Kulathupuzha

Kulathupuzha
Kulathupuzha
	Panchayat 'A' Grade
	Kulathupuzha Sastha temple
	Kulathupuzha Location in Kerala, India Kulathupuzha Kulathupuzha (India)
	Coordinates: 8.9082295°N 77.055501°E
Country	India
State	Kerala
District	Kollam
Government
• Type	Gram panchayat
Area
• Total	424.06 km2 (163.73 sq mi)
Population (2001)
• Total	33,271
• Density	78/km2 (200/sq mi)
Languages
• Official	Malayalam, English
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	691310
Vehicle registration	KL-25
Nearest city	Punalur
Literacy	86.62%

Kulathupuzha is a Largest Township in the eastern part of (Quilon)Kollam district in Kerala, India.One of the Largest Panchayat in the district and State by area. This town is situated on the Thiruvananthapuram – Shenkottai "SH-2" road State Highway-2 and Thiruvananthapuram-kasaragod "SH-59" State Highway-59. Kulathupuzha is 62 km away from Thiruvananthapuram State Capital and 58 km away from Kollam District Capital. 9 km to Thenmala eco tourism [1]http://lsgkerala.in/kulathupuzhapanchayat/

Kulathupuzha is the birthplace of the Malayalam music legend "Raveendran Master"RAVEENDRAN. It is famous for Sastha temple here, its river fishes and pristine forest with exotic Myristica swamps, High-Tech Dairy Farm of the Kerala Livestock Development Board (indo-Swiss project) Rubber Plantations(RPL, Kerala & Government of India Joint Venture),Oil Palm of India plantations (Kerala Government 51% Government Of India 49% Joint Venture) "Sanjeevani"(Kerala Forest Department),Fresh Water Fish Hatchery (Kerala Fisheries Department),Sam Oommen Memorial Technical High School (SOM GTHS),Inspection Bungalow & Canteen (I B,PWD Department)

Kulathupuzha Temple

Kulathupuzha is well known for the Sastha temple. The presiding deity at the Kulathupuzha Temple is known as Bala Sastha who is Lord Hariharaputra. The Vishu Mahotsavam in April is the most important festival of this temple. The temple legend is intertwined with fishes in nearby river.

Kulathupuzha Reserve Forest

Kulathupuzha forms a part of the southernmost reserve forests of the State, falling in the SOI sheet No. 58 H/1. Kulathupuzha reserve covers an area under 1000 km². Its forest constitutes predominantly of tropical wet - and semi - evergreens and moist deciduous types. Apart from settlements, some parts are occupied by Forest departmental plantations mainly of teak, eucalyptus and acacia. The plantations are grown by planting saplings on cleared natural forests. Plantations are raised to sustain and supplement the timber needs of a few industries in the State. popularly known as the Rakoodu Estate (Rock Wood Estate) is near Kulathupuzha. Senthurini Wilde Life Sanctuary is near Kulathupuzha. Kallar estate is one of the famous tea estates left over from British ruling times. A British bungalows is there.

Kulathupuzha forests have the largest variety of exotic Myristica Swamp freshwater variety swamp in Kerala. Besides Kulathupuzha it is found in India only at Idukki Uttara Kannada and Shivaliks Himalayas.

Also the forest is the origin of Ithikara and Kallada rivers.

Transport

Road

Connected with all major towns nearby by Roads. KSRTC and private buses connect the town to Trivandrum-Kollam-Thenkasi and Punalur. KSRTC have one of Kerala's biggest depot here. It is the largest depot in Kollam District

Railway

9 kilometers to Thenmala Railway Station.

Airport

Nearest Airport is at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport(TRV)

High-Tech Dairy Farm

Hi-tech dairy farm at Kulathupuzha established by KLDB is the first hi-tech dairy farm in India under government sector. It will be a model hi-tech bull mother dairy farm with all the latest technologies on feeding, milking, shed management and recording practices as a model in the state for production of bull calves for breeding programme and supply of high producing females calves to farmers by importing Embryos, Frozen Semen, and Sexed semen.

Sanjeevani,Kulathupuzha

It is a conservation site of medicinal plants managed by Kerala Forest Department, Kollam Social Forestry Division. About 400 rare, endemic and indigenous medicinal species are conserved and protected here. All the species are well labelled so as to get basic information about the plant and its usage. Ayurveda students, college students, local medical practitioners and common people can make use of this medicinal garden. Now the garden is renovated and a well organised demonstration plot is created here. moreover now the visitors can enjoy a one kilometer light trekking through the natural forest which is the part of the garden.

Economy

Malayalam Wiki source school students competition at SOM Govt Technical High School, Kulathupuzha

1) Rubber Plantations 2) NRI Remittances(Large number of NRI's in UAE) 3) Oil Plam of India 4) KLD indo-Swiss Protect 5) Timber Depo

References

"Kulathupuzha grama panchayath - general information". lsgkerala.in. Retrieved 17 November 2016.

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[1] "Kulathupuzha grama panchayath - general information". lsgkerala.in. Retrieved 17 November 2016.