Kuthuparamba is a town and a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the Kannur district, state of

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. It is about 24 km south east of

Kannur Kannur (), formerly known in English as Cannanore, is a city and a municipal corporation in the state of Kerala, India. It is the administrative headquarters of the Kannur district and situated north of the major port city and commercial hu ...

and 14 km east of

Thalassery Thalassery (), formerly Tellicherry, is a municipality, Commercial City on the Malabar Coast in Kannur district, in the state of Kerala, India, bordered by the districts of Mahé (Pondicherry), Kozhikode, Wayanad, Kasaragod and Kodagu (Karna ...

History

Kuthuparamba was part of Kottayam dynasty under the reign of

Pazhassi Raja Pazhassi Raja () (3 January 1753 – 30 November 1805) was known as Kerala Varma and was also known as Cotiote Rajah and Pychy Rajah. He was a warrior Hindu prince and de facto head of the kingdom of Kottayam, otherwise known as Cotiote, in ...

in the midievel period. Since the British captured Kuthuparamba area, the area fell under British rule was formed as

Kottayam Kottayam () is a municipal town in the Indian state of Kerala. Flanked by the Western Ghats on the east and the Vembanad Lake and paddy fields of Kuttanad on the west. It is the district headquarters of Kottayam district, located in south- ...

taluk.

–

Coorg Kodagu (also known by its former name Coorg) is an administrative district in the Karnataka state of India. Before 1956, it was an administratively separate Coorg State, at which point it was merged into an enlarged Mysore State. It occupies ...

road which was made by the British for sending troops to Mysore also plays an important role in the history of Kuthuparamba. Kottayam dynasty had given much importance to the fine arts of

Kathakali Kathakali ( ml, കഥകളി) is a major form of classical Indian dance. It is a "story play" genre of art, but one distinguished by the elaborately colourful make-up and costumes of the traditional male actor-dancers. It is native to the M ...

and

Chakyar Koothu Chakyar Koothu (pronounced ) is a performance art from Kerala, India. It is primarily a type of highly refined monologue where the performer narrates episodes from Hindu epics (such as the ''Ramayana'' and the ''Mahabharata'') and stories from ...

. It is believed that the name Kuthuparamba was derived from the words ‘Koothu’ and ‘Paramba’ (the ground where the Koothu was performed). This name was given to the complete area by British Military, there was a cantonment and was known as Kuthuparamba Cantonment. The remnants of past history are still alive in the structure like Court complex, Inspection Banglow, Maroli ghat. Kuthuparamba was formed as Panchayat in the year 1939 by fixing Kuthuparamba revenue village as its boundary. The first president of the Panchayat was Dr. C. Kumaran. Kuthuparamba was established as a Municipality on 01.04.1990.

Demographics

As of 2011 Census, Kuthuparamba

Municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

with an area of had a population of 29,619. Kuthuparamba is the 3rd most densely populated municipal town in Kannur district. Males constitute 45.4% of the population and females 54.6%. Kuthuparamba had an average literacy rate of 96.76%, higher than the national urban average of 79% and state average of 94%: male literacy was 98.1%, and female literacy was 95.6%. In Kuthuparamba, 10.5% of the population was under 6 years of age.

Religion

As of 2011 India

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...

, Kuthuparamba Municipality had total population of 29,619 among which 68.98% are Hindus, 28.94% Muslims, 1.94% Christians and 0.14% others.

Administration

Kuthuparamba Municipality is a part of

Kuthuparamba Assembly constituency Kuthuparamba State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala state in southern India. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Vatakara Lok Sabha co ...

under Vatakara Lok Sabha constituency.

Municipal Wards

The town is administered by Kuthuparamba Municipality, headed by a chairman. For administrative purposes, the town is divided into 28 wards. The ruling party is

CPI(M) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a Marxist–Leninist communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in terms of membership and electoral seats and one of the na ...

with M. Sukumaran as the municipal chairman.

Law and order

The municipality comes under jurisdiction of Kuthuparamba Police Station, which was formed in the year 1871. The station limit is 72.68 km² covering 5 villages viz Kuthuparamba, Paduvilayi,

Pathiriyad Pathiriyad is a census town in Kannur district in the Indian state of Kerala. Transportation The national highway passes through Thalassery town. Mangalore, Goa and Mumbai can be accessed on the northern side and Cochin and Thiruvananthapuram ...

, Kandamkunnu and Mangattidam which includes Kuthuparamba municipality and panchayats like Vengad and Mangattidom. Kuthuparamba is one of the three police sub divisions in Kannur city formed on 18-02-2021. Kuthuparamba sub division comprises police stations, Kuthuparamba,

Mattanur Mattanur, also spelled Mattannur, is a town, municipality, and an aerotropolis in Kannur district, Kerala, India. Mattanur is about 27 km east of Kannur and Thalassery, two major towns of the district. Mattanur lies between Kannur, ...

, Mattanur Airport, Kolavelloor,

Panoor Panoor is a Municipality in the district of Kannur in the state of Kerala, India. The town is the main market place for the farmer communities in the surrounding regions. Panoor is one of the main suburbs of the City of Thalassery. Panoor got mu ...

and

Kannavam Kannavam is a Village in Thalassery Taluk in Kannur District of Kerala State, India. It comes under Chittaripparamba Panchayat. It is located south east of District headquarters Kannur, east of Kuthuparamba and from State capital Thiruvana ...

, with an area of 433.09 km², which are politically sensitive areas. Kuthuparamba have a special sub jail which is a renovation of the old sub jail building established since British rule in 1871. Courts complexes in Kuthuparamba * Judicial First Class Majistrate Court, Kuthuparamba * Munsiff Court, Kuthuparamba

Educational Institutions

Nirmalagiri College Nirmalagiri College, Nirmalagiri, Kuthuparamba, established in 1964, is affiliated to Kannur University. The college was accredited with B++ grade by the NAAC and is now Re-accredited with 'A Grade' after the third cycle of accreditation. The ...

, Kuthuparamba * College of Applied Science, Kuthuparamba * MG college, Kuthuparamba * MES College, Naravoor * Government ITI, Kuthuparamba *

Rani Jai Higher Secondary School Rani Jai Higher Secondary School is an educational institution in North Kerala, situated at Nirmalagiri barely a mile away from Kuthuparamba, Kannur district. The school has classes from lower kindergarten to standard 12 and follows the Kerala ...

, Nirmalagiri * Government Higher Secondary School, Kuthuparamba * Kuthuparamba UP School * Amrita Vidyalayam Kuthuparamba * South Kuthuparamba U P School * ATDC Valiyavelicham * Sree Narayana English Medium High School

Notable people

Filmmakers:

Sreenivasan Sreenivasan (born 6 April 1956) is an Indian actor, screenwriter, director, dubbing artist and producer who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema. Sreenivasan has starred in over 225 films. Sreenivasan wrote the screenplays of films such as ...

Vineeth Sreenivasan Vineeth Sreenivasan (born 1 October 1984) is an Indian playback singer, actor, film director, screenwriter, producer, lyricist, creative director and dubbing artist. He predominantly works in the Malayalam cinema. He is the son of actor an ...

Dhyan Sreenivasan Dhyan Sreenivasan (born 20 December 1988) is an Indian actor, and film director who works in Malayalam films. He made his acting debut with ''Thira'' (2013), directed by his elder brother Vineeth Sreenivasan.

Artist -

K.G. Subramanyan Kalpathi Ganpathi "K.G." Subramanyan (1924 29 June 2016) was an Indian artist. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 2012. Life Subramanyan was born in Tamil Brahmin family on 1924 in Kuthuparamba in Kerala, India, and initially studied econ ...

Koothuparamba Police firing

Koothuparamba Police firing was an incident that took place in Koothuparamba town in Kerala on 25 November 1994 when police opened fire on

DYFI Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) is a youth organisation in India. It was founded in its inaugural conference held from 1–3 November 1980 at Shaheed Kartar Singh Saraba village in Ludhiana, Punjab. DYFI identifies itself to be an ...

protestors who protested against commoditisation and privatisation of education policy by the UDF government led by the Congress. Police resorted to firing when the protesters blocked minister M.V. Raghavan, who was in town to inaugurate an event.

Political violence

This area is an epicenter of political violence between Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) have been fighting in this area for supremacy for the last 50 years. Clashes in 2008 left seven people killed and many have been injured. The

High Court of Kerala The High Court of Kerala is the highest court in the Indian state of Kerala and the Union territory of Lakshadweep. It is located in Kochi. Drawing its powers under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the High Court has the power to issu ...

called this manslaughter a "compelling sport" and suggested permanent deployment of Central forces in the affected areas.

Transportation

is the nearest railway station, 14 km away from the town. Kuthuparamba is a town en route

-Coorg ( SH30) road (commonly known as TC Road). Nearest airport is The

Kannur International Airport Kannur International Airport is an airport serving the North Malabar region of Kerala, Kodagu and Mysore districts of Karnataka and Mahé district of Puducherry in India. It is located east of Kannur, and east of Thalassery, near the muni ...

which is 15 km away. It has the road connectivity with major tourist attractions like

Aralam Aralam is a village and Grama Panchayat in Kannur district in the Indian state of Kerala. Demographics As of 2011 Census, Aralam had a population of 29,328 people which constitutes 14,438 males and 14,890 females. Aralam village spreads ov ...

Mysore Mysore (), officially Mysuru (), is a city in the southern part of the state of Karnataka, India. Mysore city is geographically located between 12° 18′ 26″ north latitude and 76° 38′ 59″ east longitude. It is located at an altitude of ...

Mangalore Mangalore (), officially known as Mangaluru, is a major port city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is located between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats about west of Bangalore, the state capital, 20 km north of Karnataka–Ker ...

Ooty Ooty (), officially known as Udhagamandalam (also known as Ootacamund (); abbreviated as Udhagai), is a city and a municipality in the Nilgiris district of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located north west of Coimbatore and so ...

Bangalore Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...

etc.

Linkage & connectivity

Kuthuparamba town is a major junction well connected by two state highways and a major district road to Wayanad. Thalassery is the nearest railway station, away from the town. Kannur international airport is located only away from the town. There are two state highways passing through the town, namely SH-30 (Thalassery – Coorg inter-state highway) and SH-38 (Kannur – Kozhikode road). These two roads act as major corridors of the town and possess good connectivity. Considerable volume of traffic from Karnataka passes through the town. In addition to this, other district roads and municipal roads exist within the town. Kerala government has proposed to construct a ring road in Kuthuparamba to reduce traffic congestion in the town.

Industrial growth centre

Kannur Industrial Growth Centre is located in Valiyavelicham near Kuthuparamba. It is one of the three IGCs in the state under Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (KSIDC). Kannur IGC have well developed infrastructure facilities, including power, water, and roads, facilitating setting up of solid waste/plastic recycling and processing units by interested entrepreneurs. A plastic recycling unit is operating in the Kannur IGC. Similarly, the KSIDC has allocated land for two recycling units and biomedical waste treatment unit, which are being set up. Also, Kerala Agro Machinery Corporation Ltd (KAMCO) is located at Valiyavelicham facilitates setting up of power tiller manufacturing units. The products being manufactured from the unit include new generation power tillers with self-starter, garden tiller and brush cutter with diesel engine.

Political parties

Indian Union Muslim League The Indian Union Muslim League (abbreviated as the I. U. M. L. or the League) is an Indian political party primarily based in the Indian state of Kerala. It is recognised as a State Party in Kerala by the Election Commission of India. The first ...

Communist Party of India (Marxist) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist communist List of political parties in India, political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in term ...

Communist Party of India Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest Marxist–Leninist communist party in India and one of the nine national parties in the country. The CPI was founded in modern-day Kanpur (formerly known as Cawnpore) on 26 December 1925. H ...

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

BJP The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

Aam Aadmi Party The Aam Aadmi Party (; AAP) is a political party in India, as one of the national political parties. The AAP was founded in November 2012 by Arvind Kejriwal and his then-companions following the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement, popular ...

(AAP) * JD(S) *

Indian National League Indian National League (abbreviated as the I. N. L.) is an Indian political party formed in 1994 under the leadership of the then Indian Union Muslim League leader Ebrahim Sulaiman Sait. The party is currently a member of the Communist Party o ...

(INL)

References

External links

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