Kuppam Factoids
About Kuppam
Location/Geography: Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh State, India, about 105 kms by rail from Bangalore.
Kuppam town latitude: 12′ 45″ north, Longitude 78′ 20″ east.
Events
• The first export of granite (black granite) from India dates back to 1925 from Kuppam to the U.K., for use as a tombstone.
• The first i-community was established at Kuppam in Feb 2002.
People:
• 300,000: 62,400 households in 5 mandals – 612 habitations
Total area:
• 123,325 hectares: 63,000 hectares of cultivable land (50.4%) and 41,987 hectares under forest area (33.7%)
Infrastructure:
• 50 health centers, 455 schools, 1engineering college, medical college and teaching hospital, market yard, cell phone connectivity
• Kuppam is on the main Bangalore-Chennai railway route about 105 kms from Bangalore - historically a backward and neglected area
Literacy Rate: 61%
Primary occupation: Agriculture
Languages spoken: Telugu, Tamil, Kannada
Set at the confluence of the sates of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu & A.P
Source: KADA , Office of the Collectorate, Chittoor, Geological Survey of India
