Ajanur

Ajanoor
Ajanur
panchayat
Beach Road, Kanhangad
Beach Road, Kanhangad
Ajanoor is located in Kerala
Ajanoor
Ajanoor
Location in Kerala, India
Ajanoor is located in India
Ajanoor
Ajanoor
Ajanoor (India)
Coordinates: 12°20′24″N 75°5′24″E / 12.34000°N 75.09000°E / 12.34000; 75.09000
Country India
StateKerala
DistrictKasargode
Area
 • Total14.79 km2 (5.71 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total33,079
 • Density2,200/km2 (5,800/sq mi)
Languages
 • OfficialMalayalam, English
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
671 531
Telephone code91 467
Vehicle registrationKL-60
Websitekasaragod.nic.in

Ajanur (also anglicized Ajanoor) is a grama panchayat and also a village of the same name in Kasargode district, Kerala state, India. It is the fifth largest town in Kasaragod district.[1]

Ajanur vs. Kanhangad

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Ajanur is in fact a bureaucratic nicety. Some parts of Kanhangad town is put under an administrative unit called Ajanur Panchayath. The suburb continues to be part and parcel of Kanhangad town.


Ajanur is just north of Kanhangad, stretching for some 5 km along the Kanyakumari-Panavel Road, encompassing an area of some 28 km2. Total population was recorded as 42,467 in the 2001 Indian census, amounting to a population density of 1,526 per km2.

Wards in the local administration

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Ajanur panchayat consists of the following 23 villages or "wards":

ward name location population[2]
1 Ravaneshwaram 12°22′26″N 75°04′48″E / 12.374°N 75.080°E / 12.374; 75.080 2,546
2 Ramagiri 2,377
3 Velashwaram 12°21′14″N 75°05′10″E / 12.354°N 75.086°E / 12.354; 75.086 2,356
4 Madiyan 12°21′11″N 75°04′41″E / 12.353°N 75.078°E / 12.353; 75.078 2,678
5 Manikoth 1,775
6 Adot 1,908
7 Bellikoth 12°20′20″N 75°05′20″E / 12.339°N 75.089°E / 12.339; 75.089 2,326
8 Kattukulangara 2,190
9 Mavungal 12°20′24″N 75°06′14″E / 12.340°N 75.104°E / 12.340; 75.104 2,188
10 Ramnagar 2,128
11 Pallot 1,868
12 Kizhakkumkara 12°19′52″N 75°05′31″E / 12.331°N 75.092°E / 12.331; 75.092 2,080
13 Thulichery 2,204
14 Athinal 2,634
15 Ittammal 3,010
16 Kolavayal 12°20′06″N 75°04′23″E / 12.335°N 75.073°E / 12.335; 75.073 3,015
17 Ajanur Beach
(Ajanur Kadappuram)		 12°19′59″N 75°04′01″E / 12.333°N 75.067°E / 12.333; 75.067 3,370
18 Muttumthala 3,200
19 Mattummal 3,405
20 Mallikamad 2,933
21 Chithari / Chittari 12°21′25″N 75°03′54″E / 12.357°N 75.065°E / 12.357; 75.065
22 Barikkad
23 Mukkoodu

Notable people

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Ajanur is the birthplace of the poet P. Kunhiraman Nair, whose younger brother P. Krishnan Nair, was the first president of the panchayat.

Ajanur was also home for the socialist party leader C. M. Padmanabhan Nair.

Temples

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The Madiyan Koolom temple is situated in Ajanur (12°21′07″N 75°04′52″E / 12.352°N 75.081°E / 12.352; 75.081). The main deity of the temple is Bhadrakali.[3]

Education

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Educational institutions in Ajanur are Govt. Higher Secondary School, Ravaneshwaram, Maha Kavi P. Kunhiraman Nair Memorial High School, Iqbal High School and Crescent English Medium School.

Transportation

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Local roads have access to NH.66 which connects to Mangalore in the north and Calicut in the south. The nearest railway station is Kanhangad on Mangalore-Palakkad line. There are airports at Mangalore and Calicut.

References

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  1. ^ List of Cities and Towns in Kasaragod district
  2. ^ as of 2009, according to the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation Archived 11 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Tourism in Kasaragod". Archived from the original on 10 January 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
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