Kallakudy

Kallakudy dalmiapuram
town panchayat
Kallakudy Location in Tamil Nadu, India
Coordinates: 10°58′36″N 78°57′9″E / 10.97667°N 78.95250°ECoordinates: 10°58′36″N 78°57′9″E / 10.97667°N 78.95250°E
Country	India
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Tiruchirapalli
Languages
• Official	Tamil
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN	621651,621652
Vehicle registration	TN-48
Coastline	0 kilometres (0 mi)
Nearest city	Trichy
Lok Sabha constituency	perambalur

Kallakudi or Dalmiapuram is a small township in the Tiruchirapalli district of Tamil Nadu in India. It is located at a distance of 40 km from Tiruchirapalli Junction. This is the place which turned the career of Karunanidhi, the former chief minister of Tamil Nadu.

Dalmiapuram is the hometown of Dalmia Cements. This region is rich in limestone deposits. Dalmia Cements was the largest cement plant in Asia at its completion. It has a greenish colony called Dalmiapuram. Educational institutions like Vivekananda matriculation school and Dalmia higher secondary school serves the local population here. Students do their higher education mostly in Trichy. Vadugerpet Matha Temple is famous here. There is a Catholic church dedicated to Saint Xavier, whose body is still kept at Goa. In the same name there is a middle school started in 1914. this was the first school in this area for the poor students. Still very poor students only come to this school. the catholic population is about four thousand. since 1968 this church is administered as a separate parish church.