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Thondamuthur,is situated
amidst,the SCENIC SPLENDOR
of the Siruvani Hills,12kms away from Coimbatore,South India,with a
landscape surrounded by beautiful, hills,waterfalls,greenpastures,and rivulets,providing the most congenial atmosphere
for agriculture.
This club
was started to serve the rural people,by joining hands with its parent Rotary and Innerwheel clubs,and is still pioneering
its efforts till today with its service since '91.
It has produced THREE cabinet members,so far and is on its verge to
excel in its projects in the mere future.
ABOUT COIMBATORE
Coimbatore
is the second largest city in Tamil Nadu. As it is exposed to the Palghat gap of Western Ghats it enjoys a salubrious climate,
this has attracted a large number of textile mills to this region. For the same reason the city is called 'poor man's Ooty'.
There are more than 25,000 small, medium, large and tiny industries and textile mills. No wonder it is rightly called
the Manchester of South India. Coimbatore is also famous for the manufacture of motor pump sets and varied engineering goods,
due to which it has earned the title " Detroit of the South".
Kongunad, the capital of a cluster of villages, was
captured by Karikala Cholan, the legendary Chola King, before it passed through the hands of several Hindu dynasties and kingdoms.
It includes the Rastrskutas, Chalukyas, Pandyas, Vijayanagar, Madurai and Mysore kings, before finally passing into the hands
of the British who gave its present name - Coimbatore
This small agricultural town has grown into a bustling modern
industrial city, because of the farmers of the region, many of whom, generations ago, fleeing from invaders in their native
Andhra, came with dreams to settle on this land, which they came to love as their own.
They introduced cotton growing
which was ideally suited to the black soil of Coimbatore. By dint of hard work, they carved a niche for themselves in this
otherwise harsh land. With the passage of time came elaborate irrigation schemes and the harnessing of hydroelectric power
which led to the development in this area as one of South India's finest agrarian economies where millets, paddy, cotton,
tea, oilseeds, betelnut, turmeric, coffee and tobacco were cultivated. The GOUNDERS, TAMIL FARMERS who made their living by
tilling the soil and KANNADA speaking AGRICULTURISTS, the OKKALIGARS and the Lingayats, who followed Tippu Sultan into the
region ALSO PLAYED SIGNIFICANT ROLES IN THE AGRICULTURAL SUCCESS OF COIMBATORE.
Coimbatore, the entrepreneur's dream,
remains a city where age-old customs survive, where family bonds are strong and where fusion of tradition and modernity remain
the secret of the city's success.
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