The area's other larger towns include Sivaganga, Kalayar Kovil, Devakottai, Manamadurai, Ilaiyangudi, Thiruppuvanam, Singampunari and Tiruppattur.

[13] In response, the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University had set up the state's first Red Soil Dryland Research Centre in Sivaganga district.

[16] It would be immensely helpful to farmers of chili, turmeric, medicinal plants and tamarind, as the focus would be to export their products.

The proposed spices park would establish machinery for cleaning, sorting, grading, packaging, storing, and sterilizing among others.

Some of them are listed below: Moser Baer Clean Energy Limited (MBCEL) has commissioned a 5 MW grid connected solar PV project at Sivaganga, Tamil Nadu.

Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of the farm, through a competitive bidding process conducted by the Tamil Nadu Renewable Development Agency.

The project is, then, implemented under the 50 MWp generation based incentive scheme of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India.

[20] Sree Kaderi Ambal Mills Private Limited has commissioned 9.6MW grid connected solar PV project at Sivaganga , Tamil Nadu.

An unused British-era airfield also exist near karaikudi which is named as chettinad airport and maintained by Tamil Nadu Animal Husbandry Department.

The district has three goods-handling railway stations, namely, Chettinad (Karaikudi), Melakonnakulam and Manamadurai Junction.

[22] Carved teak wood doors and frames, marble floors, granite pillars, Belgian mirrors and Italian tiles are the norms.

The annual urus festival marking the martyrdom day of the Panch shuhadas is commemorated on the 17th of the Islamic month of Jamadil Awwal every Hijri year.

are showcased for public where morden technologies are deployed for visitors to get a 3 Dimensional view of entire excavation site along with a 20 minutes short flim theatre which explains the history of Tamil diaspora.

As a result, the King assigned Thevar or Nalukottai a portion of land sufficient to maintain 1,000 armed men.

Afterwards, the King gave Thevar lands as dowry, free of taxation, sufficient to maintain 1,000 men.

Consequently, Thevan, the brother of the late Sundareswara Regunatha Sethupathy fled from Ramnad and sought refuge with the Rajah of Tanjore Tuljaji.

While Sasivarna Thevar was passing through the jungles of Kalayarkovil, he met a gnani (sage) named Sattappiah, who was performing Thapas (meditation) under a jam bool tree near a spring called 'Sivaganga'.

Satisfied with the good behaviour of Sasivarma Thevar and Kattaya Thevan, wanting to help them to regain the states again, the Rajah of Tanjore ordered his Dalavoy to go with a large army to invade Bhavani Sankaran.

Sasivarna Thevar and Kattaya Thevan at once proceeded to Ramnad with a large army furnished by the king of Tanjore.

In his reign, Muthu Vaduganatha Peria Oodaya Thevar granted commercial facilities to the Dutch only after the British rejected a similar offer, made to Colonel Heron.

In fact, the British' aim was to let the ruler of Sivaganga serve the Nawab, to pay tribute to him, and to dissuade them from establishing relations with foreign powers like the Dutch.

Rajah Muthu Vaduganatha Thevar, in anticipation of the invasion, erected barriers on the roads, dug trenches and established posts in the woods of Kalayarkoil.

As a result, the heroic activities shown in the battle field by Velu Nachiar is praised by the historians.

Her husband, Muthu Vaduganatha Periyavudaya Thevar, was killed in battle with the British and the forces of the Nawab of Arcot.

Nachiyar and her daughter left their kingdom and moved to Virupachi near Dindigul to live under the protection of Hyder Ali for eight years.

[26] During this period she formed an army and sought an alliance with Gopala Nayaker and Hyder Ali with the aim of attacking the British.

When Velu Nachiyar finds the place where the British stock their ammunition, she builds the first human bomb.

They are native of Kongulu street of Ramnad and neither belonged to the family of the ancient poligars, nor to their division of the caste.

One time, they issued an epoch-making Jumboo Deweepa proclamation to the people in the island of Jamboo, the peninsular South India, to fight against the British whether they were Hindus, Mussalamans or Christians.

However, the Marudhu Pandiyars attempt to dislodge the British East India Company from the region was ultimately unsuccessful, and they were defeated.