The Kuttippuram Bridge is a bridge that connects

Kuttippuram 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. A ...

with Thavanur-

Ponnani Ponnani () is a municipality in Ponnani Taluk, Malappuram District, in the state of Kerala, India. It serves as the administrative center of the Taluk and Block Panchayat of the same name. It is situated at the estuary of Bharatappuzha (Riv ...

region in

Malappuram district Malappuram (), is one of the 14 districts in the Indian state of Kerala, with a coastline of . It is the most populous district of Kerala, which is home to around 13% of the total population of the state. The district was formed on 16 June 196 ...

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. The

Tirur Tirur is a Municipality in Malappuram district in the Indian state of Kerala spread over an area of . It is one of the business centers of Malappuram district and is situated west of Malappuram and south of Kozhikode, on the Shoranur–Mang ...

and the

Taluk A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

s are separated by the river

Bharathappuzha Bharathappuzha ("River of Bhārata"), also known as the Nila or Ponnani River, is a river in India in the state of Kerala. With a length of 209 km, it is the second longest river that flows through Kerala after the Periyar. It flows th ...

, which is also the second-longest river in Kerala. The bridge connects these two regions. It is a part of the

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Kozhikode Kozhikode (), also known in English as Calicut, is a city along the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala in India. It has a corporation limit population of 609,224 and a metropolitan population of more than 2 million, making it the second l ...

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route. It is one of the largest as well as oldest bridges built over the river

, and plays a major role in connecting the

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with the erstwhile Travancore-Cochin via road.

History

Before the construction of the bridge,

and

were connected via

Shornur Shornur is a town and a municipality located in the Palakkad district, in the Indian state of Kerala, located on the banks of the Bharathapuzha River. The town covers an area of 32.28 km2. Geography Shornur is located at . It has an av ...

. A bridge over the river

through

became necessary for the construction of

to connect

with

. On May 8, 1949,

M. Bhaktavatsalam Minjur Bhakthavatsalam (9 October 1897 – 13 February 1987) was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as the chief minister of Madras State from 2 October 1963 to 6 March 1967. He was the last Congress chief minister of Ta ...

, the then Minister of

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of the Government of Madras, laid the foundation stone for the bridge. The Modern Housing Construction and Properties (MHCP) Ltd. based at

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was chosen for the construction. The bridge was inaugurated on November 11, 1953 by

Shanmugha Rajeswara Sethupathi Shanmugha Rajeswara Sethupathi (9 November 1909 – 4 March 1967) or Naganatha Sethupathi was an Indian politician of the Justice Party and later, the Indian National Congress and head of the ''zamindari'' of Ramnad from 1929 to 1967. He was a ...

, who was the Minister of

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at the time. The main architect of the bridge was K. V. Abdul Azeez from

. The chief engineer for the construction was W. H. Nambiar and the Superintendent engineer was P. T. Narayanan Nair.

''Kuttippuram Palam''

The popular

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poem, ''Kuttippuram Palam'', written by Edasseri Govindan Nair, published on February 21, 1954, through the magazine ''

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'', describes about Kuttippuram bridge and state of the river

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History

''Kuttippuram Palam''

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