Madras” redirects here. ... Anna Nagar is one of the posh residential localities in the metropolitan city of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. ...

Administration

Ambattur comes under the North Chennai parliamentary constituency and Villivakkam assembly constituency. Once a major panchayat, Ambattur was made a township in the 1960s. It has now attained the status of Municipal Corporation. Ambattur municipal corporation includes Padi, Korattur, Anna Nagar Western Extension, Moggapair and Ambattur Industrial Estate areas. The biggest state assembly constituency in Tamilnadu, Villivakkam covers an area from Annanagar in south and Madavaram in north Ayanavaram in east and Korattur in west. ... , Padi, Chennai is a suburb of Chennai, India. ... Korattur is satellite township in the northwest part of Chennai, India. ... Anna Nagar is one of the posh residential localities in the metropolitan city of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. ...

≈==Demographics== As of 2001 India census,^[1] Ambattur had a population of 302,492. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Ambattur has an average literacy rate of 70%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with 54% of the males and 46% of females literate. 10% of the population is under 6 years of age. 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 - A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall appears in Seattles Magnuson Park, placed by an anonymous... Image:1870 census Lindauer Weber 01. ...

Economy

Companies like Britannia Industries Limited, TI Cycles of India, Dunlop, TVS have their plants in Ambattur. Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited has its Satellite earth station at the Ambattur-Red Hills road. Jaya TV, Vijay TV, Asianet and Kairali relay signals from this facility. TI Cycles of India is one of the leading bicycle manufacturers in India. ... People whose family name is or was Dunlop include James Dunlop (1793-1848), Scottish-Australian astronomer John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor and founder of the Dunlop rubber company John Thomas Dunlop, United States administrator Sir Edward Weary Dunlop, Australian war hero Douglas Morton Dunlop, Scottish-American professor of history and... It has been suggested that TVS Suzuki be merged into this article or section. ... Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) is Indias phone carrier for international calls. ... A satellite earth station is a communications facility with a microwave radio transmitting and receiving antenna and required receiving and transmitting equipment for communicating with satellites. ... Jaya TV is one of the major Tamil language satellite television channels based in Chennai, India. ... Asianet is a Malayalam television channel in India. ... Logo of Kairali TV Kairali TV is a Malayalam television channel in India. ...

Ambattur Industrial Estate

The AIE (Ambattur Industrial Estate), spread over an area of 4.9 km² is the biggest small scale industrial estate in South Asia. Textile industries like ACL (Ambattur Clothing Limited), Bombay Fashions have their facilities here and employ thousands of women. Software companies like HCL Technologies and Tata Consultancy Services have their development centres in the Ambattur industrial estate. There are also a few BPO centres like Perot Systems in AIE. Square kilometre (U.S. spelling: square kilometer), symbol km², is a decimal multiple of SI unit of surface area square metre, one of the SI derived units. ... Map of South Asia (see note on Kashmir). ... HCL Technologies is one of the leading global technology and IT enterprises that offers product engineering, technology and application services, BPO, infrastructure services, IT hardware, systems integration, and distribution of technology and telecom products in India. ... Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS Limited) is one of the world’s largest providers of information technology, consulting, services and business-process outsourcing which commenced operations in 1968. ... Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is the leveraging of technology or specialist process vendors to provide and manage an organisations critical and/or non-critical enterprise processes and applications. ...

Ambattur Industrial Estate had its functioning commissioned in the year 1964, by the Government of Tamil Nadu. Several factors such as suitability of the soil communication facilities, availability of raw materials and a large volume of ground water suitable for industrial and domestic purposes, etc., were responsible for seeking this place for the setting up of this industrial Estate, an extent of 4 km² adjoining the estate was acquired by the Tamil Nadu Housing Board for housing purposes.

Chennai Tech Park is a 2.5 Million state-of-the-art-Futuristic Information Technology Park developed on 10 acres of land offering the finest of IT & ITES office spaces at Ambattur Industrial Estate, Chennai.

Transport

The Madras-Tiruvallur Highway (MTH Road or NH205) passes through Ambattur and the Chennai-Kolkata highway is just about 7km from the place making it a strategic location. The new Chennai Bypass between Maduravoyal and Madhavaram would pass through Ambattur IE. The completed first phase of the Bypass connects NH45 with NH4. The second phase, under construction, connects NH4 with NH5 and NH205 via Ambattur Industrial Estate. Madras refers to: the Indian city of Chennai, formerly known as Madras, the former Indian state, now known as Tamil Nadu (Plural of Madra): Ancient people of Iranian affinites, who lived in northwest Panjab in the Uttarapatha division of ancient India. ... Thiruvallur is a city and a municipality in Thiruvallur district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. ... The Network of National Highways in India National Highways in India is the class of roads maintained by the Central Government and is the main long-distance roadways. ... , “Calcutta” redirects here. ... Maduravoyal is a town in Thiruvallur district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. ... --144. ...

The Chennai Central-Arakkonam railway line passes through Ambattur and has a railway station at Ambattur. Suburban Broad Gauge EMU trains daily operate from Chennai Central and Chennai Beach to Arakkonam, Avadi, Tiruttani via Ambattur. By rail, Ambattur is 30 minutes from Chennai Central, 20 mins from Perambur and 10 minutes from Villivakkam. Chennai Central Chennai Central is the home of the Southern Railway and the most important rail hub in South India. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... A Suburban train in Chennai Chennai suburban railway is a commuter rail system in the Indian city of Chennai operated by the Southern Railway. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... , Avadi is a town and a municipality in Thiruvallur district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. ... Tiruttani is one of the main tourist centre in Thiruvallur district, Tamil nadu about 85km from Chennai. ... // Perambur, is a suburb in North Chennai, which is the capital of the state of Tamil Nadu in India and also the fourth largest city in India. ... The biggest state assembly constituency in Tamilnadu, Villivakkam covers an area from Annanagar in south and Madavaram in north Ayanavaram in east and Korattur in west. ...

Institutions

Among the various schools in Ambattur, Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar Higher Secondary School, T.I Matriculation Higher Secondary School, (both run by AMM Foundation), Sri Maha Ganesa Vidhyasala, GK Shetty Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Hussain Memorial school,Sethu Bhaskara Matriculation Higher Secondary School and Ebenezer Marcus are notable. Velammal Engineering College is located about 5km from Ambattur on the Ambattur-Red Hills road. Ambattur also houses the Chennai Zonal Training Center of Life Insurance Corporation of India. Vision of Velammal Engineering College Velammal Engineering College (VEC), is a premier engineering college located in Puzhal near Chennai, India. ... The Red Hills is the name of a prairie region in the southern and central parts of Kansas. ... The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LICI) is the largest life insurance company in India; it is fully owned by the Government of India. ...

Sir Ivan Stedeford Hospital, managed by the AMM Foundation, is a modern multi-speciality hospital serving 300,000 patients a year. Dr. Rabindran's Health Care Center is another notable hospital located near the town centre. Sir Ivan Stedeford Hospital is a modern multi-speciality hostpital in Ambattur near Chennai, India. ...

There are two temples here, one of Sri Vinnaraya Perumal and another for Lord Shiva. Temples for Lord Muruga and for the local deity Kannatamman can be seen here. The Mounaswami Matam, which has a temple for Sri Bhuvaneswari Amman inside, attracts a large number of the devotees of Mounaswami. There are several churches among the one prominently located close to the bus stand. The Mosque is near the railway station. For other uses, see Siva (disambiguation). ...

PTR is one of the big marriage halls in Ambattur. Rakki Theater entertains people by screening Tamil and English movies.

References

1. ^ Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns. (Provisional). Census Commission of India. Retrieved on 2007-09-03.

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External links

• Ambattur
• AIEMA - Ambattur Industrial Estate Manufactures' Assn
• Ambattur Clothing Limited
• Ivan Stedeford Hospital
• TI Cycles of India
• TI Matriculation Higher Sec. School
• SRM School
• Read an article about Ambattur in the Hindu
• India Land's Chennai Tech Park

Pattaravakkam is a small sub-urban locality in the north-west part of Chennai, India. ... A Suburban train in Chennai Chennai suburban railway is a commuter rail system in the Indian city of Chennai operated by the Southern Railway. ...