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Konaiyur (கோனையூர்) is a tiny village in Tamil Nadu located at Tiruvannamalai District, Chetpet Taluck in India. Located at three kilometers from the state highway SH-4 from Vinnamangalam (via Nadupattu & Kudisaikarai), in between Arni and Chetput. The neighboring villages are Periya Kozhappalur, Kudisaikarai, Vinayakapuram, Melanur, Thirumani, Katteri (Gengapuram), Nariyambadi. Most of the villagers are rice cultivating farmers and fewer government employees. The village is located on the Cheyyar River bank, which originates from Jawadhu hills near Chengam and later joins in Palar River at Walajabath. Due to limited ground water availability, farmers are changing their cultivation method to "deep borewell" instead of traditional wells. Recent monsoon rain made the farmers to cheer and the ground water level is back to its form. Agricultural activities are going good on its phase. There were lots of hand-loom silk weavers, weaving silk sarees for Arni, Kancheepuram Silk, but these days no one is weaving due to less remuneration and health issues. Village total population is around 2,000. The literacy level is not much satisfactory. But in recent days, all the young boys and girls are performing well in school education. The quality of teachers are not much encouraging otherwise the students would outperform compared to the metro students. Konaiyur has only one school with 42 children, studying at Panchayat Union Elementary School, Konaiyur. Classes are conducted here from First to Fifth Standard. Most of the time the school will be operated with only one Head Master & one teacher for all the classes, he/she would be performing multiple task for the children. After completing the elementary school students has to commute to Periya Kolappalur (பெரிய கொழப்பலூர்) Government Higher Secondary School (now the school has been divided as Government Boys Higher Secondary School & Girls High school) to continue their studies up to higher secondary level. In recent days there are many private schools operating the VAN facility to the school kids. Such facilities attracts the parents to send their kids to the private schools instead of Government schools. Which in turn make the education costlier but it should be a birth right and free for all the children. In 2002, the full-fledged telephone connection from the Tamil Nadu government had been installed. For some reason the lines are discontinued. No copper telephone cable connectivity is present to the village. Nowadays the village is connected to the world arena with the major mobile operators. For the couple of years this village is receiving good quality of television cable connectivity from the nearby town Arni. Due to the advancement of the wireless technologies, villagers are able to use the internet through the mobile GPRS connectivity. Hardly they could get the upload/download speed of around 30 to 100 kbit/s with the good 2G/3G mobile phones. Otherwise wired broadband internet connectivity is a nightmare. Also the DTH television technology is providing good international television channels. There are no emergency medical facility available for the villagers but they need to travel PERIYA KOLAPPALUR Govt Hospital 4km away. New 108 Emergency ambulance service is very much helpful for the village. Almost 95% population are Hindus and remaining 5% Christians. Majority of the population are belongs to Vanniyar, about 15% people are Yadhavar and about 10% of the people belongs to Scheduled Caste. In AD 1900s much varied different caste people were lived here but on now they have been relocated to the metro cities. Many small temples are constructed and renovated in different centuries. The figure which has shown here is the Lakshmi Narayana Perumal Temple constructed in the mid 17th century. Majority of the people used to celebrate Pongal, Diwali, Ganesh Chaturthi, Koozvaarthal(கூழ்வார்த்தல்) as a major festival. Pongal, in the month of January and Koozvaarthal in the month of April/May are celebrated in a grandiose manner. Tamil Nadu’s famous Jallikattu (ஜல்லிகட்டு) used to be played during Pongal festival which adds real color and flavor to the festival. Due to lack of enthusiasm and unavailability of youngsters, passionate game of Jallikattu has been dropped in the recent times. Earlier, Konaiyur was coming under Vandavasi Lok Sabha constituency. But after the delimitation by the Election Commission of India, now the village is coming under Arani Lok Sabha constituency. Now the village is coming under Chetpet Taluk, previously it was under Vandavasi taluck. The majority of the population belongs to Vanniyar, most of them supporting the state political party Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) and its alliance. But very recently, most of the supporters had moved to the other ruling parties. Anyhow only the money plays major role in all the elections. Major parties will be distributing from Rs.50 to Rs.500 per Vote. In 2011 Legislative Assembly election, ruling and opposition parties had distributed Rs.150 per vote. Major electoral candidates will never mind how stringent the election commission is. The village was coming under Peranamallur Legislative Assembly. But from the year (2011) Peranamallur Legislative Assembly was scraped and this village has been added in to Polur. All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate Mrs L.Jayasudha, won the election from our legislative assembly. Now she is representing from Polur legislative assembly as an MLA. Yet to look for any active commendable speech at Assembly. In recent local body election Mr Murali Swaminathan has been elected has the village Panjayath president. He is the youngest (aged 27) of all the village president elected at Konaiyur / possibly in entire Tamil Nadu. On an average daily 250 to 300 liters of good quality milk is supplied to the private / government dairies. There are four different teams are collecting the milk from the farmers with stringent competition. The cow owners will get the weekly payment for the supplied milk. Actually cow owners are paid Rs.19 (for raw milk), in turn after transporting and processing it in to the cities the packet milk is sold Rs.40 to 50 per liter (after fat removal!!!). There are enough fund allocated to the village development by the central and state governments. Many projects are carried out like, Public toilets, Individual household toilets, library, play ground, cement roads, good street lights and 100 day Rural employment Guarantee Scheme (). Mr Mohan Sekar, is a very first doctoral (Phd) candidate from this village. He is the one motivating & real pride to the under developed villages. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Konaiyur」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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