Pudukkottai

1 in 11 schools here has an issue in the government’s record

174 of 1,930 girls’ and co-ed schools

1.7× the Tamilnadu average (1 in 19)

Block registry

Rank	Block	Schools with issuesIssues	How commonRate
01	Avudaiyarkoil	19	1 in 6
02	Gandarvakkottai	16	1 in 7
03	Kunnandarkoil	15	1 in 8
04	Thiruvarankulam	22	1 in 9
05	Manamelkudi	10	1 in 10
06	Arimalam	11	1 in 10
07	Ponnamaravathy	12	1 in 11
08	Viralimalai	15	1 in 11
09	Annavasal	16	1 in 12
10	Pudukkottai	15	1 in 14
11	Aranthangi	11	1 in 20
12	Karambakkudi	7	1 in 21
13	Thirumayam	5	1 in 21

“Issues” means one thing here: no girls’ toilet, or one that does not work. That is all UDISE+ 2024-25 records. A school shown with none may still have plenty.

What else these schools report

Of the 174 schools in Pudukkottai listed here, this is what their own UDISE+ 2024-25 records show. These counts describe those schools, not every school in Pudukkottai.

151 No accessible toilet for disabled children
71 Nowhere to wash hands
59 No working toilet for boys
37 No playground
29 A classroom needs major repair
21 Only one teacher for the whole school
17 No female teacher
10 No library
4 No ramp for disabled children
4 No teacher at all
2 No drinking water

Elected representatives in the area

The sitting members for the assembly seats these schools fall in. Listed because they are who to ask — not as a claim that they caused it.

Mohamed Farvas. J Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam Aranthangi · 37 of these schools Record
N. Subramanian Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam Gandarvakottai (SC) · 36 of these schools Record
Vijayabaskar. C AIADMK Viralimalai · 31 of these schools Record
Siva.V.Meyyanathan DMK Alangudi · 30 of these schools Record
Regupathy.S DMK Thirumayam · 23 of these schools Record
V. Muthuraja DMK Pudukkottai · 17 of these schools Record

Photographs from Election Commission of India affidavits, as published by MyNeta (ADR).