Surapattu
Surapet (alias Surapattu, Surapedu) is a neighbourhood of Chennai, India. It is a residential locality situated in North west Chennai .Surapet area comes under Madhavaram taluk , Chennai District of Chennai Corporation. Surapet is surrounded by areas namely, Puzhal in North, kolathur in east, puthagaram in South, Puzhal lake in west.
Surapet
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Neighbourhood | |
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| Coordinates: 13°08′36.4″N 80°11′28.2″E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Tamil Nadu |
| District | Chennai district |
| Metro | Chennai |
| Division | North Chennai |
| Chennai Corporation Zone | III |
| Chennai Corporation Ward | 24 |
| Government | |
| • Body | Greater Chennai Corporation |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Tamil |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 600066 |
| Vehicle registration | TN-05 TN-18 |
| Neibourhoods | Puzhal, Kolathur, Korattur, Ambathur |
| Website | https://chennaicorporation.gov.in |
Locality and neighbourhoods
The neighbourhoods of Surapet consist of Anna Nagar, Villivakkam, Puzhal, Ambathur, Retteri junction, Kolathur, Lakshmipuram, Senthil Nagar, Perambur, Puthagaram, Madhavaram, vinayagapuram, and kadhirvedu It is close to the Grand North Trunk (GNT) road
Transportation
Chennai Metro
The proposed second phase of the chennai metro has three lines. Third line from Madhavaram milk colony to sholinganallur. In that, the proposed Retteri Metro Station and Kolathur Metro Station is 3.5 km away from surapet bus stand.
Railway
The nearest Railway Station is korattur Railway Station it is 5 Km away from surapet. Chennai egmore railway station and Chennai Central Railway Station are the two main railway terminals in chennai which are 14 km away from Surapet.
Roads
With the Ambathur Redhills maim road/Surapet main road made the surapet very easy to accessible from puzhal and Ambathur. With the perambur redhills road made easy to accessible from Retteri.GNT road is 3 km away from surapet. With the watercanel road, Inner ring road is 3.5 km away from surapet.
Chennai mofussil bus terminal in Koyambedu is 10km away, Madhavaram bus Terminal is 4km away.
Educational Institutions
- Velammal Matriculation School
- Velammal Engineering College
- Velammal Vidhyashram
- Velammal New-gen School
- Velammal Global School
- Omayal Achi College of Nursing
- Darwin Public School
- Godson Matriculation School
History of Surapet
This area, once a separate panchayat that comes under Puzhal Panchayat, now comes under Chennai corporation, numbered as "24th ward" and it belongs to the Madhavaram constituency.
About 200 years ago people from a village of same name Surapet near Sholavaram migrated to this village due to poverty in their home place and named the same name to this village also.
Included in Chennai District
On 15 June 2011, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister of India to expand the city limits of Chennai by which the Surapet would come under the new scheme.
Since 2011, it is part of Chennai Corporation as Zone 3 and 24th ward.
Surapet was attached to the Chennai Corporation in 2011, aiding in its development.