Thoothukudi is a port city, a municipal corporation and an industrial city in Thoothukudi district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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32 Facts About Thoothukudi
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Thoothukudi City serves as the headquarters of Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Limited.
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Thoothukudi is an "Emerging Energy and Industrial hub of South India".
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Thoothukudi is known as "Pearl City" due to the pearl fishing carried out in the town.
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Thoothukudi was settled by the Portuguese, Dutch and later by the British East India Company.
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Thoothukudi is part of the Pearl Fishery Coast, and is known for its pearl fishing and shipbuilding industries.
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Ancient town of Korkai near present-day Thoothukudi has been a centre for maritime trade and pearl fishery for more than 2000 years.
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Thoothukudi became the citadel of freedom struggles in the early of the 20th century.
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Major harbour of Thoothukudi is well known as a pearl diving and fishing centre.
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Thoothukudi was established as a Municipality in 1866 with Roche Victoria as its first chairman.
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Thoothukudi Corporation is divided into 60 wards after its expansion in the year 2011 and these wards are comprised in four zones—i.
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The minor port of the Thoothukudi has the distinction of being the intermediate port handling the highest traffic tonnage of over 1 million per annum.
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Red soils found on the southern side of the Thoothukudi town is composed quartz and variable quantities of fine red dry dust.
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The beach of Thoothukudi is featured with calm breeze and very low waves giving an image of a big river.
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Thoothukudi is located in South India, on the Gulf of Mannar, about 540 kilometres south of Chennai and 125 kilometres north of Kanyakumari.
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Thoothukudi was a port town during the period of Portuguese, Dutch and British in the 16th–19th centuries.
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Thoothukudi is the headquarters city of leading private sector bank Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Limited located.
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Thoothukudi has a State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu Industrial Estate and SIDCO's Industrial Estate which comprises several Small scale and Medium scale Industries.
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The Station Commander, Indian Coast Guard Station Thoothukudi is located at Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu under the operational and administrative control of the Commander, Coast Guard Region, Chennai.
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The Coast Guard Station Thoothukudi was commissioned on April 25,1991, by Vice Admiral SW Lakhar, NM, VSM and then Director General Coast Guard.
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Thoothukudi is the end point of the proposed Madurai-Thoothukudi Industrial Corridor.
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Thoothukudi has All India Radio Station which Carries AIR External Services for South Asia in English, Sinhala and Tamil.
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Thoothukudi macaroon is slightly different from European macaroons since it contains cashew as a main ingredient.
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Thoothukudi has an extensive transport network and is well-connected to other major cities by road, rail, air and sea.
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Thoothukudi being a harbour city has lot of container truck transport.
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Thoothukudi has direct daily rail connectivity to Chennai, Mysore, Coimbatore, Okha, Tirunelveli.
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Thoothukudi comes under the Thoothukudi assembly constituency and it elects a member to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly once every five years.
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Thoothukudi is the headquarters of the Thoothukudi region of TNEB that has four divisions.
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Thoothukudi comes under the Thoothukudi Telecom District of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, India's state-owned telecom and internet services provider.
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Thoothukudi is one of the few cities in India where BSNL's Caller Line Identification based internet service Netone is available.
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Thoothukudi is the only city from the state of Tamil Nadu to be listed as one of the Non-attainment cities by Ministry of Environment primarily on the basis of excess PM10 under the National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Program for the period 2011 - 2015.
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