Ramavarmapuram
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Ramavarmapuram is the northern suburb
of Thrissur City
in Kerala
. This suburban area is home to several governmental and other institutions of national importance. The largest menhir
type megalithic monument in granite
in Kerala is found here. A local catholic church has recently been adorned with mural paintings in the traditional Kerala style. This is the first instance of such a church decoration in Kerala in modern times.
At the time of the founding of a broadcasting station
of All India Radio
in Thrissur, the place where the station was established was renamed as Ramavarmapuram. Prior to that the place was known as Anappara (Malayalam : ആനപ്പാറ). The original place name still lingers in native usage. Over the years the place specified as Ramavarmapuram expanded to include the entire region in the northern suburbs of Thrissur City. After of the formation of Thrissur Municipal Corporation in September 2000, one of the fifty-two divisions of the city has been named Ramavarmapuram. There is also a Post Office
named Ramavarmapuram (PIN
: 680631) serving parts of these suburbs. The area can be reached by bus
from Swaraj Round and North Bus Stand in Thrissur.
was acquired by the government for setting up a broadcasting station of All India Radio in Thrissur. The place where the station was established was named as Ramavarmapuram in honour and to perpetuate the memory of Rama Varma the donor of the land. The word 'Ramavarmapuram' can be loosely translated into English
as 'Rama Varma's land'. The donor was the last king of the princely state of Cochin
, Rama Varma Kunjunni Thampuran
(Malayalam : രാമവര്മ്മ കുഞ്ഞുണ്ണി തമ്പുരാന്) known popularly as Pareekshith Thampuran (Malayalam : പരീക്ഷിത്ത് തമ്പുരാന്). He was born on 15 August 1876 and crowned as king in July 1948. On 1 July 1949, the princely state
s of Travancore
and Cochin
were integrated to form the Travancore-Cochin
state. With that merger Thampuran ceased to be the Maharaja
of Cochin. He died in November 1964 at Thripunithura.
In Cochin royal family
all the male members were named according to the following convention
:
eldest son to a mother - Rama Varma , second son - Kerala Varma and third son - Ravi Varma.
Because of this convention the official names of most of the rulers of Cochin were Rama Varma.
Counting since 1500 CE
Pareekshith Thampuran was the eighteenth king named Rama Varma in the history of Cochin.
Ramavarmapuram has a little known pre-history. The area must have been the site
of human settlement in very ancient times. This is evidenced by the presence of a megalithic monument there. The monument is in granite
and is of menhir
type. Such monuments are very rare in Kerala. In fact, including Ramavarmapuram, there are only two places in Kerala where such monuments exist. The other place is Kuttoor
also in Thrissur district. The monument in Ramavarmapuram is the larger of the two and measures 15 feet (4.6 m) in height and 12 in 4 in (3.76 m) in breadth. It is under the protection of Department of Archaeology
since 1944. The monument is locally known as 'Padakkallu' or 'Pulachikkallu'.
These menhirs are memorials for the departed souls put up at burial
sites. They belong to the Megalithic Age of Kerala, which is roughly estimated between 1000 BCE and 500 CE
. All such monuments have not been dated exactly. Some experts are of the view that these are the remnants of the Neolithic Age
in the development of human technology
.
The Ramavarmapuram menhir is also believed to be a monument belonging to the Sangam period in the South Indian history.
of region is reflected in the original name of the area. 'Anappara' is the place of the 'elephant rock', a place with a rock
resembling the back of an elephant
. (There are many places in Kerala named Anappara.) Ramavarmapuram area has extensive granite
quarries
supplying large quantities of construction aggregate
s in the form boulders, crushed stone
and gravel
to the building industry in Thrissur district.
A factory has been established in 2003 to produce dimension stone
s in granite
. The tile
s and slabs produced by the factory have a unique color christened 'Malabar green'.
, painted in the traditional Kerala style.
According to official records there are only around ten churches in Kerala having murals. All of them are at least two centuries old. The renovated St. Francis Xavier's Church has 16 murals that depict important incidents in the life of Jesus Christ. Blue has been extensively used in these murals in contrast to the use of red as the dominant colour in murals in Kerala.
These murals have attracted a lot of media
attention. They have been described as an attempt at fusion of Indian and Western traditions. The paintings are the creations of P K Sadanandan, a product of the Institute of Mural Painting, Guruvayur
.
The church authorities had christened the place where the church is located as Vijayapuram. But the place name was not accorded any official recognition and quickly faded from local usage. However, in diocese records the location of the church is still mentioned as Vijayapuram. The adjacent road junction is the Church Corner (Malayalam : പള്ളിമൂല) and it is the main road cross of Ramavarmapuram.
. These include one of the largest police training centres in India, south India's only police dog training
centre and the headquarters of the Kerala Armed Police I Battalion. This has its origins in the separation of the then Cochin State Police into two divisions in the early 1930s and the stationing of the head-quarters of one of the divisions in the present-day Ramavarmapuram. There are also several unique educational institutions in the area. The second oldest engineering college
in Kerala, a unique dairy
training centre and a separate training centre for Hindi
teacher
s are all located here.
Social support to depraved and destitute persons - women, poor old aged people, orphan
s - is provided through several governmental and privately run welfare homes. Ramavarmapuram has a host of such institutions. The most notable among them is Christ Villa Poor Home for the Elderly which is Kerala's first residential counseling and rehabilitation
centre.
An award winning blood bank
complex, a Doordarshan
studio and a historic central prison
are some of the other notable institutions in Ramavarmapuram.
: Three-storied Z- and L-shaped barracks all constructed by Rao Bahadur T S Narayana Iyyer, Dewan
of Cochin in 1930s. The camp site is located in a 26 acres (105,218.4 m²) campus. (Retrieved on 8 January 2009) This was the first such battalion to be formed in Kerala. Presently there are five such battalions.
The armed police battalions serve as reserve force to be deployed whenever and wherever the district police fall short of manpower in the maintenance of law and order. When so deployed, they function under the control of the district police officers and are returned to their camps as soon as the requirement is over. Unlike district police, they are not permitted to undertake crime investigation work. The battalions are maintained on the pattern of infantry battalions.
Kerala Police Academy
The Academy, spread over an area of 348 acres (1.4 km²), started functioning in May 2004. It is the main training centre of Kerala Police
and is designed to have a capacity of training 1950 trainees at a time, which is one of the highest in India.
. The first batch of dogs was passed out in October 2008. The centre is attached to Kerala Police Academy.
There are two types of dogs employed by Police: ‘Tracker dogs’ which track criminals and ‘Sniffer dogs' which detects explosives, narcotics etc. The dog training centre
can accommodate 30 dogs at a time and they can be trained in both tracking and sniffing operations.
After several mergers of the various wings of the law-enforcement agencies existing in the different parts of Kerala before independence, a force called State General Armed Reserve was formed in 1941. This was bifurcated in 1958 to form the Special Armed Police Battalion and the
District Armed Reserve Police.
Administrative Office of Thrissur City Police Commissioner
The Administrative Office of Thrissur City Police
Commissioner is located in Ramavarmapuram.
The Thrissur City Police Commissionerate was formed in March 2011 by bifurcating the then existing Thrissur police district into rural and urban. The administrative jurisdiction of the City Police Commissioner covers 12 police stations including a women police station and a traffic station. These stations fall in three subdivisions, namely, Thrissur (comprising Thrissur East, Thrissur West and Ollur
circles) and Guruvayur
(comprising Peramangalam
and Guruvayur
circles). P. Vijayan is the first City Police Commissioner of Thrissur.
and functioning in Ramavarmapuram to promote English language
studies in Kerala
. Though the Institute started functioning in May 2011, it was formally inaugurated by Kerala Education Minister P K Abdu Rabb only on 01 October 2011. It is an English Language Training Institute (ELTI) affiliated to English and Foreign Languages University
(EFL University), Hyderabad. The Institute coordinates research and training activities in English language
teaching by working in tandem with the District Centres for English at Thiruvananthapuram
, Kollam
, Thrissur
and Kozhikode
. The Institute's stress is on developing and delivering methodologies for improving communication skills of students by continued training of teachers. The training sessions in the Institute utilises technology-aided English language teaching methods.
, is the second oldest engineering college in Kerala. It is also the first engineering college to be established after the formation of the State of Kerala.
The college started functioning in the Chembukkavu (Thrissur
) campus of Maharaja's Technological Institute in 1957. The classes were shifted to the present campus in October 1960 and the college was formally inaugurated in February 1962. The present college campus is spread over an area of 75 acres (303,514.5 m²). The foundation stone of the college was laid by late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
, the first Prime Minister of India
, on 26 April 1958.
The land which is now under the control of Government Engineering College, Thrissur, was originally in the hands of Parukkutty Nethyar Amma
(Malayalam : പാറുക്കുട്ടി നേത്യാര് അമ്മ). She was the consort of Maharaja Rama Varma, who reigned as king of the princely state of Cochin from 1914 to 1932. After his demise in 1932 while staying in Madras (Chennai
), Maharaja Rama Varma was popularly referred to as 'Madrassil Theepetta Thampuran'.
Vimala College was the only women's college in Kerala which offered exclusively graduate and post-graduate programmes. The college was presented the R Shankar Award in 2002 by the Government of Kerala for the best college in Kerala. It has been accredited with five star rating by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council, Bangalore.
(Central School) has started functioning in the premises of Kerala Police Academy
in Ramavarmapuram from 30 August 2010. This is the second Kendriya Vidyalaya in Thrissur District
. The other one is located at Puranattukara
and it was established in 1985. There are a total of 34 Kendriya Vidyalayas in Kerala State of which 9 are in the Bangalore
Region and 25 in the Chennai
Region of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan.
centre. It was established in 1925.
Christ Villa is under the management of Thrissur Archdiocese. It was expanded in 1947 by adding St Vincent's Orphanage, an orphanage
for girls. Now a welfare home named Mamma Margaret's Home specifically ear-marked for women is also functioning in the same campus. The premises of the Home also houses a retreat centre of the Archdiocese, ABBA Renewal Centre
, founded in 2008.
The institution is partly funded by Help the Aged, UK
and supported by HelpAge India.
of Thrissur Archdiocese and is functioning in the campus of Christ Villa Poor Home. It was inaugurated in January 2007.
The clients of Nest are helped to lead a disciplined and healthy life through a combination of yoga
, meditation
, therapies, group and individual counseling, treatment and recreation
. It is organizationally divided into four wings:
Marian Clinical Counseling Institute, Mochana De-addiction Center, Bethsetha Treatment Center, Angels Rehabilitation Center.
one of which is in Ramavarmapuram. Asha Bhavans at Thiruvananthapuram
and Kozhikode
accommodate women above the age of 13 years and Asha Bhavan at Thrissur admits women above the age of 15 years.
s, deserted women, divorced women and destitute women who have nobody to look after and who are of age above 13 years. Children coming with mothers are allowed to stay with them up to the age of six years. Every district in Kerala
, except Idukki and Wayanad, has such a home.
Mahilamandirams are also managed by the Social Welfare Department of Govt of Kerala
Broadcasting Station
The transmitter of the Thrissur station of All India Radio was commissioned on 4 November 1956.
The station started independent broadcasting in 1974.
. A low power transmitter of Doordardashan is also located near the studio.
Prior to the establishment of the jail, the site was known as Viyyur Park. The Park housed the museum, zoo and botanical gardens which were all started in 1885. These were shifted
to their present location in Chembukavu in 1914.
There is also a Sub-Jail adjacent to Central Prison.
Indian Medical Association (IMA)
The IMA Blood Bank Complex and Research Centre at Ramavarmapuram is a joint project of Indian Medical Association (IMA), Thrissur and the District Panchayat, Thrissur under People’s Plan Programme. A registered charitable society called Janakeeya Samithy (Arogyam), Thrissur manages the center. The centre provides subsidised services to the economically disadvantaged sections of the population in the districts of Thrissur
, Palakkad
and Malappuram in central Kerala. The Complex was inaugurated in October 2004.
The center was adjudged as the Best Blood Bank in Kerala by Kerala State AIDS
Control Society in 2008.
MILMA
One of the eleven dairies of Kerala Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (known by the trade name Milma
) is in Ramavarmapuram. There is a well-established training centre with hostel facility attached to this dairy. This is the only such training centre in Kerala.
and a science and technology park to be constructed under the auspices of Thrissur District Panchayath. The project christened Vigyan Sagar is expected to cost Rupees twenty crores. The State Government has allocated 3.6 hectares of land, on the compound of the District Institute for Education and Training for setting up the planetarium and park. Kerala Legislative Assembly Speaker K. Radhakrishnan inaugurated the Administrative Block of Vigyan Sagar on 1 August 2010.
Suburb
The word suburb mostly refers to a residential area, either existing as part of a city or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city . Some suburbs have a degree of administrative autonomy, and most have lower population density than inner city neighborhoods...
of Thrissur City
Thrissur
This article is about the city in India. For the district, see Thrissur district. For the urban agglomeration area of Thrissur see Thrissur Metropolitan Area...
in 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....
. This suburban area is home to several governmental and other institutions of national importance. The largest menhir
Menhir
A menhir is a large upright standing stone. Menhirs may be found singly as monoliths, or as part of a group of similar stones. Their size can vary considerably; but their shape is generally uneven and squared, often tapering towards the top...
type megalithic monument in granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
in Kerala is found here. A local catholic church has recently been adorned with mural paintings in the traditional Kerala style. This is the first instance of such a church decoration in Kerala in modern times.
At the time of the founding of a broadcasting station
Radio station
Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...
of All India Radio
All India Radio
All India Radio , officially known since 1956 as Akashvani , is the radio broadcaster of India and a division of Prasar Bharati. Established in 1936, it is the sister service of Prasar Bharati's Doordarshan, the national television broadcaster. All India Radio is one of the largest radio networks...
in Thrissur, the place where the station was established was renamed as Ramavarmapuram. Prior to that the place was known as Anappara (Malayalam : ആനപ്പാറ). The original place name still lingers in native usage. Over the years the place specified as Ramavarmapuram expanded to include the entire region in the northern suburbs of Thrissur City. After of the formation of Thrissur Municipal Corporation in September 2000, one of the fifty-two divisions of the city has been named Ramavarmapuram. There is also a Post Office
Post office
A post office is a facility forming part of a postal system for the posting, receipt, sorting, handling, transmission or delivery of mail.Post offices offer mail-related services such as post office boxes, postage and packaging supplies...
named Ramavarmapuram (PIN
Postal Index Number
A Postal Index Number or PIN or Pincode is the post office numbering or post code system used by India Post, the Indian postal administration. PIN stands for Postal Index Number and the code is 6 digits long. The PIN was introduced on August 15, 1972.-Structure:There are nine PIN zones in India,...
: 680631) serving parts of these suburbs. The area can be reached by bus
Bus
A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are...
from Swaraj Round and North Bus Stand in Thrissur.
Origin of the name
A part of the real estate holdings of the Cochin royal familyCochin Royal Family
The Cochin royal family were rulers of Cochin, or Kochi, India. They were also known as Perumpadapu Swaroopam or Kuru Swaroopam.-Tradition of Perumpadapu Swaroopam:...
was acquired by the government for setting up a broadcasting station of All India Radio in Thrissur. The place where the station was established was named as Ramavarmapuram in honour and to perpetuate the memory of Rama Varma the donor of the land. The word 'Ramavarmapuram' can be loosely translated into English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
as 'Rama Varma's land'. The donor was the last king of the princely state of Cochin
Kingdom of Cochin
Kingdom of Cochin was a late medieval Hindu kingdom and later Princely State on the Malabar Coast, South India...
, Rama Varma Kunjunni Thampuran
Rama Varma Parikshith Thampuran
Darsanakalanidhi Parikshith Thampuran was the last official ruler of the Cochin princely state. On 1 July 1949, Travancore and Cochin merged together and Travancore-Cochin State came into existence and the kingdom and the rulership came to an end. He ruled the kingdom for a period of one year and...
(Malayalam : രാമവര്മ്മ കുഞ്ഞുണ്ണി തമ്പുരാന്) known popularly as Pareekshith Thampuran (Malayalam : പരീക്ഷിത്ത് തമ്പുരാന്). He was born on 15 August 1876 and crowned as king in July 1948. On 1 July 1949, the princely state
Princely state
A Princely State was a nominally sovereign entitity of British rule in India that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule such as suzerainty or paramountcy.-British relationship with the Princely States:India under the British Raj ...
s of Travancore
Travancore
Kingdom of Travancore was a former Hindu feudal kingdom and Indian Princely State with its capital at Padmanabhapuram or Trivandrum ruled by the Travancore Royal Family. The Kingdom of Travancore comprised most of modern day southern Kerala, Kanyakumari district, and the southernmost parts of...
and Cochin
Kingdom of Cochin
Kingdom of Cochin was a late medieval Hindu kingdom and later Princely State on the Malabar Coast, South India...
were integrated to form the Travancore-Cochin
Travancore-Cochin
Travancore-Cochin or Thiru-Kochi is a former state of India . It was created on 1 July 1949 by the merger of two former princely states, the kingdoms of Travancore and Cochin....
state. With that merger Thampuran ceased to be the Maharaja
Maharaja
Mahārāja is a Sanskrit title for a "great king" or "high king". The female equivalent title Maharani denotes either the wife of a Maharaja or, in states where that was customary, a woman ruling in her own right. The widow of a Maharaja is known as a Rajamata...
of Cochin. He died in November 1964 at Thripunithura.
In Cochin royal family
Cochin Royal Family
The Cochin royal family were rulers of Cochin, or Kochi, India. They were also known as Perumpadapu Swaroopam or Kuru Swaroopam.-Tradition of Perumpadapu Swaroopam:...
all the male members were named according to the following convention
Convention (norm)
A convention is a set of agreed, stipulated or generally accepted standards, norms, social norms or criteria, often taking the form of a custom....
:
eldest son to a mother - Rama Varma , second son - Kerala Varma and third son - Ravi Varma.
Because of this convention the official names of most of the rulers of Cochin were Rama Varma.
Counting since 1500 CE
Common Era
Common Era ,abbreviated as CE, is an alternative designation for the calendar era originally introduced by Dionysius Exiguus in the 6th century, traditionally identified with Anno Domini .Dates before the year 1 CE are indicated by the usage of BCE, short for Before the Common Era Common Era...
Pareekshith Thampuran was the eighteenth king named Rama Varma in the history of Cochin.
Pre-history of the locality
Location (geography)
The terms location and place in geography are used to identify a point or an area on the Earth's surface or elsewhere. The term 'location' generally implies a higher degree of can certainty than "place" which often has an ambiguous boundary relying more on human/social attributes of place identity...
of human settlement in very ancient times. This is evidenced by the presence of a megalithic monument there. The monument is in granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
and is of menhir
Menhir
A menhir is a large upright standing stone. Menhirs may be found singly as monoliths, or as part of a group of similar stones. Their size can vary considerably; but their shape is generally uneven and squared, often tapering towards the top...
type. Such monuments are very rare in Kerala. In fact, including Ramavarmapuram, there are only two places in Kerala where such monuments exist. The other place is Kuttoor
Kuttoor
-Demographics: India census, Kuttoor had a population of 7581 with 3640 males and 3941 females....
also in Thrissur district. The monument in Ramavarmapuram is the larger of the two and measures 15 feet (4.6 m) in height and 12 in 4 in (3.76 m) in breadth. It is under the protection of Department of Archaeology
Archaeology
Archaeology, or archeology , is the study of human society, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes...
since 1944. The monument is locally known as 'Padakkallu' or 'Pulachikkallu'.
These menhirs are memorials for the departed souls put up at burial
sites. They belong to the Megalithic Age of Kerala, which is roughly estimated between 1000 BCE and 500 CE
Common Era
Common Era ,abbreviated as CE, is an alternative designation for the calendar era originally introduced by Dionysius Exiguus in the 6th century, traditionally identified with Anno Domini .Dates before the year 1 CE are indicated by the usage of BCE, short for Before the Common Era Common Era...
. All such monuments have not been dated exactly. Some experts are of the view that these are the remnants of the Neolithic Age
Neolithic
The Neolithic Age, Era, or Period, or New Stone Age, was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 9500 BC in some parts of the Middle East, and later in other parts of the world. It is traditionally considered as the last part of the Stone Age...
in the development of human technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
.
The Ramavarmapuram menhir is also believed to be a monument belonging to the Sangam period in the South Indian history.
Terrain
The nature of the terrainTerrain
Terrain, or land relief, is the vertical and horizontal dimension of land surface. When relief is described underwater, the term bathymetry is used...
of region is reflected in the original name of the area. 'Anappara' is the place of the 'elephant rock', a place with a rock
Rock (geology)
In geology, rock or stone is a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids.The Earth's outer solid layer, the lithosphere, is made of rock. In general rocks are of three types, namely, igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic...
resembling the back of an elephant
Elephant
Elephants are large land mammals in two extant genera of the family Elephantidae: Elephas and Loxodonta, with the third genus Mammuthus extinct...
. (There are many places in Kerala named Anappara.) Ramavarmapuram area has extensive granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
quarries
Quarry
A quarry is a type of open-pit mine from which rock or minerals are extracted. Quarries are generally used for extracting building materials, such as dimension stone, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, and gravel. They are often collocated with concrete and asphalt plants due to the requirement...
supplying large quantities of construction aggregate
Construction Aggregate
Construction aggregate, or simply "aggregate", is a broad category of coarse particulate material used in construction, including sand, gravel, crushed stone, slag, recycled concrete and geosynthetic aggregates. Aggregates are the most mined material in the world...
s in the form boulders, crushed stone
Crushed stone
Crushed stone or angular rock is a form of construction aggregate, typically produced by mining a suitable rock deposit and breaking the removed rock down to the desired size using crushers...
and gravel
Gravel
Gravel is composed of unconsolidated rock fragments that have a general particle size range and include size classes from granule- to boulder-sized fragments. Gravel can be sub-categorized into granule and cobble...
to the building industry in Thrissur district.
A factory has been established in 2003 to produce dimension stone
Dimension stone
Dimension stone is natural stone or rock that has been selected and fabricated to specific sizes or shapes. Color, texture and pattern, and surface finish of the stone are also normal requirements...
s in granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
. The tile
Tile
A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, or even glass. Tiles are generally used for covering roofs, floors, walls, showers, or other objects such as tabletops...
s and slabs produced by the factory have a unique color christened 'Malabar green'.
Church Murals
The local catholic St Francis Xavier's Church, established in 1911, upon its renovation in 2005 has been adorned with murals depicting Biblical themesTheme (literature)
A theme is a broad, message, or moral of a story. The message may be about life, society, or human nature. Themes often explore timeless and universal ideas and are almost always implied rather than stated explicitly. Along with plot, character,...
, painted in the traditional Kerala style.
According to official records there are only around ten churches in Kerala having murals. All of them are at least two centuries old. The renovated St. Francis Xavier's Church has 16 murals that depict important incidents in the life of Jesus Christ. Blue has been extensively used in these murals in contrast to the use of red as the dominant colour in murals in Kerala.
These murals have attracted a lot of media
News media
The news media are those elements of the mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public.These include print media , broadcast news , and more recently the Internet .-Etymology:A medium is a carrier of something...
attention. They have been described as an attempt at fusion of Indian and Western traditions. The paintings are the creations of P K Sadanandan, a product of the Institute of Mural Painting, Guruvayur
Guruvayur
Guruvayur is a municipal town in Thrissur District, of Kerala State in India. It houses the famous Guruvayur Sree Krishna Temple, the fourth biggest temple in India in terms of the number of devotees per day.-History:Guruvayur, according to the legends may be 5,000 years old as the Guruvayur...
.
The church authorities had christened the place where the church is located as Vijayapuram. But the place name was not accorded any official recognition and quickly faded from local usage. However, in diocese records the location of the church is still mentioned as Vijayapuram. The adjacent road junction is the Church Corner (Malayalam : പള്ളിമൂല) and it is the main road cross of Ramavarmapuram.
Institutions in Ramavarmapuram
Ramavarmapuram has an unusual concentration of well-known establishments all connected to Kerala PoliceKerala Police
The Kerala State Police is the law enforcement agency for the state of Kerala, India. Kerala Police has its headquarters in Thiruvananthapuram, the state capital. The Police training college was set up by Travancore Maharaja in Thiruvananthapuram in mid 20th centuary. In 2004,a larger Kerala...
. These include one of the largest police training centres in India, south India's only police dog training
Dog training
Dog training is the process of teaching skills or behaviors to a dog. This can include teaching a dog to respond to certain commands, or helping the dog learn coping skills for stressful environments. Dog training often includes operant conditioning, classical conditioning, or non-associative...
centre and the headquarters of the Kerala Armed Police I Battalion. This has its origins in the separation of the then Cochin State Police into two divisions in the early 1930s and the stationing of the head-quarters of one of the divisions in the present-day Ramavarmapuram. There are also several unique educational institutions in the area. The second oldest engineering college
Engineering college
Engineering colleges generally refer to institutes of higher education which offer an engineering course at degree level. The duration of the course is four to five years depending upon the university to which the college is affiliated. The students learn little of basic science concentrating...
in Kerala, a unique dairy
Dairy
A dairy is a business enterprise established for the harvesting of animal milk—mostly from cows or goats, but also from buffalo, sheep, horses or camels —for human consumption. A dairy is typically located on a dedicated dairy farm or section of a multi-purpose farm that is concerned...
training centre and a separate training centre for Hindi
Hindi
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
teacher
Teacher
A teacher or schoolteacher is a person who provides education for pupils and students . The role of teacher is often formal and ongoing, carried out at a school or other place of formal education. In many countries, a person who wishes to become a teacher must first obtain specified professional...
s are all located here.
Social support to depraved and destitute persons - women, poor old aged people, orphan
Orphan
An orphan is a child permanently bereaved of or abandoned by his or her parents. In common usage, only a child who has lost both parents is called an orphan...
s - is provided through several governmental and privately run welfare homes. Ramavarmapuram has a host of such institutions. The most notable among them is Christ Villa Poor Home for the Elderly which is Kerala's first residential counseling and rehabilitation
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Physical medicine and rehabilitation , physiatry or rehabilitation medicine, is a branch of medicine that aims to enhance and restore functional ability and quality of life to those with physical impairments or disabilities. A physician having completed training in this field is referred to as a...
centre.
An award winning blood bank
Blood bank
A blood bank is a cache or bank of blood or blood components, gathered as a result of blood donation, stored and preserved for later use in blood transfusion. The term "blood bank" typically refers to a division of a hospital laboratory where the storage of blood product occurs and where proper...
complex, a Doordarshan
DoorDarshan
Doordarshan is an Indian public service broadcaster, a division of Prasar Bharati. It is one of the largest broadcasting organizations in India in terms of the infrastructure of studios and transmitters. Recently, it has also started Digital Terrestrial Transmitters. On September 15, 2009,...
studio and a historic central prison
Prison
A prison is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Imprisonment or incarceration is a legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime...
are some of the other notable institutions in Ramavarmapuram.
Headquarters of Kerala Armed Police I Batalion
The battalion was established by a Government order in 1972. A striking feature of this campus of Kerala Armed Police is the particular shape of its barracksBarracks
Barracks are specialised buildings for permanent military accommodation; the word may apply to separate housing blocks or to complete complexes. Their main object is to separate soldiers from the civilian population and reinforce discipline, training and esprit de corps. They were sometimes called...
: Three-storied Z- and L-shaped barracks all constructed by Rao Bahadur T S Narayana Iyyer, Dewan
Dewan
The originally Persian title of dewan has, at various points in Islamic history, designated various differing though similar functions.-Etymology:...
of Cochin in 1930s. The camp site is located in a 26 acres (105,218.4 m²) campus. (Retrieved on 8 January 2009) This was the first such battalion to be formed in Kerala. Presently there are five such battalions.
The armed police battalions serve as reserve force to be deployed whenever and wherever the district police fall short of manpower in the maintenance of law and order. When so deployed, they function under the control of the district police officers and are returned to their camps as soon as the requirement is over. Unlike district police, they are not permitted to undertake crime investigation work. The battalions are maintained on the pattern of infantry battalions.
Kerala Police AcademyKerala Police AcademyKerala Police Academy is situated in Ramavarmapuram in Thrissur city which began functioning in May, 2004. The Academy runs full-term basic courses for sub-inspectors, constables, women constables, drivers and telecommunication wing constables. It also runs short-term courses and in-service...
The Academy, spread over an area of 348 acres (1.4 km²), started functioning in May 2004. It is the main training centre of Kerala PoliceKerala Police
The Kerala State Police is the law enforcement agency for the state of Kerala, India. Kerala Police has its headquarters in Thiruvananthapuram, the state capital. The Police training college was set up by Travancore Maharaja in Thiruvananthapuram in mid 20th centuary. In 2004,a larger Kerala...
and is designed to have a capacity of training 1950 trainees at a time, which is one of the highest in India.
Police Dog Training Center
This is the only one such centre in South IndiaSouth India
South India is the area encompassing India's states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry, occupying 19.31% of India's area...
. The first batch of dogs was passed out in October 2008. The centre is attached to Kerala Police Academy.
There are two types of dogs employed by Police: ‘Tracker dogs’ which track criminals and ‘Sniffer dogs' which detects explosives, narcotics etc. The dog training centre
can accommodate 30 dogs at a time and they can be trained in both tracking and sniffing operations.
Thrissur District Armed Reserve Police
The administrative blocks, residential quarters, parade grounds and other establishments connected with Thrissur District Armed Reserve Police are all located in Ramavarmapuram adjacent to the campus of Kerala Armed Police I Battalion.After several mergers of the various wings of the law-enforcement agencies existing in the different parts of Kerala before independence, a force called State General Armed Reserve was formed in 1941. This was bifurcated in 1958 to form the Special Armed Police Battalion and the
District Armed Reserve Police.
Kerala Fire and Rescue Services Academy
The academy started functioning in June 2007. There is a growing demand for trained fire fighting men in foreign countries. The Academy is designed to run rescue and fire fighting courses for able bodied youth. The Government has requested the Central Government to upgrade the Academy as a national centre for disaster management training.Administrative Office of Thrissur City Police CommissionerPolice commissionerCommissioner is a senior rank used in many police forces and may be rendered Police Commissioner or Commissioner of Police. In some organizations, the commissioner is a political appointee, and may or may not actually be a professional police officer. In these circumstances, there is often a...
The Administrative Office of Thrissur City PoliceThrissur City Police
Thrissur City Police , a division of the Kerala Police, is the law enforcement agency for the city of Thrissur and the temple town of Guruvayoor. The city police force is headed by a Commissioner of Police, an IPS officer, and the administrative control vests with the Home Ministry of Kerala...
Commissioner is located in Ramavarmapuram.
The Thrissur City Police Commissionerate was formed in March 2011 by bifurcating the then existing Thrissur police district into rural and urban. The administrative jurisdiction of the City Police Commissioner covers 12 police stations including a women police station and a traffic station. These stations fall in three subdivisions, namely, Thrissur (comprising Thrissur East, Thrissur West and Ollur
Ollur
Ollur is a major suburban area and an old commercial town in the Thrissur district of Kerala state, South India. It is situated about 5 km away from Swaraj Round on National Highway 47 commonly referred to as NH47 towards Ernakulam. From ancient time onwards Ollur was a major business centre...
circles) and Guruvayur
Guruvayur
Guruvayur is a municipal town in Thrissur District, of Kerala State in India. It houses the famous Guruvayur Sree Krishna Temple, the fourth biggest temple in India in terms of the number of devotees per day.-History:Guruvayur, according to the legends may be 5,000 years old as the Guruvayur...
(comprising Peramangalam
Peramangalam
Peramangalam is an Indian village 10 kilometres away from Trichur. The district highways connecting Kozhikkode and Guruvayoor pass through this village. The famous tourist place Villangankunnu is on the south west side of this village. This village is an example of religious harmony...
and Guruvayur
Guruvayur
Guruvayur is a municipal town in Thrissur District, of Kerala State in India. It houses the famous Guruvayur Sree Krishna Temple, the fourth biggest temple in India in terms of the number of devotees per day.-History:Guruvayur, according to the legends may be 5,000 years old as the Guruvayur...
circles). P. Vijayan is the first City Police Commissioner of Thrissur.
State Institute of English, Kerala
The State Institute of English-Kerala is a state-level centre established by Government of KeralaGovernment of Kerala
The Government of Kerala is a democratically elected body that governs the State of Kerala, India for a period of 5 years. The state government is headed by the Governor of Kerala as the nominal head of state, with a democratically elected Chief Minister as real head of the executive. The state...
and functioning in Ramavarmapuram to promote English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
studies in 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....
. Though the Institute started functioning in May 2011, it was formally inaugurated by Kerala Education Minister P K Abdu Rabb only on 01 October 2011. It is an English Language Training Institute (ELTI) affiliated to English and Foreign Languages University
English and Foreign Languages University
The English and Foreign Languages University , formerly the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages , is a Central University in India. Its main campus is located in Hyderabad...
(EFL University), Hyderabad. The Institute coordinates research and training activities in English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
teaching by working in tandem with the District Centres for English at 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...
, Kollam
Kollam
Kollam , often anglicized as ', is a city in the Indian state of Kerala. The city lies on the banks of Ashtamudi Lake on the Arabian sea coast and is situated about north of the state capital, Thiruvananthapuram...
, Thrissur
Thrissur
This article is about the city in India. For the district, see Thrissur district. For the urban agglomeration area of Thrissur see Thrissur Metropolitan Area...
and Kozhikode
Kozhikode
Kozhikode During Classical antiquity and the Middle Ages, Kozhikkode was dubbed the "City of Spices" for its role as the major trading point of eastern spices. Kozhikode was once the capital of an independent kingdom of the same name and later of the erstwhile Malabar District...
. The Institute's stress is on developing and delivering methodologies for improving communication skills of students by continued training of teachers. The training sessions in the Institute utilises technology-aided English language teaching methods.
Government Engineering College, Thrissur
Government Engineering College, ThrissurGovernment Engineering College, Thrissur
The Government Engineering College Thrissur is a technical education institute in Kerala, India. It is the second oldest engineering college established in Kerala and the first engineering college to be established after the formation of Kerala State...
, is the second oldest engineering college in Kerala. It is also the first engineering college to be established after the formation of the State of Kerala.
The college started functioning in the Chembukkavu (Thrissur
Thrissur
This article is about the city in India. For the district, see Thrissur district. For the urban agglomeration area of Thrissur see Thrissur Metropolitan Area...
) campus of Maharaja's Technological Institute in 1957. The classes were shifted to the present campus in October 1960 and the college was formally inaugurated in February 1962. The present college campus is spread over an area of 75 acres (303,514.5 m²). The foundation stone of the college was laid by late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru , often referred to with the epithet of Panditji, was an Indian statesman who became the first Prime Minister of independent India and became noted for his “neutralist” policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence movement in the...
, the first Prime Minister of India
Prime Minister of India
The Prime Minister of India , as addressed to in the Constitution of India — Prime Minister for the Union, is the chief of government, head of the Council of Ministers and the leader of the majority party in parliament...
, on 26 April 1958.
The land which is now under the control of Government Engineering College, Thrissur, was originally in the hands of Parukkutty Nethyar Amma
Kingdom of Cochin
Kingdom of Cochin was a late medieval Hindu kingdom and later Princely State on the Malabar Coast, South India...
(Malayalam : പാറുക്കുട്ടി നേത്യാര് അമ്മ). She was the consort of Maharaja Rama Varma, who reigned as king of the princely state of Cochin from 1914 to 1932. After his demise in 1932 while staying in Madras (Chennai
Chennai
Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...
), Maharaja Rama Varma was popularly referred to as 'Madrassil Theepetta Thampuran'.
Vimala College, Thrissur
Prior to the de-linking of Pre-Degree Courses from the academic control of the universities,Vimala College was the only women's college in Kerala which offered exclusively graduate and post-graduate programmes. The college was presented the R Shankar Award in 2002 by the Government of Kerala for the best college in Kerala. It has been accredited with five star rating by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council, Bangalore.
District Institute for Education and Training (DIET)
As part of the National Education Policy (1986), DIETs were established in selected districts all over India in 1986. The institute in Ramavarmapuram was also established at that time. The institute is managed by the Government of Kerala with financial assistance from the Government of India. The aim of this institute is to provide academic and resource support at district level for the success of various programs being undertaken in the field of primary and adult education. The physical infrastructure now being used by the DIET in Ramavarmapuram was in the hands of the Institute of Primary Education an institution which became defunct consequent on the establishment of DIET. The Institute of Primary Education had been functioning in Ramavarmapuram since 1970.Government Hindi Teachers Training Institute
The institute under the control of Department of General Education, Government of Kerala, is conducting a course leading to the award of Diploma in Language Education (Hindi) (D L Ed (Hindi)) which is equivalent to B Ed (Hindi). There are only two other such institutes in Kerala: Government Regional Institute of Language Training, Thiruvananthapuram and Institute of Language Teacher Education run by Bharath Hindi Prachara Kendram, Adoor.District Centre of English
The Centre was established under a scheme sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt of India and implemented by the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad with the support of the State Council of Education Research and Training. The scheme provides an opportunity to all teachers of English in a district to familiarise with modern methods and techniques of teaching English. The scheme is also intended to initiate the teachers into a path of self development, to improve the standard of English among the learners and to develop a collaborative work culture among teachers.Govt Vocational Higher Secondary School
The oldest educational establishment in the area is the Govt Vocational Higher Secondary School which was started off as an Upper Primary School in 1939. The High School was started in 1960 and was upgraded to its present form in 1984. The School offers vocational courses in plant protection, nursery management and ornamental gardening, maintenance and repairs of TV and radio, and maintenance and repairs of domestic appliances. Distinguished Malayalam poets G Sankara Kurup, Vailoppilly Sreedhara Menon and Mullanezhy Neelakandan had served this school as teachers.Kendriya Vidyalaya
A Kendriya VidyalayaKendriya Vidyalaya
Kendriya Vidyalaya, is a system of central government schools under the Ministry of Human Resource Development ....
(Central School) has started functioning in the premises of Kerala Police Academy
Kerala Police Academy
Kerala Police Academy is situated in Ramavarmapuram in Thrissur city which began functioning in May, 2004. The Academy runs full-term basic courses for sub-inspectors, constables, women constables, drivers and telecommunication wing constables. It also runs short-term courses and in-service...
in Ramavarmapuram from 30 August 2010. This is the second Kendriya Vidyalaya in Thrissur District
Thrissur district
Thrissur is a revenue district of Kerala situated in the central part of that state. Spanning an area of about 3,032 km2, Thrissur district is home to over 10% of Kerala’s population. Thrissur district was formed on July 1, 1949, with the headquarters at Thrissur City. Thrissur is known as...
. The other one is located at Puranattukara
Puranattukara
Puranattukara is a census town in Thrissur district in the Indian state of Kerala.-Demographics: India census, Puranattukara had a population of 9595. Males constitute 48% of the population and females 52%. Puranattukara has an average literacy rate of 85%, higher than the national average of...
and it was established in 1985. There are a total of 34 Kendriya Vidyalayas in Kerala State of which 9 are in the Bangalore
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
Region and 25 in the Chennai
Chennai
Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...
Region of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan.
Christ Villa Poor Home
Christ Villa Poor Home for the Elderly is Kerala's first residential counseling and rehabilitationPhysical medicine and rehabilitation
Physical medicine and rehabilitation , physiatry or rehabilitation medicine, is a branch of medicine that aims to enhance and restore functional ability and quality of life to those with physical impairments or disabilities. A physician having completed training in this field is referred to as a...
centre. It was established in 1925.
Christ Villa is under the management of Thrissur Archdiocese. It was expanded in 1947 by adding St Vincent's Orphanage, an orphanage
Orphanage
An orphanage is a residential institution devoted to the care of orphans – children whose parents are deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to care for them...
for girls. Now a welfare home named Mamma Margaret's Home specifically ear-marked for women is also functioning in the same campus. The premises of the Home also houses a retreat centre of the Archdiocese, ABBA Renewal Centre
Renewal (religion)
Renewal is the collective term for Charismatic, pentecostal and neo-charismatic churches.- Neo-charismatic churches :The neo-charismatic denominations have more than a million members in China, some of them belonging to the local churches...
, founded in 2008.
The institution is partly funded by Help the Aged, UK
Help the Aged
Help the Aged was a United Kingdom based, international charity, founded in 1961 by Cecil Jackson-Cole, to free disadvantaged older people from poverty, isolation and neglect. It merged with Age Concern in 2009 to form Age UK.-Organisation and campaigns:...
and supported by HelpAge India.
Nest : Village of Comfort
This is a charitable institutionCharitable organization
A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization . It differs from other types of NPOs in that it centers on philanthropic goals A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization (NPO). It differs from other types of NPOs in that it centers on philanthropic goals A...
of Thrissur Archdiocese and is functioning in the campus of Christ Villa Poor Home. It was inaugurated in January 2007.
The clients of Nest are helped to lead a disciplined and healthy life through a combination of yoga
Yoga
Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual discipline, originating in ancient India. The goal of yoga, or of the person practicing yoga, is the attainment of a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility while meditating on Supersoul...
, meditation
Meditation
Meditation is any form of a family of practices in which practitioners train their minds or self-induce a mode of consciousness to realize some benefit....
, therapies, group and individual counseling, treatment and recreation
Recreation
Recreation is an activity of leisure, leisure being discretionary time. The "need to do something for recreation" is an essential element of human biology and psychology. Recreational activities are often done for enjoyment, amusement, or pleasure and are considered to be "fun"...
. It is organizationally divided into four wings:
Marian Clinical Counseling Institute, Mochana De-addiction Center, Bethsetha Treatment Center, Angels Rehabilitation Center.
Asha Bhavan (ആശ ഭവന്)
Asha Bhavans are institutions run by the Social Welfare Department of Govt of Kerala and they are meant for the care and protection of women who have been cured of their mental illness and who have no one to take protection of. There are three such institutions in KeralaKerala
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....
one of which is in Ramavarmapuram. Asha Bhavans at 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...
and Kozhikode
Kozhikode
Kozhikode During Classical antiquity and the Middle Ages, Kozhikkode was dubbed the "City of Spices" for its role as the major trading point of eastern spices. Kozhikode was once the capital of an independent kingdom of the same name and later of the erstwhile Malabar District...
accommodate women above the age of 13 years and Asha Bhavan at Thrissur admits women above the age of 15 years.
Mahilamandiram (മഹിളാമന്ദിരം)
This Home provides shelter to widowWidow
A widow is a woman whose spouse has died, while a widower is a man whose spouse has died. The state of having lost one's spouse to death is termed widowhood or occasionally viduity. The adjective form is widowed...
s, deserted women, divorced women and destitute women who have nobody to look after and who are of age above 13 years. Children coming with mothers are allowed to stay with them up to the age of six years. Every district in 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....
, except Idukki and Wayanad, has such a home.
Mahilamandirams are also managed by the Social Welfare Department of Govt of Kerala
Vridha Mandiram (വൃദ്ധമന്ദിരം)
Vridha Mandiram (home for the elderly) is also run by the Social Welfare department of Govt of Kerala. The Mandiram was established in 1998. It admits as inmate any person of age above 55 years who have no one to take care of. There are facilities for a maximum of 100 inmates.Other institutions
Broadcasting StationRadio stationRadio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...
of All India RadioAll India RadioAll India Radio , officially known since 1956 as Akashvani , is the radio broadcaster of India and a division of Prasar Bharati. Established in 1936, it is the sister service of Prasar Bharati's Doordarshan, the national television broadcaster. All India Radio is one of the largest radio networks...
The transmitter of the Thrissur station of All India Radio was commissioned on 4 November 1956.The station started independent broadcasting in 1974.
Doordarshan Studio
There are only two studios in Kerala. The other one is located in ThiruvananthapuramThiruvananthapuram
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...
. A low power transmitter of Doordardashan is also located near the studio.
Central Prison, Viyyur
The central jail was established in Viyyur in 1914.Prior to the establishment of the jail, the site was known as Viyyur Park. The Park housed the museum, zoo and botanical gardens which were all started in 1885. These were shifted
to their present location in Chembukavu in 1914.
There is also a Sub-Jail adjacent to Central Prison.
Government Juvenile Home
An institution established by Government of Kerala to rehabilitate children below 18 years of age who are in need of care and protection under Juvenile Justice Act 2000. Shelter, food, education, medical care, developmental opportunities and exposure for socialization/mainstreaming are the services provided in Juvenile Homes. There are 6 such institutions Kerala. Indian Medical Association (IMA)Indian Medical AssociationThe Indian Medical Association , the national organization of “Doctors of Modern Scientific System of Medicine”, was organized in 1928, and currently IMA has around 1,78,000 members belonging to different branches of medical profession and function through a network of more than 1700 local...
Blood BankBlood bankA blood bank is a cache or bank of blood or blood components, gathered as a result of blood donation, stored and preserved for later use in blood transfusion. The term "blood bank" typically refers to a division of a hospital laboratory where the storage of blood product occurs and where proper...
The IMA Blood Bank Complex and Research Centre at Ramavarmapuram is a joint project of Indian Medical Association (IMA), Thrissur and the District Panchayat, Thrissur under People’s Plan Programme. A registered charitable society called Janakeeya Samithy (Arogyam), Thrissur manages the center. The centre provides subsidised services to the economically disadvantaged sections of the population in the districts of ThrissurThrissur district
Thrissur is a revenue district of Kerala situated in the central part of that state. Spanning an area of about 3,032 km2, Thrissur district is home to over 10% of Kerala’s population. Thrissur district was formed on July 1, 1949, with the headquarters at Thrissur City. Thrissur is known as...
, Palakkad
Palakkad district
Palakkad District is one of the 14 districts of the Indian state of Kerala. The city of Palakkad is the district headquarters. Palakkad is bordered on the northwest by the Malappuram District, on the southwest by the Thrissur District and on the east by Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu. The...
and Malappuram in central Kerala. The Complex was inaugurated in October 2004.
The center was adjudged as the Best Blood Bank in Kerala by Kerala State AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
Control Society in 2008.
MILMAMilmaThe 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...
Dairy
One of the eleven dairies of Kerala Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (known by the trade name MilmaMilma
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...
) is in Ramavarmapuram. There is a well-established training centre with hostel facility attached to this dairy. This is the only such training centre in Kerala.
Vigyan Sagar : S&T Park
Ramavarmapuram has been chosen as the site of a modern planetariumPlanetarium
A planetarium is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation...
and a science and technology park to be constructed under the auspices of Thrissur District Panchayath. The project christened Vigyan Sagar is expected to cost Rupees twenty crores. The State Government has allocated 3.6 hectares of land, on the compound of the District Institute for Education and Training for setting up the planetarium and park. Kerala Legislative Assembly Speaker K. Radhakrishnan inaugurated the Administrative Block of Vigyan Sagar on 1 August 2010.
Other places named Ramavarmapuram
- A village in Palakkad DistrictPalakkad districtPalakkad District is one of the 14 districts of the Indian state of Kerala. The city of Palakkad is the district headquarters. Palakkad is bordered on the northwest by the Malappuram District, on the southwest by the Thrissur District and on the east by Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu. The...
in Kerala is named Ramavarmapuram Pudur (PINPostal Index NumberA Postal Index Number or PIN or Pincode is the post office numbering or post code system used by India Post, the Indian postal administration. PIN stands for Postal Index Number and the code is 6 digits long. The PIN was introduced on August 15, 1972.-Structure:There are nine PIN zones in India,...
:678555) - A locality in Thiruvananthapuram CityThiruvananthapuramThiruvananthapuram , 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...
is called Ramavarmapuram. - An area of NagercoilNagercoilNagercoil is the 12th largest city in the southernmost Indian state of Tamil Nadu and a municipality and administrative headquarters of Kanyakumari District...
Town in Tamil NaduTamil NaduTamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...
is known as Ramavarmapuram. - The original name of the public market of KoothattukulamKoothattukulamKoothattukulam is situated in the Muvattupuzha Taluk, towards the South East corner of Ernakulam district in Kerala, South India. The town lies 50km south east of Kochi City, 17 km to the south of Muvattupuzha, and 35 kilometres east of Kottayam town and lies on the M.C. Road. It lies at the...
founded during the time of His Royal Highness Sree Moolam Thirunal Maharaja of TravancoreTravancoreKingdom of Travancore was a former Hindu feudal kingdom and Indian Princely State with its capital at Padmanabhapuram or Trivandrum ruled by the Travancore Royal Family. The Kingdom of Travancore comprised most of modern day southern Kerala, Kanyakumari district, and the southernmost parts of...
is Sree Ramavarmapuram Market. - A marketplace near Neeravil, PerinadPerinad-Demographics: India census, Perinad had a population of 32864 with 16032 males and 16832 females.Perinad is a fast growing village at the outskirts of Kollam city. The Perinad panchayath office is about 13 km away from Kollam City center. The important towns in the Panchayath are...
in Kollam districtKollam district-Climate:Kollam's temperature is almost steady throughout the year. The average temperature ranges from 25 to 32 degrees Celsius. Summer usually runs from March until May; the monsoon begins by June and ends by September. Kollam receives an annual average rainfall of around...
in Kerala is known as Sree Ramavarmapuram Market.