Gram Panchayat|LGD 223278Water profile

Pallapatti

Part of Dindigul block, Dindigul district.

Blocked

Taps are incomplete and the aquifer is already in deficit

97.19 percent of households report a tap connection, and Dindigul West is assessed over exploited at 125.7 percent of extraction. Closing the service gap draws on a source already over-drawn.

97.19%
Households with a tap connection

4,329 of 4,454 households, across 19 habitations.

44
Drinking-water sources

Deep Tubewell, Infiltration well, Non Conventional Methods (Tribal/Others)

125.7%
Groundwater extraction, containing taluktaluk projection

Dindigul West is assessed over exploited. This describes the taluk, not this Panchayat.

84 mm
Rainfall, last 30 days

26 rain days between 2026-08-07 and 2026-09-06, modelled rather than gauged.

26d ago
Last water-quality sample

Safe on 2026-08-11. 290 samples over 5 years, none of them recorded unsafe.

Place and boundary

The mapped extent comes from the TNGIS Panchayat polygon for this LGD code, so the place on the map is the place the records describe.

LGD Panchayat code
223278
Block
Dindigul
District
Dindigul
Mapped area
939.773 ha
Centroid
10.3566, 77.9497
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Plotted from the centroid of the TNGIS polygon. The marker is the Panchayat, not a settlement; the polygon is not drawn on this page.

Habitations

JJM records service for each habitation separately. A Panchayat total can hide a habitation that is behind.

HabitationPopulationHouseholdsTap connections
A.b.nagar1,360100100
Anthoniyarstreet1,224306306
Begamshahibanagar4756565
Chinnamuthu Nagar2454949
Chinnapallapatty1,10011040
Ganeshapuram3756565
Jeyanthi Colony1,684421421
Kottapatty2,550510510
M.g.r.nagar4906868
Murugabavanam Indranagar2,444611611
Nallakeni Street500125125
North Paraipatty640160160
Omsakthinagar700140140
Pallapatty2,192548548
Periya Pallaptti Ad Colony1,296324324
Poothamarathupatty1,900475434
Pudupatty1,605321321
Sivasakthi Nagar1252511
Thomaiyarpuram Colony2553131

Where the water comes from

The schemes JJM records as serving this Panchayat, grouped by the kind of source they draw on.

SourceCategoryCount
Deep TubewellGround Water34
Infiltration wellGround Water9
Non Conventional Methods (Tribal/Others)Others1

Groundwater, projected from the taluk

IN-GRES assesses revenue taluks. This Panchayat inherits its containing taluk's category unchanged, as containing-area context rather than a measurement of the place.

over-exploited
taluk categorytaluk projection

Dindigul West taluk, by centroid in taluk.

125.7%
stage of extraction, taluktaluk projection

Groundwater drawn each year as a share of what recharges, for the whole taluk. Above 100 is more drawn than recharges.

Dindigul West
containing revenue taluktaluk projection

Sub-district on the revenue hierarchy, which the Panchayat hierarchy does not nest inside.

The assessment unit is a revenue taluk, not the Gram Panchayat: each Panchayat inherits its containing taluk's category and stage of extraction unchanged, as containing-area context rather than a measurement of the place. Containment is decided by the TNGIS polygon centroid (vertex fallback for concave polygons); a Panchayat that falls in no taluk or in a taluk without an assessment is deferred, never guessed. 4 TNRD blocks span more than one revenue taluk, so a block-to-taluk name match would have been wrong.

Tanks and water bodies

Mapped by TNGIS and assigned to this Panchayat by the register itself, not by a name match.

12 water bodies cover 77.7 ha here, the largest of them 17.3 ha. The register names 8 of them; the names and polygons are not shown on this page.

Waterspread is the mapped extent, not storage. It says nothing about whether these hold water through the year, whether they are encroached, or when any one of them was last surveyed.

Registered byWater bodies
TNRD5
AED4
NRSC2
DOSS1

Water-quality testing

290 samples between 2022-11-29 and 2026-08-11. 263 were taken at a source and 27 at households.

None was recorded unsafe. A clean run this long describes the reporting as much as the water, so read it as an absence of recorded failures rather than as evidence of safety.

YearSamples
202233
202364
202474
202540
202679

Land and irrigation

Census 2011, reference year 2009. A historical baseline, not current cropping.

94.72 ha
net area sown
Census 2011

of 1,059.9 ha total.

35.83 ha
irrigated
Census 2011

canal 0 ha, wells 20.33 ha, tanks 15.5 ha.

23.32 ha
not cultivated
Census 2011

culturable waste; barren 241.87 ha, forest 0 ha.

Sources through the summer

Census 2011, reference year 2009.

5 source types were recorded for the year and 5 held through the summer months. None failed.

This is the 2009 pattern and says nothing about whether today’s piped supply holds through summer.

What is missing

15 of 40 capabilities are supported by acquired evidence. The rest are named here rather than left blank.

Named gap
No source carries it (11)

Nothing acquired for this district answers these, so they are named rather than estimated.

  • drinking water reliability
  • groundwater level observation
  • groundwater level trend
  • aquifer context
  • catchment context
  • water body condition
  • waterway network
  • flood hazard
  • observed flood events
  • natural drainage
  • wastewater service
Named gap
Not determined whether it applies here (14)

These may not be meaningful for an inland rural Panchayat. Until that is decided, they are neither claimed nor dismissed.

  • surface water change
  • river water quality
  • engineered stormwater drainage
  • wastewater treatment assets
  • pollution pressure inventory
  • measured water pollution
  • coastal and estuarine
  • current crop and irrigation state
  • soil water context
  • agricultural water system relation
  • crop water demand
  • agricultural water stress observation
  • agricultural water pollution pressure
  • composite priority score