Aruvankadu | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Image Alt: | Aruvankadu railway station |
Pushpin Map: | India Tamil Nadu |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Tamil Nadu, India |
Coordinates: | 11.3506°N 76.7747°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | India |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Tamil Nadu |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Kongu Nadu |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | The Nilgiris |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Elevation M: | 1890 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Demographics Type1: | Languages |
Demographics1 Title1: | Official |
Demographics1 Info1: | Tamil |
Timezone1: | IST |
Utc Offset1: | +5:30 |
Postal Code Type: | PIN |
Postal Code: | 643202 |
Area Code Type: | Telephone code |
Area Code: | 0423 |
Registration Plate: | TN 43 |
Blank1 Name Sec1: | Nearest town |
Blank1 Info Sec1: | Coonoor |
Blank2 Name Sec1: | Lok Sabha constituency |
Blank2 Info Sec1: | Nilgiris |
Blank3 Name Sec1: | Vidhan Sabha constituency |
Blank3 Info Sec1: | Coonoor |
Footnotes: | Temperature from Batchmates.com[1] |
Aruvankadu is a big village located in The Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu, India. It is located between Coonoor and Ooty on the NH 67, 6 km from Coonoor town and 12 km from Ooty. It is connected by frequent bus services from various towns and cities. Aruvankadu is also connected via the Nigiri Mountain Railway (NMR).
It houses the cordite factory, one of the 40 Indian Ordnance Factories.[2] It is one of the oldest defence factories coming under the Ministry of Defence and the Indian Ordnance Factories. The cordite factory was established in 1903 by the then British Government on a huge campus and it still caters to the Defence Services by manufacturing cordite, an antiquated type of smokeless propellant, which is used in manufacturing small arms ammunition and also as a propellant in various tanks.[2]
It is surrounded by small villages such as Balaji Nagar, Kara Korai, Jagathala, Othanatty, and Hosatty.
There are four schools (Kendriya Vidyalaya, Defence Employees Matriculation School, Cordite Factory Higher Secondary School and St. Anns Convent and Girls Higher Secondary School). There is also an apprentice college affiliated to the cordite factory.
The main sources of income for the local residents include employment at the Cordite factory, cultivation of Nilgiri tea and vegetables.
British astronomer and physicist Robert Hanbury Brown, developer of the intensity interferometer and discoverer of the Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect, was born in this place, where he lived until 8 years old.