Mayyil is a

Census Town In India and some other countries, a census town is designated as a town that satisfies certain characteristics. India In India, a census town is one which is not statutorily notified and administered as a town, but nevertheless whose population ...

and Grama Panchayat in

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

District of

Kerala Kerala ( , ) is a States and union territories of India, 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 ...

State. Mayyil Panchayat established in 1962 by merging the villages of Kayaralam, Mayyil and Kandakkai.

Location

Mayyil is situated 20 km North East of District HQ

, 13 km South East of

Taliparamba Taliparamba (also known as Perinchelloor and Lakshmipuram) is a Municipalities of Kerala, Municipality and List of taluks of Kerala, Taluk of Kannur district in Kerala state, India. The municipal town spreads over an area of and is inha ...

, 20 km North West of

Mattannur Mattanur, also spelled as Mattannur, is a 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, Tha ...

, 13 km South West of

Sreekandapuram Sreekandapuram is a municipality in Kannur district of the Indian state of Kerala. Location The town is located on the bank of the Valapattanam River which flows into the Arabian sea. It is situated northeast of Kannur, east of Taliparamb ...

and 16 km West of

Irikkur Irikkur is a town and grama panchayat in Kannur District of Kerala state, India. Location Irikkur is located on SH 36 between the towns of Taliparamba and Iritty, and is directly accessible from Kannur, Mattanur, and Thalassery. It is equidis ...

Educational institutions

*IMNS GHSS, Mayyil *MAYYIL ALP School, Mayyil *Institute of Technology, Mayyil *ITM Arts & Science College, Mayyil *Kayaralam AUP School *Kayaralam North ALP School *ITM Public School, Mayyil *Mayyil Teacher Training Institute, Mayyil *Mullakkodi AUP School, Arimbra,

Mullakkodi Mullakkodi is a village in Mayyil Gram Panchayat of Kannur District situated on the East Bank of Valapattanam river. Mullakkodi is known for its backwaters, paddy fields and for its community festival called the Ayar Munamba Manna Maqam Uroo ...

*Mullakkodi LP School, Mullakkodi *Kandakkai K V A L P school, Kandakkai *Kandakai LP School, Kandakai *Thayampoyil ALP School, Thayampoyi *Perumachery AUP school, Perumachery *Pavannur ALP School, Pavannur *Peruvangoor ALP School, Peruvangoor *Spangle Academy, Professional Training, Kambil *Cherupazhassi ALP School, Cherupazhassi

Temples

*Velam maha ganapathi temple *Chekiyattu sree darmashata temple *Chekiyattu sree maha vishnu temple *Nechikottu kavu, Kayaralam *Chalagottu kavu, Kandakkai *Arimbra Subhramanya Temple *Sree Puthiya Bhagavathi Kaavu, Kaavinmoola *Kandanaar Poyil Sree Muchilott Bhagavathi Kshethram, Cherupazhassi *Kadoor Sree Ganapathi Shethram, Kadoor *Udayam kottam shiva kshethram, kadoor ambalam *Nambram Sree Muchilott Bhagavathi Kshethram, Naniyoor Nambram *Kandakkai Kunnummal Muthappan Madappura *Karonnan Kottam, Kayaralam *Thalakkott Muchilott Kavu *Thrikapaleswaram Sree Durga Devi Kshethram, Cherupazhassi

Administration

Mayyil Panchayat is part of

Block Panchayat Panchayat samiti or block panchayat is a rural local government ( panchayat) body at the intermediate tehsil (taluka/mandal) or block level in India. It works for the villages of the tehsil that together are called a development block. It has b ...

. Mayyil is politically a part of Taliparamba Assembly constituency under Kannur Loksabha constituency.

Transportation

The national highway(

NH 66 National Highway 66, commonly referred to as NH 66 (erstwhile NH-17 and a part of NH-47), is a mostly 4 lane 1640 km (1020 miles) long busy National Highway that runs roughly north–south along the western coast of India, parallel to t ...

) passes through Puthiyatheru (15 km South West), Dharmasala (11 km West),

(13 km North West) away from Mayyil Town.

Goa Goa (; ; ) is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is bound by the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north, and Karnataka to the ...

and

Mumbai Mumbai ( ; ), also known as Bombay ( ; its official name until 1995), is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city proper of India with an estimated population of 12 ...

can be accessed on the northern side and

Cochin Kochi ( , ), formerly known as Cochin ( ), is a major port city along the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea. It is part of the district of Ernakulam in the state of Kerala. The city is also commonly referred to as Ernaku ...

and

Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram ( ), also known as Trivandrum, is the Capital city, capital city of the Indian state of Kerala. As of 2011, the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation had a population of 957,730 over an area of 214.86 sq. km, making it the ...

can be accessed on the southern side. The road to the east of

Iritty Iritty is a municipality and taluk in Kannur district of Kerala state, India. The town is the main market place for the farmer communities in the surrounding regions. Iritty is at a distance of from Kannur International Airport and one among ...

connects to

Mysore Mysore ( ), officially Mysuru (), is a city in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. It is the headquarters of Mysore district and Mysore division. As the traditional seat of the Wadiyar dynasty, the city functioned as the capital of the ...

and

Bangalore Bengaluru, also known as Bangalore (List of renamed places in India#Karnataka, its official name until 1 November 2014), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the southern States and union territories of India, Indian state of Kar ...

. The nearest railway station is

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 ...

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. Trains are available to almost all parts of India subject to advance booking over the internet. There are airports at

Mattanur Mattanur, also spelled as Mattannur, is a 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, Th ...

and

Calicut Kozhikode (), also known as Calicut, is a city along the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala in India. Known as the City of Spices, Kozhikode is listed among the City of Literature, UNESCO's Cities of Literature. It is the nineteenth large ...

. All of them are international airports but direct flights are available only to Middle Eastern countries. Newly inaugurated Kannur International Airport (Mattannur) is 22 km away from Mayyil, and the proposed 4 line airport road from Taliparamba to Mattannur passes through Mayyil.

Demographics

As of 2011 Indian census, Mayyil

census town In India and some other countries, a census town is designated as a town that satisfies certain characteristics. India In India, a census town is one which is not statutorily notified and administered as a town, but nevertheless whose population ...

had population of 12,490 among which 5,768 are males and 6,722 are females. Total geographic area of mayyil census town is . Population of age group in 0-6 was 1,557 (12.5%) which constitutes 771 males and 786 females. Literacy rate of Mayyil town was 92.7% lower than state average of 94% where male literacy was 96.2% while female literacy rate was 89.7%. Mayyil Grama Panchayat had total population of 29,649 which constitutes 13,810 males and 15,839 with an area spreads over and 6,387 households. Mayyil panchayat has administration over Mayyil census town (urban) and Kayaralam village (rural).

Religion

As of 2011 India

census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

, Mayyil

had total population of 12,490 which constitute 59.8% Hindus, 40% Muslims and 0.2% others.

Geography

Mayyil is surrounded by around half of its boundary by

Valapattanam river The Valapattanam River is a 110 km long river which flows through the Kannur district in North Kerala. It is the longest river in the Kannur district. Course The Valapattanam River originates from the Brahmagiri hills of Western Ghats in ...

Libraries

Almost every road in this grama panchayat in Kerala's Kannur district leads to or ends with a library. The panchayat, which has a population of a little over 30,000 people in with a literacy rate of 93.52 percent, boasts 34 functioning libraries, the highest for a local body in Kerala state.

References

External links

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