Villivakkam
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| ?Villivakkam Chennai • Tamil Nadu • India |
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| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| Area • Elevation |
• 13 m (43 ft) |
| District(s) | Chennai |
| M.L.A | B. Ranganathan |
| Codes • Pincode |
• 600049 |
Coordinates: The biggest state assembly constituency in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Villivakkam covers an area from Annanagar in south and Madavaram in north, Ayanavaram in east and Korattur in west. Since this is within the Chennai City limits and close to Integral Coach Factory & Ambattur Industrial Estate, many people have migrated and settled in Villivakkam.
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[edit] Culture
There are three temples in villivakkam which holds a very good history behind and are renowned for its traditional, spiritual and cultural heritage. They are as follows, Agatheeswerar Temple, BaaliAmman Temple and Soumiya Damodara Perumal Temple. The Masjid -eh -Rahmaniya Mosque and The Sacred Heart Church in Srinivasa Nagar are also places worth visiting. The presence of these places of worship and the annual fests celebrated there, exhibits the secular and humanitarian nature of the people of Villivakkam to the world.
[edit] Transport
[edit] Road
JN Road (100 feet Road) and MTH Road (NH 205) junction, connects Chennai and other town through one side and KHR and New Avadi Road to the other side, reaching Villivakkam by road is very easy form any part of Chennai.
There is a Metro Transport Bus terminus, which runs frequent services to other part of the City. The various routes of busses from villivakkam are:
22 : Villivakkam - Anna Square 27D : Villivakkam - Foreshore estate
20 : Villivakkam - Broadway
23V : Villivakkam - Velachery
48 : Villivakkam - Vallalar Nagar
47 : Villivakkam - Adayar
47B : Villivakkam - Besant Nagar
27K : Villivakkam - Foreshore estate (via appolo hospital)
[edit] Railways
Chennai suburban railway station at Villivakkam is between the segment of Chennai Central and Arakkonam Junction, and just 10Km from Central, there are Suburban services to Central, Beach, Mylapore and Annanagar, Avadi , Tiruvallur, Arakkonam. The link from Chennai to Arakkonam junction is the oldest rail in South India.
[edit] Education
[edit] Schools
Children at Villivakkam have a plenty of well established Schools to cater to their educational needs.The Sri.v.Batcha Reddy.Hr.Sec.School Near Kallukadai Stop . The Singaram Pillai Mat.Hr.Sec.School is one of the oldest and famous schools in Villivakkam having students from diverse backgrounds and from ambient areas. Here Education is offered at an affordable price. There are many more schools to add such as St. John's Matriculation higher secondary school, Don Bosco Matriculation Higher Secondary at Srinivasa Nagar, ICF H.S.SCHOOL, M A Krishnaswamy Matric Hr. Sec school, John Williams Matriculation School,Our Lady of velanganni Mat Hr Sec School,St.Thomas Primary School, Good will Mat.Hr.Sec.School and Padma sarangapani which impart all forms of good education that is needed to make children as full fledged individuals. Don Bosco and St. John's are the famous schools at this area producing good academic results in in public examinations.
[edit] Entertainment
There are few entertainment cine halls present, like Royal (now changed as multiplex with four theaters) , Nathamuni, Ganga(near to villivakkam) and few others.
The ground in Singaram pillai School, and V- Ground between the rail tracks and grounds in ICF very famous for boys and girls play football, cricket and other sports. The Tennis court at Singaram pillai school offers high quality coaching to the boys and girls.
[edit] ATMs
IOB BANK VILLIVAKKAM(near to railway & bus station),ICICI BANK NEAR NADAMUNI THEATRE,Couple of CANARA BANK atms near Villivakkam Bus Stand, INDIAN BANK VILLIVAKKAM RAILWAY STATION, UTI BANK ICF BUS STAND,
SBI ATM Near Spencer daily, And ING Vysya Bank and ATM in Opp. to Villivalkam police station. All leading banks(public sector and private) have ATMs in Anna Nagar too.
[edit] Hospitals
Heathcare needs are catered to by hospitals like Mohan Reddy Nursing Home, Kaveri Trust Hospitals, Nirmal Poly Clinic, Leela raj Mternity Clinic and the DRJ hospitals. On a special note the famous Paediatrician Dr.Anandaraj resides in villivakkam offering the people in and around the best healthcare service in paediatrics. I.C.F Hospital located near the ICF terminus offers good quality of health services to the family members of I.C.F employees.
[edit] Other Areas
Sidco nagar, Baba nagar, North Jagannathan Nagar and Thirunagar are some of the largest residential areas in this zone
[edit] See also
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In addition AGATHIAR NAGAR is also one of the famour place in Villivakkam, here you can see the Double tank(Water Supply) from this tank the metro water will go to various areas, it is one of the most highest tank compared to other. In this area you can find the separate play ground for the young children's,In every 26th of January they are celebrating the Sports event for children's, youngsters, housewives and old one also these activities are conducted by the youngstar soprts association.Temples like Vinay Theerkum Vinayagar and Balamurugan temples are situated here, every year end of the January celebrating the Viluku Pooja for the women's. Annanagar Railway station is very near to this area from here Koyambedu is very close and Annanagar west bus terminas. The famous and old theatre is Nathamuni.Famous Kalyana Mahal Kamakodi also situated here....
[edit] External links
| Villivakkam | |||
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| Next station east: Perambur Loco Works |
Chennai suburban railway: West line | Next station west: Korattur |
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| Stop number: 7 | KM from starting: {{{5}}} | ||
| These are the stations of Chennai suburban railway – West line |
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