The principal crops are rice, sugarcane, cotton, and peanuts. This in turn helps in the setting up of important industries like food processing, manufacturing of electrical components and appliances, textiles, paper etc. The Puducherry is divided into 300 small villages and hamlets.

The fertile Kaveri River delta forms an important part of the region, where rice is mainly harvested. Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu are the local languages of the region. Other languages are Urdu, French, Kannada, Hindi, Gujarati, English, and Marathi.

Religious composition of the town is Hindu 83.39%, Muslim 4.97%, Christian 10.88%, Sikh 0.03%, Buddhist 0.09%, Jain 0.16%, others 0.49% according to census 2011.

Leather, woodcraft, pottery, metalcraft and other industries are industries, which were set up at the time of French rule and are continuing their course even today. The spirit and enthusiasm holding Puducherry together is the unity in diversity, the diversity of culture, tradition, fusion, festivals, ambience, and others. The localities are indulged in practices of making art, dining mats, candles, incense sticks, paintings, batik paintings on clothes, etc. The Tamil and the French culture coexist within the geographical boundaries together. The Architecture of the town is an interesting subject to note implicitly and explicitly.

‘Aurobindo Ashram‘ of the city is famous in the world for Yoga, Healing and Spirituality. Traditional foods of the region are Kadugu Yerra, Quiche and Palpayasam which is also a delight to the taste buds. The traditional Dance form is Garage for the region

The major festivals of the town are,

Haryana Government Schemes

• Maasi Magam
• Villianur Temple Car Festival
• Bastille Day
• Fete De Pondicherry
• Sri Aurobindo’s Birth Anniversary
• Masquerade Festival (Mask Festival)
• International Yoga Festival
• Thai Pongal

The traditional Musical Instrument is Arumukhanam. Traditional Dressing attire for women of the region is saris, blouse and long skirt. While men prefer dhoti and kurta/shirt.

Pilgrimages centres of the town

• Kamatchiamman Koil
• Kanniga Parameswari Temple
• Manakula Vinayagar Temple
• Sri Gokilambal Thirukameswar Temple
• Sri Varadaraja Perumal Temple
• Edhapureeswarar Temple
• Meeran Mosque
• Darga Of Masthan Saheb.

Small and Medium Scale Industries

Products like wood subsidiaries, leather, rubber and plastic, metal, paper, cotton, food and other miscellaneous items are manufactured and produced in the territory.

Agriculture and Fishing

Rice, pulses, sugarcane, coconuts, and cotton are a few varieties of crops grown to employ more than 50% of the population. The union territory has a fifty km long coastline ensuring good opportunities for fishing. This becomes the safest and self employing kind of livelihood opportunity.

Electronic manufacturing

Globally, electronics is the largest and quickest growing industry. The hardware base in the country can be achieved via a strong software base in today’s time, to which this sector is directly catering. So this becomes an important sector in the wheels of development.

Marine Products

Puducherry is well known for its long coast. The towns of Puducherry, Karaikal, Yanam in the bank of the Bay of Bengal and Mahe in the Arabian Sea provides ample opportunities for marine activities. There is a huge scope for investments in packaged products, marine processing plants, preservation, processing and export of coastal fish. New entrants can enter the business via these or any new ways too.

Agro & Food Processing Industries

Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam are a variety of areas that allow crops to grow because of the climatic and soil nutrients. The Government intends to bring investment in the food processing industry by promoting primary and secondary industries for processing of a variety of crops that are generally grown in the area itself.

Pharmaceutical Manufacturers

Puducherry has a range of pharmaceutical industries that formulate, make, and commercialize medicine certified for consumption as medicinal drugs. Pharmaceutical corporations in Puducherry cover qualitative medical equipment, which is subjected to policies and rules of patenting, examining and assuring efficacy and merchandising, according to the public sector.

Automobile Industry

Automobile Industry has been rising as an ever-growing sector considering the market potential. This sector has been particularly recognized as a sector having potential for making employment on an oversized scale.

IT AND ITES

IT software and services have positioned India on the world map. The advent of the web and Internet-enabled services has further multiplied the possibility to be the world leaders and grow exponentially, with better solutions. The strategic drivers are the commitment of the govt. to make assets and investments for a long term basis thus employing human resources in the right quantity and providing quality to individuals and the services too.

Solar power and Renewable energy products

Though Puducherry is a small Union Territory, it's appropriate for power generation by solar & alternative means. The government of Puducherry would encourage solar panels, electronic merchandise for support in the energy reserves of the territory.

Plastic industries

Aerospace, medical, green homes, defence, non-conventional energy, and import substitutes are a few products requirements in this sector. Though plastics are harmful to the ecosystem and possess various threats to the environment, still the products have usability. Alternatives and better approaches are still the practices, for which relevant information and technique is required.