Mayyil


Mayyil is a Grama Panchayat in Kannur District of Kerala State, established in 1962 by merging the villages of Kayaralam, Mayyil and Kandakkai. It belongs to Irikkur block and Taliparamba assembly constituency.

Location

Mayyil is situated 20 km North East of District HQ Kannur, 13 km South East of Taliparamba, 20 km North West of Mattannur, 13 km South West of Sreekandapuram and 16 km West of Irikkur.

Educational institutions

The national highway passes through Puthiyatheru, Dharmasala, Taliparamba away from Mayyil Town.Goa and Mumbai can be accessed on the northern side and Cochin and Thiruvananthapuram can be accessed on the southern side. The road to the east of Iritty connects to Mysore and Bangalore. The nearest railway station is Kannur on Mangalore-Palakkad line.
Trains are available to almost all parts of India subject to advance booking over the internet. There are airports at Mattanur, Mangalore and Calicut. All of them are international airports but direct flights are available only to Middle Eastern countries. Newly inaugurated Kannur International Airport is 22 kms away from Mayyil, and the proposed 4 line airport road from Taliparamba to Mattannur passes through Mayyil.
Mayyil is surrounded by around half of its boundary by Valapattanam river. Beautiful River banks and Islands are seeking tourists.
More Facts On Google Earth, Mayyil looks just like any other village in North Malabar: lush, green and dotted with rivulets, hillocks and small shops. On the ground, this looks a lot different, especially when you start reading the signs. 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 33.08 sq km with a literacy rate of a a97.93 per cent, boasts 34 functioning libraries, arguably the highest for a local body in the country.
“Libraries are a way of life for us here. Every library competes with each other to organise literary events, social gatherings and political meets in order to make the people more progressive, culturally sensitive and secular,” says U Janardhanan, a retired government employee, sitting inside the modest librarian’s room at the public library in Mayyil’s Velam, a beautiful village also famous for its ancient Sri Maha Ganapati Temple.

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