 The town has a literacy rate of about 69%, which is 10% higher than the national average; male literacy is 77% and female literacy is 61%.From 2015 Chetpet became a Taluka under Tiruvannamalai District, Tamil Nadu.Chetpet is a Selection Grade Town Panchayat, a small town under 20,000 or 25,000 inhabitants, in the district of Tiruvannamalai in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.