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{{For|Kavunji village|Dindigul district}}
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'''Kavunji''' (Mannavanur Panchayat) is a [[Panchayat#Village level .28Panchayat.29|Panchayat]] village of [[Terrace (agriculture)|terrace]] farmers at the far western end of the [[Western Ghats]] in [[Kodaikanal]] block of [[Dindigul district]], [[Tamil Nadu]] [[States and territories of India|state]], [[South India]], [[Postal Index Number|Pincode]] 624103. It is {{convert|35|km}} from Kodaikanal at: {{coord|10|12|26|N|77|20|25|E}}. [[Elevation]] is {{convert|1920|m}}. Kavunji is notable as a vegetable farming area.<ref name="Raju">{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/12/13/stories/2008121357600100.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081213102041/http://www.hindu.com/2008/12/13/stories/2008121357600100.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-12-13|title=Kavunji to adopt cluster farming|last=Raju|first=K.|date=2008-12-13|pages=front page|work=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=2009-06-21}}</ref>
[[File:AMS-Upper Palani Reserve Forest copy.jpg|thumb|300px|Upper Palani Reserve Forest showing Kavunji]]

==History==
There is a [[Tamil language]] inscription on a stone in the street believed to be dated in [[Shalivahana era|S.S.]] 1013 (CE 1091).<ref name="Sewall">{{cite book|last=Sewell|first=Robert |title=Lists of the Antiquarian Remains in the Presidency of Madras|publisher=Archaeological survey of India. |year=1882|edition=Reports.|series= New imperial series. |volume=vol. VII.|pages=72 'Ettur'|chapter=Palni Taluk and the Palni Hills|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pmEUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA286&dq=Kavunji}}</ref> The people of Kavunji believe that the inscription relates details and results of a controversy. The inscription measures {{convert|4|by|3|ft}}.<ref name="RAI">{{cite book|title=Indian antiquary|publisher=Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland |year=1909|volume=Item notes: v. 38|pages=54|url=https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=Kavunji%20inscription&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wp|isbn=0-89581-957-0}}</ref>



==Agriculture==
Kavunji will soon become a corporate village, due to introduction of a mega cluster project bringing {{convert|1197|acre|km2}} of irrigated, rain fed and wasteland under cultivation at an estimated cost of Rs.77.7 million. 1,497 farmers will benefit.

This cluster will produce potato, carrot, peas and beans in large scale adopting the latest techniques such as special [[precision farming]], uniform cropping pattern and [[fertigation|drip fertigation]] system.

The Department of [[Horticulture]] will do field preparation, install drip fertigation system, develop community nursery and supply inputs for cultivation of vegetables. The Agro Engineering Department will create water structures, including 19 ground-level reservoirs to store water drawn from pipes from the [[Konalaru river]] and provide pumping facility to irrigate the entire project area.<ref name=Raju/>

BalaCares Foundation Donated Drinking Water facilities to this village on 1999 with individual pipe connection for each and every street in kavunji village.

==Health==
The Sri Bala Medical Centre is a non-profit private hospital in Kavunji that concentrates on preventive medicine, maternal and child healthcare of the upper and lower hills villages poor people. It is supported by the Bala Care Foundation started in December 1998.<ref name="Murali">{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200803221119.htm |title=From Tennessee to Kavunji, on a rural healthcare mission |last=Murali |first=D. |author2=R.S. Murali |date=2008-03-22 |publisher=The Hindu |accessdate=2009-06-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081105125359/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200803221119.htm |archivedate=2008-11-05 }}</ref>

==Education==
There is a Primary School, Panchayat Union Middle School and Government High School in Kavunji.
Now kavunji also having higher secondary.

==Notes==
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==External links==
This is not an original Kavunji photo.
* [https://archive.today/20130124151045/http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/anLIg9cgOGDVwBBLjphocg Photograph of the village]

[[Category:Villages in Dindigul district]]

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