Neyveli - Tourism

Tourism

The sight of the huge construction cranes digging dirt to unearth lignite is a sight worth watching. Moreover it is a good place for tourism, with tourist interests being the Afforestaion complex and mining sites. However permission to visit these places is selective.

Neyveli has a beautiful eco-friendly park which ranks in the international level, named as "Nehru Park" in Block 8. The "Main Bazaar" located in the heart of the township in Block 12 is the favorite hangout place for children and adult alike. All kinds of commodities are available in these shops for the welfare of Neyvelians. Sandwiched between the buzzing shops is "The Golden Jubilee Park" which was constructed in remembrance of 50 years after the beginning of NLC. It is a children's and adult's park. Many tourists come during their vacations.

The Natarajar Temple has the largest Panchaloha (made up of five metals/ alloys) idol and is the first in Asia. Many natural sceneries are there to visit and it will be worth spending some time here.

Also the Book Fair is the yearly event conducted by the NLC from 1998,with around 200 publishers taking part in the event. Many other related events are conducted like felicitating writers, book discussions, debates, Dramas etc., during the 10 day course of the book fair which usually happens in the months of June to August. Neyveli Book Fair also consists of large number of interesting games, eatables which attracts children to a greater extent. The 16th Neyveli Book fair-2013 is from 5th July 2013 to 14th July 2013, 10.00 a.m. to 9.00 p.m. on all days at Book Fair Grounds,Block-11.

Safety Week is a week long event conducted by various departments of the NLC, exhibiting the best practices of Safety to be followed in workplace and NLC also encourages its school students to actively participate in preparing the models for its "SAFETY WEEK CELEBRATIONS" by giving them prizes and certificates for the best display.

Here there is a Nata raja Temple is located near central bus stand, the Lord nataraja statue is 12 feet (3.7 m) in height weighing of more than 1.25 tonnes and also a Sivagamasundari statue is also in height of 7 feet (2.1 m) and weighs .5 tons kept in a big hall which is also a dynamandapam. Another beauty of this temple is 63 Nayanmars are lively looking in statues. A hall lies under a Nagalinga tree.

There is a Devara temple related to Lord Nataraja is Melakadambur is located at about 30 km from here. By road you should take sethiathope-kattumannarkoil- route. From Kattumannarkoil melakadambur is at about 6 km distance. Here Lord nataraja lies in a panchaloga vigraha as well as in hard granite stone dating back to Kulothunga Chola period. And a rare idol of Lord shiva dancing on a bull with ten hands is open for devotees darshan only on pradosha days from 4:30-6:00 pm.

Neyveli is notable for its "Republic Day" and "Independence Day" celebrations which is conducted in Bharathi Stadium. Many Schools actively participate in Dance Competitions, parade, and other sports. Even the students of Neyveli who achieved in State level, National and International level sports competitions are encouraged by NLC by giving prizes during these celebrations.

Neyveli provides benefit for its students as well as readers by providing an excellent "Library" in the midst of the township to gain enormous knowledge. Thousands of books dealing different topics, daily newspaper, magazines, all kinds of journals and reference books are available in the library which is governed by NLC.

NLC also issues its book called "BROWN COAL" to its employees to share its important events and also publishes some important information's.It also portrays about achievers of NLC who are in all walks of sports and education.