Medical wholesale supply for Cuddalore

• Cyclone and flood belts by taluk: the plan puts the coastal taluks of Cuddalore, Kurinjipadi, Bhuvanagiri and Chidambaram in the heavy wind and cyclone zone and the other six taluks in the flood-prone zone. cdn.s3waas.gov.in.
• Recent storms: Nisha (landfall in the district on 26 November 2008), Thane (29 and 30 December 2011, roads closed across nearly every area for a week), Nivar (night of 25 to 26 November 2020, 441 relief camps) and Fengal (1 to 2 December 2024, Pennaiyar flood, 154,875 evacuated). cdn.s3waas.gov.in.
• Flood-season medicines: a community-level passage of the plan says a stockpile of halogen tablets, ORS and basic medicines is to be kept at appropriate points in the village through the flood season (page 18), and the portal says the District Disaster Management Authority meets each August or September before the monsoon. After Fengal, health-unit medical camps recorded 6,565 acute respiratory infection cases, against 369 fever cases and 11 acute diarrhoeal cases, among 40,129 attendances. cdn.s3waas.gov.in.
• Heat: May and June are the hottest months (average 37 C in the plan; highest recorded 40.3 C in June on the portal), and January is the coolest. cuddalore.nic.in.
• Visitors and pilgrimage: 1,733,540 tourist arrivals recorded in 2022; Chidambaram's Natarajar temple has an annual festival calendar (Arudhra Darshan and the Natyanjali dance festival from Mahashivratri per the state tourism blog; no festival month is stated because only Wikipedia gives them), and the district's tourist places include Silver Beach, Pichavaram and Veeranam Lake. tamilnadutourism.tn.gov.in.

NLC India Limited, a public sector enterprise, mines lignite and generates power at Neyveli. The district plan also lists EID Parry at Nellikuppam and the MRK Co-operative Sugar Mill at Sethiathope among its industries, names the SIPCOT park at Cuddalore Old Town and a SIDCO estate at Semmandalam as industrial parks, and carries a chapter on chemical hazard management in the SIPCOT industries. Paddy is the major crop on about 120,000 hectares, and the plan says the district contributes significantly to the state's cashew and jackfruit output.

Rain here follows a clear calendar. The district plan says the north-east monsoon, October to December, brings 72 percent of the year's rain. Tamil Nadu Agricultural University gives normals of 702 mm for October to December and 360 mm for June to September, while an older ICAR-CRIDA plan gives 651.0 mm and 410.0 mm; the numbers differ but the north-east season is the larger in both. The plan puts four coastal taluks, Cuddalore, Kurinjipadi, Bhuvanagiri and Chidambaram, in the heavy wind and cyclone zone and the other six in the flood-prone zone.

The plan's history gives the shape of a bad season. Cyclone Nisha made landfall in the district on 26 November 2008. Cyclone Thane struck on 29 and 30 December 2011, and the plan says roads stayed closed across nearly every area of the district for a week, with food and other basic supplies unable to reach affected people. Cyclone Nivar crossed the coast near Puducherry on the night of 25 to 26 November 2020, with 441 relief camps opened. During Fengal the Pennaiyar carried 254,480 cusecs on 2 December 2024 against a stated capacity of 1.80 lakh, and 154,875 people were moved out of low-lying areas.