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4.22 Itrfreslructun,
The village is located near the main road between Villupuram and Th~ruvannamn.s~ and
is well connected to the neighboring villages and towns by road. It is about one and a
half hours drive from Pondicherry. While most of the houses are thatched huts, there
are a few semipucca and pucca houses. The village has adequate supply of water and
electricity. The sources of water supply are two tanks, two lakes and two bore wells.
Water is supplied to the houses from the two bore wells by pipelines from a water tank
Only few houses have a direct pipeline for water supply, Households which do not have
a pipe supply collect water from public tap or tanks, and store in containen. There is no
drainage system and most of the waste water is let out in the open. Toilet facilities are
available only in 4 or 5 houses, which have their own septic tanks. Medical care is
provided by the primary health center and the subcenter apart from two allopathic
private practitioners, and two faith healers. The village has a government school whlch
has primary, middle and high school sections. At the time of census there were 1,881
students studying in the school, out of which 1.031 were from Kedar and the rest from
the neighboring villages. The total number of teachers m the school was 33. The
student teacher ratio in the pnmary section was 52.4 and middle school was 56.4. The
village has a police stabon, a telephone exchange, a panchayat office, a -operative
society and a hostel for school boys belonging to the scheduled caste. There are also
four Hindu temples. Festivals are celebrated throughout the year.
4.2.3 People
The people of Kedar are generally simple, quiet by nature and are socioeconomicsllY
backward. Most of them are Hindus. The people are predominantly agricultural
laborers, weavers and cultivators. The others are artisans, petty shop owners or