Tiruppur

Tiruppur ; திருப்பூர்
State :	India
State :	Tamil Nadu
District :	Tiruppur
Sub-district :	Tiruppur
Location :	11 ° 6 ′ N , 77 ° 21 ′ E Coordinates: 11 ° 6 ′ N , 77 ° 21 ′ E
Height :	300 m
Area :	159.6 km²
Residents :	444,352 (2011)
Population density :	2784 inhabitants / km²
Website :	www.tiruppurcorporation.com/

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Tiruppur (also: Tirupur ; Tamil திருப்பூர் Tiruppūr [ ˈtiɾɯpːuːr ]) is an industrial city in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu with around 444,000 inhabitants (2011 census). The rural place, which was insignificant until the early 20th century, received the status of a town on December 1, 1947 through the incorporation of several surrounding villages. Tiruppur is the administrative center of the Tiruppur District .

Location

Tiruppur is located on the Noyyal River around 45 kilometers east of Coimbatore . The highest point is 322 meters, the deepest 290 meters above sea level. The city is connected to the broad-gauge Chennai - Kochi - Thiruvananthapuram railway .

population

86 percent of the inhabitants of Tiruppur are Hindus , 10 percent are Muslims and 3 percent are Christians . As in all of Tamil Nadu, the main language is Tamil, which is spoken by 91 percent of the population as their mother tongue. 4 percent speak Telugu , 2 percent Kannada, and 1 percent each speak Urdu and Malayalam .

Population development in Tiruppur
year	population
1901	6,056
1911	9,429
1921	10,851
1931	18,059
1941	33,099
1951	52,479
1961	79,773
1971	113,302
1981	165.205
1991	235.661
2001	346,551
2011	444,543
Source: official censuses

economy

The city is famous as a location for the cotton industry (knitwear, hosiery, sportswear), which mainly produces for export in small and medium-sized companies. About 90 percent of Indian cotton knitwear exports come from Tiruppur. Ancillary businesses include dyeing, bleaching, printing and embroidery workshops. Suppliers to the clothing industry produce zippers, buttons and packaging materials ( polyethylene , cardboard). Thanks to its economic appeal, Tiruppur is experiencing rapid population growth, as the table above shows.

Ecological damage

The greatest challenge for the further development of Tiruppur is the lack of drinking water. The Noyyal river is heavily polluted by industrial sewage, especially residues of dye and bleaching agents, and often has low water levels due to the high consumption of industry. Drinking water has to be brought from Mettupalayam, more than 50 kilometers away at the foot of the Nilgiri Mountains .

Web links

Commons : Tiruppur - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Tiruppur Corporation (City Council)

Individual evidence

^ Census of India 2011.
^ Census of India 2011: C-1 Population By Religious Community. Tamil Nadu.
↑ Census of India 2001: C-16 City: Population by Mother Tongue (Tamil Nadu), accessed under Tabulations Plan of Census Year - 2001 .
↑ Caspar Dohmen: Clean or not at all. The rivers in India's T-shirt metropolis, Tirupur, were just sewers, but then a court passed a spectacular verdict. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 8, 2017, p. 20.

[1] Census of India 2011.

[2] Census of India 2011: C-1 Population By Religious Community. Tamil Nadu.

[3] Census of India 2001: C-16 City: Population by Mother Tongue (Tamil Nadu), accessed under Tabulations Plan of Census Year - 2001 .

[4] Caspar Dohmen: Clean or not at all. The rivers in India's T-shirt metropolis, Tirupur, were just sewers, but then a court passed a spectacular verdict. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 8, 2017, p. 20.