Gram Panchayat|LGD 228911Reviewed brief
Vettuvakkottai
Part of Thiruvonam block, Thanjavur district, in the Cauvery Delta sub-basin. Reviewed by a person on 2026-07-25.
A historic drainage warning deserves verification—not a pollution label.
Historical records show substantial irrigation split between canals and wells, while Summer 2025 records show a mixed crop portfolio. A 2009 Census record for Ooranipuram says drainage discharged directly to a water body. This should prompt a present-day check; it does not establish current contamination or identify a pollution source.
Across nine habitations
348.00 ha canal · 281.83 ha wells
Mixed crop portfolio · 2025
Kavalipatti firka · 2024
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
- 228911
- Block
- Thiruvonam
- District
- Thanjavur
- Mapped area
- 1,153.485 ha
- Centroid
- 10.4783, 79.2034
Habitations
JJM records service for each habitation separately. A Panchayat total can hide a habitation that is behind.
| Habitation | Population | Households | Tap connections |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chatrapati | 465 | 87 | 87 |
| Kovilkollai | 160 | 38 | 38 |
| Manthakollai Punjai | 221 | 25 | 25 |
| Moonumankollai | 215 | 45 | 45 |
| Pattuviduthi | 504 | 90 | 90 |
| Puduviduthi | 1,164 | 199 | 199 |
| Thattankollai | 310 | 47 | 47 |
| Uranipuram | 345 | 50 | 50 |
| Vettuvakottai | 1,058 | 161 | 161 |
Where the water comes from
The schemes JJM records as serving this Panchayat, grouped by the kind of source they draw on.
| Source | Category | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Deep Tubewell | Ground Water | 23 |
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.
Orathanadu taluk, by centroid in taluk.
Groundwater drawn each year as a share of what recharges, for the whole taluk. Above 100 is more drawn than recharges.
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. 8 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.
7 water bodies cover 12.9 ha here, the largest of them 5.5 ha. The register names 2 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 by | Water bodies |
|---|---|
| AED | 5 |
| NRSC | 2 |
Water-quality testing
128 samples between 2022-09-15 and 2026-07-29. 88 were taken at a source and 40 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.
| Year | Samples |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 20 |
| 2024 | 28 |
| 2025 | 52 |
| 2026 | 23 |
Land and irrigation
Census 2011, reference year 2009. A historical baseline, not current cropping.
of 1,202.68 ha total.
canal 348 ha, wells 281.83 ha, tanks 0 ha.
culturable waste; barren 0 ha, forest 0 ha.
Sources through the summer
Census 2011, reference year 2009.
4 source types were recorded for the year and 4 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 this means here
Read by a person against the records above, on 2026-07-25.
Administrative identity
Vettuvakkottai is recorded as LGD Gram Panchayat 228911 and JJM Gram Panchayat 152334; its Census record covers settlements 638954, 638955, and 638956.
Drinking-water service
JJM displays 742 households and connections across nine habitations, 23 deep-tubewell source rows, and a latest displayed Safe sample dated 2026-06-29.
Land and irrigation baseline
The 2009 Census baseline totals 1,202.68 ha, 794.92 ha net sown, and 629.83 ha irrigated, split between 348.00 ha by canals and 281.83 ha by wells.
Dated pollution-pressure signal
Ooranipuram's 2009 amenity record says drainage discharged directly to a water body. This is a historical warning that requires a present-day check, not a current pollution finding.
Agriculture and groundwater
Summer 2025 AgriNet shows 138.4 ha across a mixed crop portfolio; Kavalipatti firka is Over Exploited at 126.7 percent.
What is missing
15 of 40 capabilities are supported by acquired evidence. The rest are named here rather than left blank.
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
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
What would sharpen this
- Does the recorded drainage outlet still discharge to the same water body?
- What do current water-quality measurements show at the outlet and receiving water?
- How much irrigation currently depends on canals compared with wells?
- Where are the Panchayat boundary, drains, farms, and receiving water body?