One of the cement plants of Ramco Cements Ltd is located in RR Nagar near Viudhunagar another one located at Alankulam of Sivakasi Taluk. Ginning factories, spinning mills, power loom and hand loom industries are also present in the district at Rajapalayam the second big weaving town in the state after Coimbatore. There are two trade centres (Godowns) in the District one in Virudhunagar and another in Rajapalayam. Virudhunagar is the main market for oil, chicory, coffee seeds, dry chillies and pulses. Virudhunagar district is leading in the country in the match industry, fireworks and printing, mostly concentrated in and around Sivakasi.
The Parliamentary Constituency number of Virudhunagar District is 34. This district has nine Town Panchayats – Seithur, Vathirairuppu, Chettiarpatti, Kariapatti, Mamsapuram, Sundarapandiam, Mallankinaru, S.Kodikulam and W.Pudupatti Totally there are 600 revenue villages in this district. The district comprises ten taluks: Aruppukkottai, Kariapatti, Rajapalayam, Sattur, Sivakasi, Srivilliputhur, Tiruchuli, Vembakottai, Virudhunagar and Watrap. The district is divided into three revenue divisions - Sivakasi, Sattur and Aruppukottai. The district is bounded by Sivagangai district and Madurai district on the north, Tenkasi district and Tuticorin District to the south and Ramanathapuram District on east Theni district to the northwest and Idukki district of Kerala to the west.
You can see Western Ghats at left hand side as brightly shaded region. There were a total of 950,158 workers, comprising 52,361 cultivators, 168,174 main agricultural labourers, 30,292 in house hold industries, 603,239 other workers, 96,092 marginal workers, 4,792 marginal cultivators, 40,528 marginal agricultural labourers, 5,006 marginal workers in household industries and 45,766 other marginal workers. The district had a total of 537,748 households.
The average literacy of the district was 72.02%, compared to the national average of 72.99%. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes accounted for 20.59% and 0.12% of the population, respectively. A total of 197,134 were under the age of six, constituting 100,827 males and 96,307 females. The sex-ratio was 1,007 females for every 1,000 males, much above the national average of 929, but down from 1,012 in 2001. According to 2011 census, Virudhunagar district had a population of 1,942,288, up from 1,751,301 in 2001, or about an 11% increase.
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