Hindu Pilgrimage Center Rameshwaram

Hindu Pilgrimage Center Rameshwaram

Rameswaram is a town and a second grade municipality in the Ramnathpuram district in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located on Pamban Island. It is situated in the Gulf of Mannar at the very tip of the Indian Peninsula. Island is, also known as Rameshvaram Island, is connected to mainland India by the Pamban Bridge. It is considered to be one of the holiest places in India to Hindus and part of the Char Dham pilgrimage. According to Hindu mythology, this is the place from where the Hindu god Rama built a bridge. Across the sea Lanka to rescue his wife Sita from her abductor or Ravan.The majority of population is involved in tourism related industry consisting of trade and services.

Distance from Rameswaram

Bangalore   : - 603 km

Triruvendrum  : - 401 km

Kanya kumari  : - 304 km

Chennai  : - 431 km

How to reach

By road: - The National highway NH 49 connects Madurai to Dhanushkodi, linking major towns like Manamadurai, Paramakkudi, and Ramanathapuram in the Ramanathapuram district.

By rail: - There are daily express trains connecting major cities in Tamil Nadu like Chennai, Madurai, Tricky and Coimbatore. There are weekly express trains connecting Coimbatore, Varanasi and Bhubaneswar.

Education in Rameshwaram

Ramanathapuram district has one of the lowest literacy rates in the state of Tamil Nadu and Rameswaram, following the district statistics has a lower literacy rate. There are a couple of Government high schools, one each for boys and girls. There are seven other schools namely, St. Joseph Higher Secondary School, Mandapam Panchayat Union 9 – School, Micro Matriculation School, Sri Sankara Vidhyalaya, Swami. Viveganantha Matriculation School, Holy Island Little Flower School and Kendriya Vidhyalaya School.Alagappa University Evening College are the only college present in the town [58] and all the nearest colleges are located in Ramanathapuram and Paramakudi.

Real estate in Rameshwaram

Being a pilgrimage town, the majority of the population is involved in tourism related industry consisting of trade and services. Service sector increased from 70% in 1971 to 98.78% in 2001, while the agricultural sector reduced from 23% in 1971 to 0.13% in 2001. [44] Apart from sweets offered to the deity and devotional articles like rosaries of Tulsa beads, toys and pictures of deities, other allied items are sold and are concentrated on North Car Street, Melarathaveethi, South Car Street, Keelarathaveethi and Sannathi Street. Rameswaram is an industrially backward town – there has been no demarcation for industrial land due to the pilgrim sanctity and ecological fragile geography. Being an island town, the traditional occupation was fishing, but due to poor returns and also due to troubles from Sri Lankan border forces, the people in fishing community have gradually shifted to other professions. Banks such as State Bank of India, Indian Bank and RDCC Bank have their branches in Rameswaram.

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