Ajanur (also anglicized Ajanoor) is a grama panchayat and also a village of the same name in

Kasaragod district Kasaragod ( (, , ; English: ''Kassergode'') is one of the 14 districts in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Its northern border Thalappady is located just 9 km south to Ullal, which is the southernmost portion of the major port city ...

of Kerala,

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. It is the fifth largest town in Kasaragod district.

Ajanur vs. Kanhangad

Ajanur is in fact a bureaucratic nicety. Some parts of

Kanhangad Kanhangad () is a commercial city, located in the Kasaragod District, state of Kerala, India. Location The area contains villages around Kanhangad town with Kasaragod as the northern border, Nileshwar, popularly known as the 'cultural town' ...

town is put under an administrative unit called Ajanur Panchayath. The suburb continues to be part and parcel of

town. Ajanur is just north of

, 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

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, amounting to a population density of 1,526 per km².

Wards in the local administration

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

Notable people

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

The Madiyan Koolom temple is situated in Ajanur (). The main deity of the temple is

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Education

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

Local roads have access to NH.66 which connects to

Mangalore Mangaluru (), formerly called Mangalore ( ), is a major industrial port city in the Indian state of Karnataka and on the west coast of India. It is located between the Laccadive Sea and the Western Ghats about west of Bengaluru, the st ...

in the north and

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in the south. The nearest railway station is

on Mangalore-

Palakkad Palakkad (), Renaming of cities in India, also known as Palghat, historically known as Palakkattussery, is a city and a municipality in the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Kerala. It is the administrative headquarters of P ...

line. There are airports at

and

References

Kasargod district official websiteLSGI Election 2010

External links

{{Kasaragod district Kanhangad area Panchayats in Kasaragod district