Kallakudy

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Kallakudy
dalmiapuram
town panchayat
Kallakudy is located in Tamil Nadu
Kallakudy
Kallakudy
Location in Tamil Nadu, India
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Country  India
State Tamil Nadu
District Tiruchirapalli
Languages
 • Official Tamil
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN 621651,621652
Vehicle registration TN-48
Coastline 0 kilometres (0 mi)
Nearest city Trichy
Lok Sabha constituency perambalur

Kallakudi or Dalmiapuram is a small township in the Tiruchirapalli district of Tamil Nadu in India. It is located at a distance of 40 km from Tiruchirapalli Junction. This is the place which turned the career of Dr. Karunanidhi, the former chief minister.

Dalmiapuram is the hometown of Dalmia Cements. This region is rich in limestone deposits. Dalmia Cements was the largest cement plant in Asia at its completion. It has a greenish colony called Dalmiapuram. Educational institutions like Vivekananda matriculation school and Dalmia higher secondary school serves the local population here. Students do their higher education mostly in Trichy. Vadugerpet Matha Temple is famous here. There is a Catholic church dedicated to Saint Xavier, whose body is still kept at Goa. In the same name there is a middle school started in 1914. this was the first school in this area for the poor students. Still very poor students only come to this school. the catholic population is about four thousand. since 1968 this church is administered as a separate parish church.

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