valluvanad was one of the early administrative divisions of the Chera kingdom.it once stretched from the Arabian sea to the attapadi hills and from nila up to melattur.the area passed through various hands including samuthiri and tippu sultan,intermingled with years of self-rule. under the british most of the region came under valluvanad taluk of madras state.post independence and with the creation of the malappuram district the region was split up among the palakkad,malappuram and thrissur districts.
a new district of valluvanad could be carved out of these district owing to the following reasons:
1 the immense size of palakkad district.to get to palakkad one have to travel nearly 70km from the western most parts of the ottapalam taluk
2 nearly 36 lakh population of malappuram district
3 cultural similarity of ottapalam,perinthalmanna and mannarkkad taluks and their differences with the rest of palakkad district.
4 ottapalam taluk in itself has a population higher than wayanad district,and the fact that nearly 40% of palakkad district resides there . but this region is far away from the district hq
the district of valluvanad will be composed of as i said earlier – ottapalam,perinthalmanna and mannarkkad taluks, together with parts of talapally taluk and parts of ponnani taluk. the proposed district will have a population of over 20 lakhs and will be financially viable as the region has many important towns like
ottapalam(pop 50,000)
shornur(pop 45,000)
perinthalmana(44,000)
which are municipalities
and others like
mannarkad(pop 44,000)
cherpulassery(pop 30,000)
pattambi(pop 24,000)
the district headquarters could be either at perinnthalmanna or ottapalam ,though ottapalam have better infrastructure including a kendriya vidyalaya.
the mannarkkad taluk must be partitioned so that attapady region remains with the palakkad district and the subsequent creation of an attapadi taluk, can bring about development to the region.the border regions of talapally taluk like thiruvilluwamala and cheruthuruthy could be added to the district .this is mainly because of the cultural affliction of these areas to the erstwhile valluvanad.
the bifurcation of malappuram and palakkad districts is the only way forward as malappuram’s population explodes and palakkad remains far away from its most populous taluk.
On the contrary, parts of Palakkad district, Pattambi—–thrithala—-koottanad—–Peringode——-Chalissery, should be merged with Thrissur District. These regions show more cultural affinity with Thrissur than with, let’s say Mannarkkad.
thanx for ur comment. the regions u mentioned above were under british malabar and nevr been under erstwhile kochi state , so the similarities are just superficial due to the proximity of these places to kunnamkulam or trissur. but if u probe deeper the values , the culture , tradition and the language are more or less homogenous from chalissery to mannarkad.
I totally agree with the suggestion to form a new valluvanad district with Ottapalam as its head quarters. In fact in the period 1900-1930 Ottapalam was considered an importat town of kerala and lost its glory thanks to lack of development to the region. With the proposed IT park coming up in Ottapalam, creation of a new district will be more than viable financially and also help the surrounding areas develop rapidly in this age of gloabalisation
Good move
The hospital city Perinthalmanna [upcoming Aligarh University] will be the right place for district headquarters
i think PERINTHALMANNA which is a fast growing town, is most appropriate for the headquarters of VALLUVANADU district, it is going to come aligad off campus in PERINTHALMANNA
Hi Dears,
Thanks for atleast airing this suggestion. Normally, we people don’t ask for any thing. If it comes, ok. Otherwise also, OK.!!!!.We seldom makes noise, especially when somebody takes away some existing priveleges, thats all. That too under compulsion. That is the typical Valluvanadan’s ( And Palakkadan’s too ) attitude towards development.
Again, THANKS A LOT for bringing this topic for dicussion. Wishing all the best . Hope, our leaders will take it up one day..
VBS Guptan
thank you sir for your comment . its very unfortunate we delve mostly in the past.i have heard many elders say shornur was or ottapalam was this or that “those days”. what about now? .valluvanad is one of the infra structurally blessed regions of the state ,which had an early , remarkable start as far as industries are concerned. but around the 70s most of them closed down. its true that the prevalent political ideology at that time had a big role to play in that , most of these industries never really revived after liberalisation. agriculture also had the same fate.
tourism which was taunted as the next big thing never touched this culturally rich region. our present state is pathetic , being one of the most backward regions of the state and as u rightly said nobody really cares. lets hope that this changes.
I think the mannarkkad will be a suitable place for district head quarters of valluvanad district
Becouse mannarkkad is one of the fast devoloping town in kerala and mannarkkad is the largest taluk in kerala
stupid idea.Perinthalmannna never add to any district.it should be in MALAPPURAM.
need Alathur District with its area its loksabha con.. area.Because this place not actually
in malabar
Stupid idea.Perinthalmanna never add to any district it should be in malappuram Dt.
Need Ponnani District which condain ponnani,Tirur,And some part of tirurangadi taluk.
in case of palakkad district need Alathur district which is actually not in MALABAR.
Palakkad district condain palakkad loksabha cons. Area