Gram Panchayat|LGD 223537Water profile

Kovilur

Part of Vedasandur block, Dindigul district.

Blocked

Taps are incomplete and the aquifer is already in deficit

87.34 percent of households report a tap connection, and Gujiliamparai is assessed over exploited at 158.7 percent of extraction. Closing the service gap draws on a source already over-drawn.

87.34%
Households with a tap connection

3,347 of 3,832 households, across 52 habitations.

105
Drinking-water sources

Deep Tubewell, Open Well, Spring

158.7%
Groundwater extraction, containing taluktaluk projection

Gujiliamparai is assessed over exploited. This describes the taluk, not this Panchayat.

50.5 mm
Rainfall, last 30 days

23 rain days between 2026-08-07 and 2026-09-06, modelled rather than gauged.

18d ago
Last water-quality sample

Safe on 2026-08-19. 616 samples over 5 years, none of them recorded unsafe.

Place and boundary

The mapped extent comes from the TNGIS Panchayat polygon for this LGD code, so the place on the map is the place the records describe.

LGD Panchayat code
223537
Block
Vedasandur
District
Dindigul
Mapped area
2,405.629 ha
Centroid
10.5884, 78.0691
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Plotted from the centroid of the TNGIS polygon. The marker is the Panchayat, not a settlement; the polygon is not drawn on this page.

Habitations

JJM records service for each habitation separately. A Panchayat total can hide a habitation that is behind.

HabitationPopulationHouseholdsTap connections
Avalagoundanur2093838
Azhalagappagundanur982525
Chellakuttiyur2,387434314
Chinnarauthanpatti979178164
Chinnaravithanpatti Ad Colony3977
Ettikulam721818
Ganeshpuram116212
Gurikodankipatti551010
Kalathur482010
Kamarajpuram2043720
Kamarajpuram2374320
Kannayapuram1032525
Kanthasamy Pillaikulam1432626
Karattusalaiyur1542828
Kovilur2,941734734
Kovilur Ad Colony3366
N.kalathur2404848
N.karattur661313
Naduthoppur1273939
Nallur2534644
Nallur Ad Colony1243131
Narayanapuram422020
Navakulam2576464
Palayathoppur1657676
Pannaikulam2976060
Perumalkoilpatti1933535
Poosaripatti452106106
Pulligoundanur61111
R.v.s.nagar1382511
Ramanathapuram1,883342311
Rathnakiriur1823320
Sakthinagar1983636
Salaiyur Adc2043737
Saminathapuram1983636
Senthottam55100
Srirengapuram2043737
Sukkampatti Ad Colony561515
Sukkampatty1713118
T Kalathur661515
Thangachiammapatti Ad Colony582126126
Thangachiyammapatti512128128
Thirumanikkanur215391
Thiruvakkapatti1232811
Thogamalaikottai3828364
Thoppanaicknur2489090
Thoppanayakanur Ad Colony611111
Thoppupattiadc428107107
Thoppupatty1,166212107
Uppalapatti1124040
Vaithikiriyanur61111
Vaithiyanur2978585
Varatharajapuram2365656

Where the water comes from

The schemes JJM records as serving this Panchayat, grouped by the kind of source they draw on.

SourceCategoryCount
Deep TubewellGround Water87
Open WellGround Water17
SpringRain Water1

Groundwater, projected from the taluk

IN-GRES assesses revenue taluks. This Panchayat inherits its containing taluk's category unchanged, as containing-area context rather than a measurement of the place.

over-exploited
taluk categorytaluk projection

Gujiliamparai taluk, by centroid in taluk.

158.7%
stage of extraction, taluktaluk projection

Groundwater drawn each year as a share of what recharges, for the whole taluk. Above 100 is more drawn than recharges.

Gujiliamparai
containing revenue taluktaluk projection

Sub-district on the revenue hierarchy, which the Panchayat hierarchy does not nest inside.

The assessment unit is a revenue taluk, not the Gram Panchayat: each Panchayat inherits its containing taluk's category and stage of extraction unchanged, as containing-area context rather than a measurement of the place. Containment is decided by the TNGIS polygon centroid (vertex fallback for concave polygons); a Panchayat that falls in no taluk or in a taluk without an assessment is deferred, never guessed. 4 TNRD blocks span more than one revenue taluk, so a block-to-taluk name match would have been wrong.

Tanks and water bodies

Mapped by TNGIS and assigned to this Panchayat by the register itself, not by a name match.

12 water bodies cover 71.9 ha here, the largest of them 27.7 ha. The register names 7 of them; the names and polygons are not shown on this page.

Waterspread is the mapped extent, not storage. It says nothing about whether these hold water through the year, whether they are encroached, or when any one of them was last surveyed.

Registered byWater bodies
TNRD7
AED5

Water-quality testing

616 samples between 2022-11-22 and 2026-08-19. 586 were taken at a source and 30 at households.

None was recorded unsafe. A clean run this long describes the reporting as much as the water, so read it as an absence of recorded failures rather than as evidence of safety.

YearSamples
202267
2023105
2024174
2025173
202697

Land and irrigation

Census 2011, reference year 2009. A historical baseline, not current cropping.

793.04 ha
net area sown
Census 2011

of 2,355.26 ha total.

383.42 ha
irrigated
Census 2011

canal 0 ha, wells 357.92 ha, tanks 25.5 ha.

31.57 ha
not cultivated
Census 2011

culturable waste; barren 188.88 ha, forest 0 ha.

Sources through the summer

Census 2011, reference year 2009.

6 source types were recorded for the year and 6 held through the summer months. None failed.

This is the 2009 pattern and says nothing about whether today’s piped supply holds through summer.

What is missing

15 of 40 capabilities are supported by acquired evidence. The rest are named here rather than left blank.

Named gap
No source carries it (11)

Nothing acquired for this district answers these, so they are named rather than estimated.

  • drinking water reliability
  • groundwater level observation
  • groundwater level trend
  • aquifer context
  • catchment context
  • water body condition
  • waterway network
  • flood hazard
  • observed flood events
  • natural drainage
  • wastewater service
Named gap
Not determined whether it applies here (14)

These may not be meaningful for an inland rural Panchayat. Until that is decided, they are neither claimed nor dismissed.

  • surface water change
  • river water quality
  • engineered stormwater drainage
  • wastewater treatment assets
  • pollution pressure inventory
  • measured water pollution
  • coastal and estuarine
  • current crop and irrigation state
  • soil water context
  • agricultural water system relation
  • crop water demand
  • agricultural water stress observation
  • agricultural water pollution pressure
  • composite priority score