Google Map Of Sivakasi

Sivakasi is a tehsil in the Virudhunagar district of Tamilnadu State, which is known for its Lithowork printing units, producing large varieties of Calendars, match boxes and fireworks, exported to all the places within the country and abroad having as much as 70% of the market share in these products, while this town is also the Taluk head-quarter , Sivakasi town located in the Madurai Tenkasi Road in the National highway No 218, at a distance of 65 km. from Madurai town, the famous temple City of Tamilnadu.

Sivakasi tehsils HQ town Sivakasi is basically an industrial town, with a few reputed educational institutes established here focussed on printing technology, besides enjoying a heritage of being a town established by Harikesari Parakkrama Pandian of Madurai dynasty during 15th Century AD and was considered part of Madurai kingdom those days.

To reach Sivakasi, there are direct Tamilnadu State transport buses and a number of private buses available from Chennai, Tiruchirappalli, Madurai, and other important places of the State and also from Kerala , while Madurai International Airport is just about 65 km away from Sivakasi, train connection in the Virudhunagar Shenkottah section of Southern Railways, number of express trains stopping here.