Mayyil is a Census Town and Grama Panchayat in Kannur District of Kerala State. Mayyil Panchayat established in 1962 by merging the villages of Kayaralam, Mayyil and Kandakkai.[3][4]
Mayyil Panchayat is part of IrikkurBlock Panchayat. Mayyil is politically a part of Taliparamba Assembly constituency under Kannur Loksabha constituency.[6]
Transportation
The national highway(NH 66) passes through Puthiyatheru (15 km South West), Dharmasala (11 km West), Taliparamba (13 km North West) 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 (Mattannur) is 22 km away from Mayyil, and the proposed 4 line airport road from Taliparamba to Mattannur passes through Mayyil.
Demographics
As of 2011 Indian census, Mayyil census town had population of 12,490 among which 5,768 are males and 6,722 are females. Total geographic area of mayyil census town is 12.77 km2 (4.93 sq mi). Population of age group in 0-6 was 1,557 (12.5%) which constitutes 771 males and 786 females. Literacy rate of Mayyil town was 92.7% lower than state average of 94% where male literacy was 96.2% while female literacy rate was 89.7%.
Mayyil Grama Panchayat had total population of 29,649 which constitutes 13,810 males and 15,839 with an area spreads over 33.1 km2 (12.8 sq mi) and 6,387 households. Mayyil panchayat has administration over Mayyil census town (urban) and Kayaralam village (rural).[7]
As of 2011 India census, Mayyil census town had total population of 12,490 which constitute 59.8% Hindus, 40% Muslims and 0.2% others.[8]
Geography
Mayyil is surrounded by around half of its boundary by Valapattanam river.
Libraries
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 km2 (12.77 sq mi) with a literacy rate of 93.52 percent, boasts 34 functioning libraries, the highest for a local body in Kerala state.[9][10]
^Kerala, Directorate of Census Operations. District Census Handbook, Kannur(PDF). Thiruvananthapuram: Directorate of Census Operations, Kerala. p. 180,181,278,279. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
