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Kuttippuram is a town and a block headquarters, which is situated in the Tirur Taluk, Malappuram district of Kerala state, India. The town is located 34 kilometres south-west of Malappuram. The Bharathappuzha river flows through Kuttippuram. According to the last Census of India conducted in 2011, Kuttippuram forms a portion of the Malappuram metropolitan area.
History
Tirunavaya, the centre of medieval Mamankam festival, and Athavanad, which was the centre of Azhvanchery Thamprakkal, lie adjacent to Kuttippuram.[1]
Kuttippuram, on the northern bank of the river Bharathappuzha, was ruled by the Zamorin of Calicut during the middle ages.[2] Kuttippuram railway station is one of the oldest railway stations in Kerala. The second railway line in Kerala was laid from Tirur to Kuttippuram in 1861, as an extension of the first line laid from Tirur to Beypore in the same year.[3] In the 1940s, several national leaders including C. Rajagopalachari, M. Bhaktavatsalam, and Yakkob Hassan has visited Kuttippuram.[2] Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, a former president of India, has also visited here.[2] The ashes of Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Lal Bahadur Shastri, were deposited in Kerala between Tirunavaya, Kuttippuram, and Thavanur, on the bank of the river Bharathappuzha.[1][4]
The Kuttippuram bridge, built-in 1953, is one of the famous bridges in Kerala. The poem Kuttippuram Palam, describing the beauty of Bharathappuzha River at the sandy riverbank of Kuttippuram, was written by the poet Edasseri Govindan Nair.[5][6] Kuttippuram was also a constituency to the Kerala Legislative Assembly from 1957 to 2011, which was then replaced by Kottakkal constituency.[7]
Geography
Kuttippuram is located at Template:Coord.[8] It has an average elevation of Template:Convert.
Industries
Kuttippuram is home to some of the major public sector industries in the state.[9] The municipal town of Valanchery is situated adjacent to Kuttippuram Grama Panchayat. There is a demand to upgrade Kuttippuram Grama Panchayat into a municipality.
- The Kerala State Detergents and Chemicals Ltd. has its headquarters at Kuttippuram.[10]
- The KELTRON (Kerala State Electronics Development Corporation) Electro Ceramics (KELCERA) is located here.[11]
- A KELTRON tool room is also located here.[9]
Educational institutions
College(s)
- MES College of Engineering, opened in 1994, is the first and oldest self-financing engineering college in Kerala.[12]
- KMCT College Kuttippuram[12]
School(s)
Connectivity
- Railway Station: The nearest major railway station at Tirur is just Template:Convert away from the town. Almost every train stops here. Kuttippuram is also home to two minor railway stations, Kuttippuram railway station opened in 1861,[3] which is also one of the oldest stations in the state, and Perassannur railway station.
- Road: Kuttippuram is well connected to the other cities by road, National Highway-66 passes through the town. NH-66 connects Kuttippuram with the cities of Kozhikode and Kochi. The SH 69 (Thrissur-Kuttippuram State Highway) connects Kuttippuram with Thrissur city. The Kuttippuram bridge is one of the famous bridges in Kerala, which was built in 1953, to connect Kozhikode with Kochi through National Highway-66.[13] There are regular buses plying to other cities including Malappuram, Kozhikode, Kochi, Thrissur, and Coimbatore. There are a few private buses offering over night journeys to Bangalore, Trivandrum, and Coimbatore.
- Nearest Airport: The Karipur International Airport is approximately Template:Convert away.
Kuttippuram Block
Template:Main article Template:Panorama Kuttippuram Block Panchayat is the block-level administrative body responsible for the administration of the following Gram panchayats:
- Kuttippuram
- Edayur
- Irimbiliyam
- Marakkara
- Athavanad
- Kalpakanchery
Valanchery municipality shares its boundary with Kuttippuram town, which was a Gram panchayat in Kuttippuram block until 2015.
Notable people
- Edasseri Govindan Nair - Poet
- Iqbal Kuttippuram - Screenwriter
- Kuttippuram Kesavan Nair - Poet
- M. T. Vasudevan Nair - Malayalam writer (Born at Kudallur, just opposite to Kuttippuram, through Bharathappuzha River)
See also
- Kuttippuram (State Assembly constituency)
- Kuttippuram bridge
- Kuttippuram railway station
- Kuttippuram Block Panchayat
- Valanchery
- Tirunavaya
- Athavanad
- Thavanur
- Kudallur
- Marakkara
- Triprangode
- Edayoor
- Irimbiliyam
- Kumbidi
- Anakkara
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kerala Charitram{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. DC Books(January 2007). ISBN 9788126415885
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The official website of Kuttippuram Grama Panchayat. lsgkerala.in. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 ആ ചൂളംവിളി പിന്നെയും പിന്നെയും.... Mathrubhumi(17 June 2019). Retrieved 19 December 2020.
- ↑ അമ്പതിന്റെ നിറവില് മലപ്പുറം; മലപ്പുറത്തിന്റെ മാനവിക മഹാപൈതൃകം. Mathrubhumi(17 June 2019). Retrieved 21 February 2021.
- ↑ 64ന്റെ നിറവില് ഇടശ്ശേരിയുടെ 'കുറ്റിപ്പുറം പാലം'. Mathrubhumi(21 February 2018). Retrieved 24 January 2021.
- ↑ The river sutra. The Hindu(27 September 2018). Retrieved 24 January 2021.
- ↑ Constituencies (1976-2008). eci.gov.in.
- ↑ Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Kuttippuram
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Brief Industrial Profile of Malappuram District 2017-18. msmedithrissur.gov.in.
- ↑ Kerala State Detergents and Chemicals Limited. The Economic Times. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ↑ KELCERA. keltronelcera. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Kuttippuram PS. Kerala police. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ↑ കുറ്റിപ്പുറം പാലത്തിന്റെ ശില്പി കെവി അബ്ദുള് അസീസ് നിര്യാതനായി, V. P., Nisar. Malayalam One India(2018-01-31). Retrieved 2021-01-24.