Pattom is a suburb of the Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram , formerly known as Trivandrum, is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala and the headquarters of the Thiruvananthapuram District. It is located on the west coast of India near the extreme south of the mainland...

 city in the India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n state of Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

. It is located approximately 6 kilometres north of central Thiruvananthapuram. Pattom is one of the important administration and shopping centres of the Thiruvananthapuram city. It has offices of Kerala Public Service Commission

Kerala Public Service Commission

The Kerala Public Service Commission is a body created by the Constitution of India to select applicants for civil service jobs in the Indian state of Kerala according to the merits of the applicants and the rules of reservation....

, Kerala State Planning Board

Kerala State Planning Board

The Kerala State Planning Board is an advisory board under the Government of the State of Kerala, India. It was constituted in 1967 with Chief Minister as Chairman and a non-official as part time Vice-Chairman. The board assists the state government in formulating a development plan based on a...

, Life Insurance Corporation of India, Thiruvananthapuram Divisional Office

Life Insurance Corporation of India

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, LIC Housing Finance Limited, Kerala Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation

Milma

The Kerala Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation or Milma started its operation in 1980 with its head office at Thiruvananthapuram. It was started under the Indo-Swiss project. The project was launched in 1963 on the basis of a bilateral agreement executed between the Swiss Confederation and the...

 (Milma) and Kerala State Electricity Board

Kerala State Electricity Board

Kerala State Electricity Board is a public sector agency under the Government of Kerala, India, that generates and distributes the electricity supply in the state...

. The traffic police department is also located in Pattom. The extremely popular SUT Super Speciality Hospital is located here as well.It has schools like Arya Central School

Arya Central School

Arya Central School is a school institution located at Pattom, Thiruvananthapuram, India, opposite Vaidyuthi Bhavan on the Pattom-Pottakkuzhi Road. The school is affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education , New Delhi. It was founded by the late Shri Krishnanand Acharya and his wife Smt...

, St. Mary's Higher Secondary School, Pattom, Govt. Model Girls Higher Secondary School and Kendriya Vidyalaya

Kendriya Vidyalaya

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