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Karur is a town with a significant floating population, where 86.85% of the land is developed, with residential areas comprising 39.41% of the total area. The local law enforcement is managed by the Tamil Nadu Police, with various specialized units for maintaining order. The economy is primarily driven by the tertiary sector, particularly in textiles, and the town is also home to TNPL, a major paper producer.

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Karur is a town with a significant floating population, where 86.85% of the land is developed, with residential areas comprising 39.41% of the total area. The local law enforcement is managed by the Tamil Nadu Police, with various specialized units for maintaining order. The economy is primarily driven by the tertiary sector, particularly in textiles, and the town is also home to TNPL, a major paper producer.

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es in the town. The town has a large floating population. Out of the total area, 86.

85% of the land


is marked developed and 37.63% of the city remains undeveloped. Residential areas make up
39.41% of the town's total area while commercial enterprises and industrial units make up 4.72%
and 1.99% respectively. The population density of the city in the 2001 census was 128 persons
per hectare and the average household size was 3.95 as of 2001. Hindus form the majority of the
urban population, followed by Muslims and Christians. Tamil is the main language spoken in the
city, but the use of English is relatively common; English is the medium of instruction in most
educational institutions and offices in the service sector

LAW AND ORDER

Law and order in the city in maintained by the Karur sub division of the Tamil Nadu
Police headed by a Superintendent of Police. There are 4 police stations for law and order, 2 for
traffic and 1 all women police station and more than 10 police outpost in the city, . There are
special units like prohibition enforcement, district crime, social justice and human rights, district
crime records and special branch that operate at the district level police division headed by a
Superintendent of Police

ARTS, SOCIETY AND CULTURE


KARUR PASUPATEESWARAR TEMPLE

The town formed a part of the traditional Chera and Chola empires and has a number of
exquisitely sculpted temples. Karuvurar born in medieval Karur is one among the nine devotees
who sung the divine Music Thiruvichaippa, which is the ninth Thirumurai. He is the single
largest composer among the nine authors of Thiruvichaippa. He lived during the reign of the
Chola king Raja RajaChola I. In addition to the Pasupatheeswarar Siva temple, there is a Vishnu
temple at Thiruvithuvakkodu suburb of Karur, sung by famous Kulasekaraazhvaar (7th-8th
century). The same temple is presumably mentioned in epic Silappadikaram as
AdahamaadamRanganathar whose blessings CheranSenguttuvan sought before his north Indian
expedition.

TNPL, KARUR

The town has about 19% of its total area under agricultural land use. The major crops are rice,
cotton, sugar cane and oil seeds, while the major horticultural crops are coconut, banana, betel
and mango. The town is the commercial centre for trading of agricultural commodities from the
nearby towns and villages. Karur, being the headquarters of the district, has registered growth in
tertiary sectors, with a corresponding decrease in the primary Sector. Approximately 80 per cent
of the workforce is employed in tertiary sector, 17 per cent in primary sector and 4% in
secondary sector activities. Karur is a major home textile centre and has five major product
groups — bed linens, kitchen linens, toilet linens, table linens and wall hangings. The town
generates around ₹6000 crores[More than one Billion US$ in foreign exchange through direct
and indirect exports. Major importers are Wallmart, Sears in USA and other major retailers in
UK. Allied industries like ginning and spinning mills, dyeing factories and weaving employ
around 300,000 people in and around Karur. Hand-loom Exports from Karur began on a modest
scale with just 15 exporters in 1975.Karur is also home to an integrated textile park, ₹130
croreKarur Textile Park Limited (KTPL) a premier facility of its kind in the country for its
technical and ancillary facilities.
Bharat Petroleum Corporation formed a joint venture with Petronet CCK and has
installed a pipeline facility from Cochin to Karur for transporting petroleum products. The
petroleum products received at the BPCL-Karur terminal is supplied to more than 20 districts of
Tamil Nadu through tanker trucks. TNPL promoted by the Government of Tamil Nadu with loan
assistance from the World Bank, located near Karur, is the largest producer of bagasse
(sugarcane waste from Sugar mills) based paper in the world and the second largest paper
producer in Asia. The firm produces 230,000 tonnes of printing and writing paper and consumes
1 million tonnes of bagasse every year

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