AZAD ROAD to Elangakurichy Road was first laid by N.S.M.Pichai Mohamed Ravuthar of Elangakurichy who was a business tycoon and a famous congress personality.he named this road in the Memory of Moulana Abul kalam azad. the road was inaugrated in 1955.Inauguration function was headed by Gulam mohamed basha former collector of tiruchirappalli district and the road was inaugurated by former chief minister of tamilnadu k.kamaraj.
History
During the end of the 20th century, some villagers from neighbourhood they settled here permanently.
Geography and Climate of village
Geography
AZAD ROAD is located at Coordinates: 10°33'57"N 78°19'52"E. It has an average elevation of 173 metres.
Climate
The climate of AZAD ROAD is tropical in nature with little variation in summer and wintertemperatures. While April–June is the hottest summer period with the temperature rising up to the 38 °C mark, November–February is the coolest winter period with temperature hovering around 18 °C, making the climate quite pleasant. Surprisingly, AZAD ROAD gets all its rains from the North-east Monsoons between October and December.
Culture
AZAD ROAD has multi-generational patriarchal joint families, although nuclear families are becoming common in the 21st century. An overwhelming of villagers have their marriagesarranged by their parents and other respected family members, with the consent of the bride and groom. Marriage is thought to be for life, and the divorce rate is extremely very low. Child marriage is not followed in Azad road. Popular styles of dress include draped garments such as sari, thavani for women and vesti, lungi for men; in addition, stitched clothes such as chudidar for women and European-style trousers and shirts for men, are also popular.
Cuisine
The staple foods in the village are rice and rice product. Early morning after getting from sleep, they will drinkdairy product like fresh milk tea. They will take breakfast like, Idly, Dosai, appam, uthappam, Idiyappam, paniyaram, puri etc. For Lunch normally rice with any anam and poriyal will be there. Anam means masal or mixture of eatable product with water. Different type of anam are kari anam, mean anam, vendaika anam, pavaka anam, kaikari anam, maamdi anam, manja thanni, pulisaru, sambar, rasam, Vatha Kulambu etc. For Dinner normally villagers cook extra food in lunch, if any shortage in eating they will cook dosai instant food.
Agriculture
The village produces coconuts, groundnuts, mango, paddy rice, tomato and other vegetables. A lot of farms are irrigated from wells, as well as rain water irrigation. Rain water irrigation is used for the groundnut fields.
Places of Worship
With in one KM, lot of temples and Churches available but most famous and ancient Hindu Temple is located opp to Bus Stop.
Masjid is located within 2–3 km from Village.
Education
SAHAYA ANNAI N&P
Government primary school
Transport
The village is well connected to other parts of Trichy and Tamil Nadu through National Highway 45 and by the railway network. This NH-45 connects Trichy and Dindigul. Transport is provided by the State ownedTamil Nadu State Transport Corporation, and private bus transport, directly connects total Tamil Nadu.
