Saturday, March 27, 2004
Payyanur: A shopping festival called "Payyanur Utsavam" will be conducted every year by the municipal administration at Payyanur. This was stated in the municipal budget for the year 2004-05 presented yesterday. The festival is expected to promote the commerce, industry and the heritage of Payyanur.
Payyanur: The Payyanur municipality passed the budget for the year 2004-05 yesterday. The budget includes a massive town development plan. Rs 25 lakhs will be spent for the various projects for the development of the town while Rs 50 lakhs will be used for the acquisition of land for various projects. A bus terminal along with three storied shopping complex will be constructed at the proposed bus stand at an estimated cost of Rs 60 lakhs while a parking structure will be constructed at a cost of Rs 61 lakhs at the existing busstand. A mini stadium (Rs 81 lakhs),town hall (62 lakhs), bulding for govt hospital (32 lakhs) etc also found space in the budget.
Thursday, March 25, 2004
Payyanur: All temples and kavus are ready for the celebration of Pooram festival. The nine day long festival, to propitiate Kamadeva ( the god of love), begins with the Karthika asterism and concludes on the pooram asterism of the Malayalam month of Meenam (Pisces). This year it will be from 25th March to 3rd April. During the festival days the image of Kamadeva (the god of love) is installed in every Hindu home and maidens offer pooja. The Pooram season is an occasion for rejoicing and merrymaking. interesting features of the Pooram festival are the poora vilakku,poorakanji, poorakkali and marathukali (scholarly debates on grammar, literature and mythology. Maruthukali is fed by two Panikkars -eminent artistes who are well versed in mythology, grammar and music . The main venue of Pooram festival in Kannur district are at Valapattanam Kalarivathukkal temple and Madayikavu. At Payyanur the major venue is at Annur Sri Talayanneri Pooomala Bhagavathy Kavu along with many other bhagavathy temples of the region.
To know more about Pooram Festival please visit www.poorakkali.com
Payyanur: The famous Uroos festival of Pulingome Makham will begin today. Hundreds of devotees of various caste and creed will fled to this sacred place situated on the banks of Karyankode River and on the valley of Karnataka Hills seeking blessings. Elaborate arrangments like drinking water, huge pandals to accomodate hundreds of devotees, special buses to major locations etc have been done to make the pilgrimage easy and convenient. Mass dining for ten thousand people will be held on 28th March. Minister MA Kuttappan will inaugurate the Souhruda Sangamam on the same day.
Payyanur: The Payyanur Fire Station will have a new own building soon. The works of the new building being constructed at Moorikkovval is in the final phase. The inauguration of the new building will be conducted immediately after the Lok Sabha elections. The new building is constructed by the Kerala Construction Corporation. It will have garage to accommodate five fire engines, watch-room, file-room, offices and rest-rooms. A water tank to reserve water for emergency situations is also available in the new structure. The fire-station is struggling with lack of space in the present rented building. Being located in the heart of the town, many times it was very difficult to get access for the fire engines to rush to the spots due to the heavy traffic jams of the town.
Payyanur: The Budda Statue erected in front of the Payyanur Government Vocational Higher Secondary School will be unveiled on 30th March, 2004. The 6 feet statue was erected by Soorya Trust. The statue was made by artist Damodaran Vellora using concrete. The statue will be unveiled by Principal Shri K.V. Raghavan at 09.00 am.
Payyanur: The Indiraji Co-operative Hospital at Payyanur was forced to close due to the infighting of two Congress factions and the hospital equipment were shifted to a rented property.
Since rent was not being paid regularly to the rented property, the building owner asked to vacate the premises and the valued hospital equipment are dumped in the Court Building Varanda at Payyanur.
The well functioning hospital came to this fate due to the infighting of groups in the managing committee.
Payyanur: The public school started by the Pariyaram Medical College managment inside their campus entered into its second year successfully. Last year the school was started with Play school and LKG only. It will have upto fourth standard following the CBSE syllbus from next academic year onwards. The fees will be Rs 1200 per year for Play School and LKG while it will be Rs 1500 for 1st to 4th standards.
Payyanur: The Society for Environmental Education in Kerala (SEEK) has urged the district authorities to take urgent steps to check ongoing reclamation of midland laterite hills in the district.
In a representation to the District Collector, K.S. Srinivas, the SEEK Director, T.P. Padmanabhan, said that the people living in Echilamvayal, Payyannur were facing the problem of water scarcity as water table in the area was declining. The depletion of water table in the area was suspected to have been caused by the massive reclamation of the laterite hills in the area diggers, he said.
K.V. Bhaskaran, a local environmental activist, had been brutally attacked on Tuesday by a group of workers engaged in the reclamation work when the former tried to stop the workers, the representation said. Most of the diggers and tipper lorries in the district were unauthorised, he said.
Sunday, March 21, 2004
Payyanur: A function was organised at Annur to remember the late KMK (KM Kunhambu) , the famous freedom fighter, drama artist and writer. PG Annur presided over the function held at KMK Memorial Kala Samithi at Annur. Dr E Sreedharan, K Kunhiraman, V Kunhikannan, Athayi Narayana Poduval, TCV Balakrishnan and KK Gangadharan spoke a the function. Acaedmy award winners KU RamaPoduval, V Chandrasekharan Vaidyar, Paattakkaran Kannan, Ambu Panikkar were honoured at this function. B Muhammad Ahmed presented the momentos to the award winners.
