Karuppur
Karuppur is a panchayat town in Omalur taluk of Salem district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Karuppur is a panchayat town in Omalur taluk of Salem district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is one of the 31 panchayat towns in the district. Spread across an area of 12 km2 (4.6 sq mi), it had a population of 13,967 individuals as per the 2011 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Karuppur
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Periyar University
Periyar University is a university in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India. It was established by the Government of Tamil Nadu in 1997.
1.5 km · state public university in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India · Wikipedia - 02Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College
Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College is a Tamil Nadu government medical college established in 1986. The college is in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India, and is named after former Iron and Steel Minister of India Mohan Kumaramangalam.
5.8 km · Indian medical college · Wikipedia - 03Government College of Engineering, Salem
The Government College of Engineering, Salem in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India, is an engineering education center in the state of Tamil Nadu. It is one of the three institutions offering Metallurgical Engineering as a full-time course in Tamil Nadu.
700 m · Engineering college in Tamil Nadu, India · Wikipedia
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Getting to Karuppur
- Airports
- Tiruchirappalli (TRZ), 126 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 138 km · Kempegowda Bengaluru (BLR), 170 km
- Stations
- Omalur Junction railway station, 5.6 km · Magnesite Junction railway station, 2.4 km
- Tiruchirappalli → Karuppur120 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · ₹950–1,190
- Coimbatore → Karuppur146 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · ₹1,130–1,410
- Bengaluru → Karuppur150 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · ₹1,160–1,450
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Karuppur
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Karuppur. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundOther option is to hire an auto-rickshaw (three wheeled), but beware there's no standard price defined for a particular distance, it depends on the driver's mood, financial condition and time of the day.
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Next door to Karuppur
Karuppur is 10 km from Salem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Omalurpanchayat town in the Salem District, Tamil Nadu2.7 km
- DalavaipattiVillage in Salem District, Tamil Nadu, India4 km
- MallamooppampattiVillage in Salem District, Tamil Nadu, India4.7 km
- MaramangalathupattiVillage in Salem District, Tamil Nadu, India6 km