Chettinad

Chettinad is an area situated in the South-Eastern region of Tamil Nadu  approximately 50Kms to the west of the coastal line of  Bay of Bengal in the district of Sivagangai. It during its initial stages consist of 96 villages but now due to the movement of people out of certain villages, has diminished to about 75 villages, in the near past.

Chettinad has well planned towns provided with well defined roadways, reservoirs to store and supply water to the town, a planned market place, temples and everything, providing the basic needs of people.

But the saddest story is that Chettinad happened to be a dry land with no proper rain which was a major set back for the area. As such due to non availability of any mode of living, people were forced to leave Chettinad to various of parts of the State in search of their living.

Devakottai & Karaikudi are the two major towns in that region consisting of what is called Maximum Pullies* (People).