Nearby towns are served by rail and air. Nearby villages include Oddaneri, SN Palayam, Madandakuppam, Gollapalli, Paramasathu, Melpadi, and Keeraisathu. There are several local temples and shrines. Nearby train stationChittoor railway station, Andhra Pradesh. Ponnai is a panjayat for around 18 village's in Tamil Nadu. The entrance of Ponnai is greeted by a river that must be crossed via a bridge to enter Ponnai. It is surrounded by temples. One of the famous places to visit near Ponnai is Vallimalai; according to Vallimalai, it is a place where Valli, the daughter of Lord Vishnu and Lakshmi was born. Raised up by the chief of the tribe, Valli grew up to be a beautiful damsel. Narada Muni recounted about Valli with Muruga, thereby Muruga went to woo the damsel Valli. After several vain attempts and finally with Ganesha's help, Valli and Muruga are united. They elope from Vallimalai and settle down at Thirutthani which is 38 km from Ponnai. Another important place to visit near Ponnai is Thengal Ashram The weather is a bit hot around these places, the best time of the year to visit would be from October to January, buses frequent these places on a daily basis and this place is 38 km from Vellore where the famous CMC hospital is situated, people in and around Ponnai are very friendly. In ponnai very old and famous G.B.H.S school and G.G.H.S school, where thousands of doctors and engineers from this school.
Around
Swarna Vinayagar and Navagra's Temple is 3 km from Ponnai main bus stand. The village name is called oddaneri, from ponnai bus stand auto's are available frequently. This is very famous Temple since 1985.
Politics
The Katpadi assembly constituency is part of the Arakkonam. Ponnai comes under Katpadi Taluka MLA of katpadi is Duraimurugan DMK and MP of Arakkonam is
Ponnai comprises more than 18+ villages. Head Town is Ponnai. Frequent buses are available to Vellore, Tiruttani, Arcot, Sholinghur and Chittoor Chennai, Bangalore, Tirupathi, Kanchipuram, Tambaram and Chengalpattu are occasional. The nearest railway stations are Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh and Vellore Katpadi Junction in Tamil Nadu. The nearest marine port is Chennai and nearest airports are Tirupathi in Andhra Pradesh, Chennai in Tamil Nadu and Vellore Airport National.
