Sankari

Sankagiri or Sankari is a panchayat town in Salem locale in the Indian province of Tamil Nadu. It is arranged on the National Highway 47, on the Coimbatore - Salem area. In sangam age, Sankagiri was goes under Mazhanadu. It was additionally called as Kundrathur. Sankagiri Fort was worked in the fifteenth century by the Vijayanagar Empire. It was later under the control of Dheeran Chinnamalai and Tippu Sultan before the British attached it to their domain.

Dheeran Chinnamalai was hanged by the British at Sankagiri Fort on 31 July 1805. The fortress later filled in as a British assessment storeroom for Kongu Nadu and the town created around it. Sankagiri, articulated as San-ka-giri in Tamil. Sangu implies conch and Giri implies slope. The economy of the town was transcendently subject to horticulture. Over the previous decade, truck, bond and steel enterprises have created around the town adding to the economy.

There is a concrete plant of the eminent India Cements Limited which has a generation limit of 2000T/day and recently lorry industry in sankagiri is quick getting with trichengode and namakkal, places famous for truck industry in the nation. Around Sankari numerous Schools are there. Presently the instruction and the education rate of the general population around are expanding quickly.