Thervoy Kandigai is located at Gummudipoondi taluk of Thiruvallur district in Tamil Nadu state. It is 73 kms North of Chennai city, and 23 kilometer from the Kaverapettai junction of the Nellore Highway (NH5). It is 8 kilometers from the state High Way 52 towards Sakthiyavedu. Under Therovy Kandigai panchayat there are six villages namely: Therovy, Thervoy Colony, Dr Ambedkar Nagar, Villiyar (schedule tribe), Thervoy Kandigai (dalit village) and Thirvalluvar Nagar.
The ongoing SIPCOT Industrial Park is hosted in Thervoy Kandigai on 1127 acres of land which hosts Thondaiman Lake, Mekkal Poromboke[1] land (actually a village forest land under the joint forest management scheme- See Annexure 1), Dr Ambedkar Nagar and village burial ground. The 1127 acres acts as a catchment area feeding several lakes and ponds irrigating agricultural land, providing water for drinking, livestock and in-land fisheries for 25 villages and hamlets including the six villages mentioned above. Agriculture and animal husbandry is the mainstay of all these villages, and people harvest two to three crops per year.
Thervoy Kandigai alone has a population of 2667, an a sex ratio of 1002, which is likely to be affected if agriculture declines. Dalits constitute two thirds of Thervoy Kandigai
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