The Malappuram Metropolitan Area or Malappuram Urban Agglomeration is an urban agglomeration centred around the city of

Malappuram Malappuram (also Malapuram) () is a municipality and town in Kerala and the headquarters of the Malappuram district in Kerala, India. It is the List of most populous urban agglomerations in Kerala, 4th largest urban agglomeration in Kerala and ...

Manjeri Manjeri () is a major town and municipality in Malappuram district, Kerala, India. It is the fourth-most populous List of cities and towns in Kerala, municipality in the state. It is situated southeast of Calicut International Airport, Karipur ...

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. It is the 25th largest urban agglomeration in India and the 4th largest in Kerala. It consists of Malappuram municipality, its adjoining municipalities, and census towns. It has a population of 1.7 million as per the 2011 Census of India. It is the only city in Kerala with a million-plus urban agglomeration that is yet to be upgraded to a Municipal Corporation. It is the fastest-growing metropolitan area in the world with a 44.1% urban growth between 2015 and 2020 as per the survey conducted by Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) based on urban area growth during January 2020. As of 2011, Malappuram metropolitan area has a literacy rate of 94.14%, which is higher than the national urban average of 85%.

Constituents of the urban agglomeration

According to the 2011 census, the Malappuram metropolitan area comprises the following constituents:

Proposed Malappuram Municipal Corporation

Malappuram is the only million-plus urban agglomeration (metropolitan area) of Kerala which has no municipal corporation within its limit. However, there is a demand to upgrade the Malappuram

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

into a

Municipal Corporation Municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs. The term can also be used to describe municipally o ...

by incorporating the local bodies in Greater Malappuram region. The proposed Malappuram Municipal Corporation comprises: *

Municipality *

Kottakkal Kottakkal (literally-''Land of the Fort'') is a major municipality, municipal town in Malappuram district in Kerala, having 32 Ward (country subdivision), wards. It is one of the four municipalities in Tirur Taluk, besides Tirur, Valanchery, and ...

Municipality * Anakkayam Outgrowth * Trikkalangode, a suburb village of Manjeri * Koottilangadi, a suburb village of Malappuram * Pookkottur, a suburb village of Malappuram * Kodur, a suburb village of Malappuram *

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, a suburb village of Malappuram * Othukkungal, an outgrowth of Malappuram *Makkaraparamba

Proposed Metro rail

Malappuram Metro is a proposed rapid transit system for Malappuram metropolitan area, In 2025, The Malappuram District Body has also examined the feasibility of implementing a metro rail project for the Malappuram metropolitan area and its suburbs.

Tirur Tirur is a major municipal town in Tirur Taluk, Malappuram district, in the Indian state of Kerala, spread over an area of . It is one of the major business centers in Malappuram district and is situated west of Malappuram and south of Kozh ...

Constituency Legislator Kurukkoli Moideen has submitted an initial report on a detailed feasibility study on the feasibility of implementing the project and presented a motion in the Kerala Assembly for this purposehttps://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/tirur-nilambur-metro-demand-evokes-sharp-riposte-from-cm/article69132501.ece

References

External links

Government of Kerala – Malappuram Portal

Government of India – Malappuram Portal
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Constituents of the urban agglomeration

Proposed Malappuram Municipal Corporation

Proposed Metro rail

See also

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