Gram Panchayat|LGD 227680Water profile

Pallipatti

Part of Mecheri block, Salem district, in the Tirumanimuttar sub-basin.

Blocked

Taps are incomplete and the aquifer is already in deficit

65.19 percent of households report a tap connection, and Mettur is assessed over exploited at 119.0 percent of extraction. Closing the service gap draws on a source already over-drawn.

65.19%
Households with a tap connection

1,893 of 2,904 households, across 30 habitations.

55
Drinking-water sources

Deep Tubewell, Open Well, River, Treated Surface Water

119.0%
Groundwater extraction, containing taluktaluk projection

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

132.1 mm
Rainfall, last 30 days

30 rain days between 2026-08-03 and 2026-09-02, modelled rather than gauged.

45d ago
Last water-quality sample

Safe on 2026-07-23. 245 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
227680
Block
Mecheri
District
Salem
Mapped area
1,664.715 ha
Centroid
11.8727, 77.9033
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Plotted from the centroid of the TNGIS polygon. The marker is the Panchayat, not a settlement; the polygon is withheld pending the licence reply.

Habitations

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

HabitationPopulationHouseholdsTap connections
Amerikkadu1594040
Andigoundanur740221221
Elumathiyankadu3548928
Kachakaranur565142142
Kakkayantheru1002525
Kakkayantheru Kattuvalavu2355959
Kalandiyur47812080
Kalandiyur Kattuvalavu2716827
Kaminaickanpatti54113692
Karapattiyan Theru49812546
Makkalpatti3027650
Mottur2636631
Mt Theru3188048
Nadu Theru2476250
Nagojipatti844212135
Nariyanur2396060
Nariyanur Ar Colony2997526
Nariyanur Kattuvalavu2676725
Norachi Valavu3308350
Pallipatti796200152
Pallipatti Ad Colony3388547
Poosari Street1995021
Sampalliyan Theru3147979
Seepiliyur537135135
Udainthakarai2396021
Unjakkadu2957432
Uppupallam46211640
Vaathivalavu56514255
Vedankaradu2075210
Vedikkaranur41710566

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 Water40
Treated Surface WaterSurface Water11
RiverSurface Water3
Open WellGround Water1

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

Mettur taluk, by centroid in taluk.

119.0%
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.

Mettur
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. 6 TNRD blocks span more than one revenue taluk, so a block-to-taluk name match would have been wrong.

Water-quality testing

245 samples between 2022-10-16 and 2026-07-23. 200 were taken at a source and 45 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
20222
202377
202456
202552
202658

Land and irrigation

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

811 ha
net area sown
Census 2011

of 1,690.57 ha total.

85 ha
irrigated
Census 2011

canal 0 ha, wells 85 ha, tanks 0 ha.

27.34 ha
not cultivated
Census 2011

culturable waste; barren 265.57 ha, forest 0 ha.

Sources through the summer

Census 2011, reference year 2009.

8 source types were recorded for the year and 7 held through the summer months. These failed in summer: tubeWell.

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 (12)

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 inventory
  • water body condition
  • waterway network
  • flood hazard
  • observed flood events
  • natural drainage
  • wastewater service
Named gap
Not determined whether it applies here (13)

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

  • surface water change
  • 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