Panayikulam | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | India Kerala#India |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Kerala, India |
Coordinates: | 10.1°N 76.3°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | India |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Kerala |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Ernakulam |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Demographics Type1: | Languages |
Demographics1 Title1: | Official |
Demographics1 Info1: | Malayalam, English |
Timezone1: | IST |
Utc Offset1: | +5:30 |
Postal Code Type: | PIN |
Postal Code: | 683511 |
Area Code Type: | Telephone code |
Area Code: | 0484 |
Registration Plate: | KL-41 |
Blank1 Name Sec1: | Nearest city |
Blank1 Info Sec1: | Kochi |
Blank2 Name Sec1: | Literacy |
Blank2 Info Sec1: | 100% |
Blank3 Name Sec1: | Lok Sabha constituency |
Blank3 Info Sec1: | Ernakulam |
Panayikulam is a small village which falls in the Alangad Grama Panchayat, Paravur Taluk, Kerala, India. It is just near to Aluva town. A nice place to live in, easily accessible to Aluva Railway Station at 7 km, Nedumbassery International Airport 10 km and the Kochi City at 15 km. It is a preferred residential locality due to its proximity to the industrial areas, viz Binanipuram, Eloor and Kalamassery, where major factories like FACT, HMT, HIL, TCC, Binani, CMRL etc., are situated. Can commute on daily basis to the InfoPark, Kochi which is almost 12 km away. The place is providing its residents with pure water with no salinity in it and plain beautiful land very close to the Periyar River. It is the birthplace of film director/actor Althaf Salim. It is also the birthplace of Azeez Chollampat, a Silicon valley (USA) entrepreneur who has successfully started and succeeded one Silicon IP company and two cutting edge software companies and now the founder and CEO of Exalture Software Labs Inc. headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA, the company also has a software development center focused one Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Kochi Info Park.
The people here mainly rely on agriculture. Panayikulam is well known for the cultivation of Snap Melon (Pottuvellari). Panayikulam is home to a lot of Non Resident Indians.
Government LP School, Little Flower High School, St. Benedict Nursery School, Alhuda School and Viswadeepti Vidyalaya are the institutions, the village depend for their primary education. After school students has accessibility to other educational institutions like Union Christian College, St. Xavier's College for Women, Cochin University of Science and Technology, MES College Marampally, St.Puls College etc.
Little Flower Church, Panayikulam Juma Masjid, Salafi Masgid Panayikulam, Marayil Temple, Mahavishnu Temple, Al Huda Masjid, Panayikulam Central Masjid. Panaikulam is the nearest bus route to visit Kunnel Palli (Infant Jesus Church).