![]() The city had a total of 24,755 households. ![]() ![]() The average literacy of the city was 82.15%, compared to the national average of 72.99%. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes accounted for 10.57% and 0.29% of the population respectively. A total of 7,732 were under the age of six, constituting 3,952 males and 3,780 females. Aliyar river passes about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away from the town and the town receives rainfall from Southwest monsoon due to the presence of Palghat gap.Īccording to the 2011 census, Pollachi had a population of 90,180 with a sex-ratio of 1,012 females for every 1,000 males, much above the national average of 929. It has an average elevation of 293 metres (961 ft). In 2019, the town became notable for the 2019 Pollachi sexual assault case involving the rape and extortion of numerous women by a gang. It was also known as Mudi Konda Chola Nallur during the period of the Cholas. Need to beat the Pollachi town traffic that's the key either early morning or night.Pollachi was known as Pozhil Vaitchi in Tamil which means "gifted with beauty" and later became Pollachi. I started early morning after Nirmalya darshan in Guruvayoor at 4.45 am so it was bliss and very quickly crossed Thrissur from there to Vadakancherry oncoming traffic with high beams and volvos ripping across.įrom Vadakancherry-Pollachi-Avinashi. Need to ask for directions as the roads are quite busy and Aluva town traffic quite high.Īluva-Angamaly busy highway and signals with lorry traffic is trouble some.Īnganmaly-Guruvayoor was fine. I had to use the route as Kalady bridge was under repair. Kanjirapally-Muttom occasion potholes need to negotiate little bad stretches. ![]() Hyderabad-Dindigul- Four laned nothing to really write about except for bypassing Banglore used the route Devanahalli-Hoskote-Hosur.ĭindigul-Theni Roads are in good condition but the town roads narrow down and pot holes have to negotiate them. Onwards Banglore-Theni-Mundakayam-Sabarimala. Return, when you come towards pollachi, there is a board which talks about this bridge construction and hence you wont miss this but for those who are taking the opposite direction, pls be aware of this. Then he showed me a small cut road (bumpy road) to by pass the area. Luckily, there were some beat cops who saw both of us taking the wrong route and then they "chased" us in their bike and told us about the wrong route. When I reached this place, there was a truck infront and then seeing the blockade, the truck took a side road and I followed. Įarlier, there was a service road (kind of) to by pass this but then now, it is closed. ![]() I am not sure where exactly is the bridge construction as I am not familiar with the place names in Pollachi but I felt it is almost near pollachi town. You need to take the palghat route and then there is a deviation which connects to the original route. One thing to note on this route is, there is some bridge construction happening in pollachi and hence the direct route is closed. Infact, I mostly do night drives as the traffic is sparse and hence is less tiring. ![]()
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