<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Grand total </Td> <Td> 636.816 </Td> </Tr> <P> Puducherry Airport is situated at Lawspet . The Puducherry Government upgraded the airport in 2012 with a new terminal building and apron to accommodate larger aircraft . The new terminal building was inaugurated in January 2013 and scheduled flights to Bengaluru were launched . A MoU has been signed with Airports Authority of India for expansion of Puducherry Airport in two phases . Karaikal Airport is a planned greenfield airport and will be the India's first airport to be built entirely with private capital . </P> <P> Puducherry has a literacy rate of 86.55% . Pondicherry University is a central university located in Puducherry . Other colleges include Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute (Government of Puducherry), Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, National Institute of Technology, Puducherry, Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Pondicherry Engineering College, Mother Theresa Post Graduate and Research Institute of Health Sciences, Achariya College of Engineering & Technology ACET, Rajiv Gandhi College of Engineering and Technology, Rajiv Gandhi College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Christ institute of technology, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Engineering College, Shri Krishnaa College of Engineering & Technology, Sri Ganesh College Of Engineering and Technology and Sri Venkateshwaraa Medical College Hospital and Research Centre . </P> <Ul> <Li> Puducherry was the setting for Yann Martel's first third of his Booker Prize - winning novel Life of Pi (2001). A portion of the subsequent film adaptation of the same name was filmed there . </Li> <Li> Lee Langley's novel A House in Pondicherry (1996) was set there . </Li> <Li> Prince Pondicherry is an Indian character from Roald Dahl's children's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964). The prince orders Willy Wonka to build a palace of chocolate in India; the palace melts in the hot sun . </Li> <Li> The 9th season of the reality show Splisvilla on MTV was set in Puducherry . </Li> </Ul>

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