Puthur is a residential area in the Palakkad district, in the state of Kerala, India. Puthur comprises the wards 12 and 13 of Palakkad Municipality.
The central attraction of Puthur is the Thirupuraikkal Bhagavathy temple. This temple houses the Goddess Karnaki, who is believed to be an incarnation of Goddess Parvathi.
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Shekharipuram is a residential area in Palakkad, in the Indian state of Kerala. Sekharipuram is famous for its agraharam. The Calicut bypass road which starts from Sekharipuram is a four lane bypass road constructed for the vehicles coming from other parts of Kerala going towards Tamil Nadu side by bypassing Palakkad town.
Sekharipuram is arguably the oldest of all the eighteen villages in palakkad town. History indicates that several hundred years ago a large number of Tamil Brahmins from Thanjavur, Trichy and Kumbakonam migrated via Madurai and Pollachi and settled in Palakkad and established the 108 agraharams of the district, of which 18 are in the Palakkad town. Each of these villages has a temple as the nucleus and several streets consisting of row houses with common walls for adjacent houses.
One of them is the agraharam of Sekharipuram, which lies adjacent to another famous Tamil agraharam, Kalpathy.
Sekharipuram consists of five large streets with five temples. The main temple is that of the presiding deity Lord Lakshminarayana with Bhoomi Devi and Lakshmi Devi. Other temples are those of Lord Mahaganapathy, Lord Hariharaputhra, Lord Shiva, and Goddess Emoor Bhagavathi.
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Pandit Mothilal Government Model Higher Secondary School is a school in the city of Palakkad, Kerala, India. It is situated near the Government Victoria College, Palakkad. It is under the management of the Kerala Department of Education. PMGM HSS is a primary, secondary and higher secondary co-educational school.
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Chembai Memorial Government Music College, Palakkad, Kerala was established in 1957 as Government Music Academy offering Bachelor degree courses in Music, Veena, Violin and Mridangam and Master Degree course in Music.
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The Government Victoria College in Palakkad is an institution of higher learning in the Malabar region of Kerala. It is affiliated to the Calicut University and provides undergraduate and postgraduate education in science, arts and commerce subjects. The college is ranked 84th among colleges in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2024.
The institution was started in the year 1866.
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Stadium Bus Stand is located on the heart of the Palakkad City, near the Indira Gandhi Municipal Stadium in Kerala, India.
Stadium Bus Stand is the largest Private Bus Stand in the city of Palakkad. Palakkad City has four Bus Stations includes Palakkad KSRTC bus station and three private Bus stands named Stadium bus stand, municipal bus stand, and town bus stand.
Small and executive restaurants, hotels, and shopping centres are close by the stand.
This temple is famous locally and attracts thousands of devotees every year to the Puthur-Vela festival. The Palakkad-Ponnani Road and Malampuzha Road are some of the major roads that link the suburb to other cities for convenient and easy traveling. The places situated nearby to Puthur are Chittur-Thathamangalam, Palakkad, Ottappalam and Shoranur.
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