Gram Panchayat|LGD 224778Water profile

Thogaimalai

Part of Thogamalai block, Karur district, in the Amaravathi sub-basin.

Blocked

Taps are incomplete and the aquifer is already in deficit

96.84 percent of households report a tap connection, and Kulithalai is assessed critical at 90.9 percent of extraction. Closing the service gap draws on a source already over-drawn.

96.84%
Households with a tap connection

2,145 of 2,215 households, across 18 habitations.

36
Drinking-water sources

Deep Tubewell

90.9%
Groundwater extraction, containing taluktaluk projection

Kulithalai is assessed critical. This describes the taluk, not this Panchayat.

43.3 mm
Rainfall, last 30 days

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

26d ago
Last water-quality sample

Safe on 2026-08-11. 247 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
224778
Block
Thogamalai
District
Karur
Mapped area
1,426.443 ha
Centroid
10.7338, 78.4222
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Plotted from the centroid of the TNGIS polygon. The marker is the Panchayat, not a settlement; the polygon is withheld pending the licence reply.

Habitations

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

HabitationPopulationHouseholdsTap connections
Annanagar1353535
Harijana Colony1977777
Nadakkapatti860142142
Naickarkalam2624040
Nesavalar Colony525236236
Othaipatti1233131
Pachanampatti1756161
Palanigoundampatti1305540
Palayakallupatti380107107
Pandithartheru2229454
Pudukallupatti3248181
Serukkaranpannai1122929
Therkupalam1948368
Thirumanickampatti465120120
Thogamalai2,904482482
Varinthipatti3415757
Vedachalapuram1,564276276
Vellapatti332209209

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 Water36

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.

critical
taluk categorytaluk projection

Kulithalai taluk, by centroid in taluk.

90.9%
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.

Kulithalai
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. 3 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.

26 water bodies cover 63.1 ha here, the largest of them 23.1 ha. The register names 12 of them; the names and polygons are withheld pending the TNGIS licence reply.

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
AED14
NRSC7
TNRD5

Water-quality testing

247 samples between 2022-08-21 and 2026-08-11. 218 were taken at a source and 29 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
202233
202388
202488
202534
20264

What is missing

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

Named gap
No source carries it (12)

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

  • drinking water reliability
  • historical water access
  • 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
  • engineered stormwater drainage
  • wastewater treatment assets
  • pollution pressure inventory
  • measured water pollution
  • coastal and estuarine
  • historical agricultural baseline
  • 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