Perundurai taluk is a taluk of Erode district

Erode District

Erode District is a western district of the state of Tamil Nadu, India, with Erode as its headquarters. Until the year 1996, Erode district was called as Periyar District....

 of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...

. The headquarters of the taluk is the town of Perundurai

Perundurai

Perundurai is a Town Panchayat and taluk in Erode district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located on National Highway 47, which bye-passes the city of Erode from here, between Salem and Coimbatore....

Population

According to the 2001 census, the taluk of Perundurai had a population of 326,782 with 165,959 males and 160,823 females. There were 969 women for every 1000 men. The taluk had a literacy rate of 64.77. The total number of households was 89,763.