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| Country | India |
| State | Tamil Nadu |
| District(s) | Vellore |
| Population | 91,376 (2001[update]) |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+05:30) |
Gudiyatham (Tamil: குடியாத்தம்) (also called Gudiyattam or Gudiyettram) is a municipality in Vellore district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is a town located 31 km from the city of Vellore.
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Gudiyatham is about 172 km west of Chennai and 165 km southeast of Bangalore. The town is located near border of Andhra Pradesh state. Gudiyatham has more than 500 small villages around it.The recently announced NH 234 passes through it from Mangalore to Villupuram via Sira,Chintamani,V.Kota,Pernambut,Gudiyattam,Katpadi,Vellore and Tiruvannamalai.
As of 2001[update] India census,[1] Gudiyatham had a population of 91,376. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Gudiyatham has an average literacy rate of 71%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 78%, and female literacy is 64%. In Gudiyatham, 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Gangai amman Temple located in Gudiyattam, famous for its yearly carnival every year on May 14–15 (Tamil month - Vaigasi 1st) which attracts more than a million people from various places (http://dharsanam.blogspot.com/2010/04/gudiyatham-sri-gangai-amman.html). The Temple is famous for its fair. The temple is located on the bank of Goundanya Maha nadhi near the bus stand of Gudiyattam.
The Shiva temple Balasarthuleeswarar ( Baby-Tiger-Eswarar) in Tamil translation Karupuleeswarar Aalayam in Nellorepet is more 1000 years old. It is famous for Car festival. The Shiva temple was abode for famous sage Goundanya Rishi and the river passing through the town is in his name "Goundanya Nadi". The temple has Simha tank.The temple is on Gudiyatham to Pernambut road.
Also Sri Veera Vijaya Anjaneya Swamy temple located in a nearby Village D.P.Palayam. Every month in the full moon day abhishekam takes place and a huge amount of people across the area visit the temple. It is 18 Kms from Gudiyattam, there are frequent buses available from Gudiyattam 2, 2a, 25 and other private services that goes towards paradarami and Chittoor.
The town is close to the recently famous religious tourism/place of worship spot called the GOLDEN TEMPLE at Sripuram.
The Republic of India's first national flag was woven here. Gudiyatham has a thriving small scale sector manufacturing safety matches, lungis, and beedis. The safety matches industry is next largest to Sivakasi. Beedis are exported to Pakistan and other parts of India.
The town has many movie halls and has in total, seven pettais or colonies. Gudiyatham is famous for gold jewellery market. Being on the Katpadi - Jolarpettai railway line, it is much connected to Chennai and Bangalore. The handloom and powerloom lungies which are manufactured here are exported to many parts of India and Arab countries.
Other than these, there are two cotton mills running in Gudiyatham. One is Thirumagal Mills Limited and other one is Rajeshwari Mills Limited; both employ a considerable amount of employees. Cow and Ox market is held near Nellorepet every Tuesday and it has been so, for more than 100 years.
The major spoken language is Tamil. It has a fairly large Telugu speaking population. It has reputed educational institutions like the KMG college(arts and science and techear training b.ed) and Rajagopal Polytechnic college, which is one of the oldest and most reputed institutions in Tamil Nadu.
Majority of people are weavers, farmers, safety matches factory worker and beedis factory workers.
This town was one of the highest endemic areas for leprosy in India with more than 2000 new cases detected annually in the 1960s. Even now the region has not reached the World Health Organisation (WHO) elimination target of less than 1 leprosy patient per 10,000 population. This led to the establishment of "The Schieffelin Leprosy Research and Training Centre (SLRTC)- Karigiri" which had a leprosy control program in this area and actively recruited patients for treatment with multi-drug-therapy (MDT) and is still providing extra ordinary treatment to those suffering from leprosy, coming from the surrounding areas
The Sugarcane Research Station at Melalathur, Gudiyatham was started in 1935 under a scheme for sugarcane research of the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research. From 1981 onwards, it is under the jurisdiction of the "Tamil Nadu Agricultural University", Coimbatore. (TNAU)
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The name of the town stems from the yesteryear name supposedly 'Kudiyetram' which literally means 'a surge in population'. There is also a myth, Karikala Cholan first cleared forest and made people habitat here so called this place 'Kudiyetram'. The supportive evidence for the myth is that the town is populated with Sengunthar community who were of Chola kingdom and other communities naidu, karuneegar, and chettiar also living in gudiyatham . The passage of time and most probably British tongues have slowly lead to the now totally incomprehensible name 'Gudiyatham'.
Many archeology excavation done in this town shows that this place was much flourished during Chola rule. Many Roman wine vase and coins were found in the periphery of this town.
Gudiyatham assembly constituency is part of Vellore Lok Sabha constituency.[2] Kamarajar was elected as a Member of Legislative Assembly from the Gudiyatham constituency when he was the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.
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| Next station eastbound: Kavanoor |
West Line, Chennai Suburban | Next station westbound: Mel-Alathur |
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| Stop number: 45 | KM from start: 154.11 | ||
| Stations of West Line of Chennai Suburban Railway |
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