Ettaiyapuram

Ettayapuram is a panchayat town in Thoothukudi area of Tamil Nadu, India. It is the origination of Tamil writers Mahakavi Bharathiar and Umaru Pula. Muthuswami Dikshitar, one of the ternion of Carnatic music was belittled in his last a very long time by the leader of Ettayapuram. Ettayapuram was initially Ilasanadu, which was administered by the Pandya Kings. After the Pandyas, Ettappan was designated as Zamindar by Madurai Nayak tradition under the supervision of Vijayanagara Empire. Ettayapuram is associated with Madurai, Thoothukkudi, Rameshwaram and Tirunelveli by street. The closest railroad station is Kovilpatti, which is 15 km from Ettayapuram.

Individuals of Ettayapuram are fundamentally occupied with weaving, making matches and agribusiness. Conventional weavers weave cotton yarn utilizing handlooms. Little organizations work control lingers and unified exchanges of setting up the string for weaving and coloring. The other real industry is the produce of match boxes, which incorporates fabricating little boxes that contain matchsticks, getting ready match sticks and stacking them on to the matchboxes. The territory of land under development has fallen because of coming up short rains and moderately poor soil richness.