Nattika

Nattika നാട്ടിക attakuzhi bandhar kadapuram
village
Nattika Location in Kerala, India
Coordinates: 10°25′13″N 76°06′16″E / 10.4202291°N 76.1045802°E / 10.4202291; 76.1045802Coordinates: 10°25′13″N 76°06′16″E / 10.4202291°N 76.1045802°E / 10.4202291; 76.1045802
Country	India
State	Kerala
District	Thrissur
Languages
• Official	Malayalam, English
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
Vehicle registration	Thrissur: KL-08, Irinjalakuda: KL-45, Guruvayur: KL-46, Kodungalloor: KL-47
Nearest city	Triprayar
Lok Sabha constituency	Thrissur

Nattika is a small village in Thrissur district of Kerala state, south India. It is centrally located about 25 km from Thrissur, Kodungallur, Irinjalakuda,Kunnamkulam and Guruvayur. Nattika is beside the arabian sea. There is a beautiful beach in this village called Nattika Beach.Nattika beach was known as Attakuzhi bandhar kadapuram before. Nattika is on the west coast of Thrissur.Canoly canal is the eastern border of Nattika. There is a private bus stand in Triprayar.Nattika is 60 km away from cochin air port and 25 km away from Trichur railway station.modern transportation and better communication facilities are available in the village.This is an assembly constituency.

Overview

Places of worship
The Shree Rama temple of Triprayar is in Nattika Panchayat. This temple has got the biggest Shree Rama shrine in South India. This is considered to be a very holy place for Hindus. Nattika Sree Arikiri Bhagavathy temple is the famous Bhadra Kali temple in Nattika. There are lot of temples in Nattika Like Eyyani Annapoorneswari temple, Sree Durga Devi Kshethram Nattika (Vaily), Netrakovil Siva temple, Vazhakulam temple,Arikiri temple, Arayam parambil temple, Panakkal Pandikasalakkal Durga Bhagavati temple, Nagadevata temple, Eran Samajam Temple,Erachan Sree Bhadrakali temple, Thottupura Temple etc.There is a famous Mosque also at Nattika Beach. This was built at least three hundred years ago and was renovated around 1985.Nattika beach Yaseen masjid is another mosque in this area.

Educational Institutions
There is a college named Shree Narayana College (S.N. College)in Nattika and a Poly Technic at Triprayar named Shree Rama Poly Technic,poet poovachal kadar and gulfar muhammadali were the students of the polytecnic.S N Trust Senior Secondary School which caters students up to plus one and plus two. There is a very old school at Nattika Beach (Triprayar Beach) called Govt. Fisheries School. This school is attached with a Teachers Training centre & B.Ed centre affiliated to the Calicut University. This school was founded almost a hundred years ago by prominent people in the village. Some of among them were Mr.Panakkal Velandi,Kohinoor Abdul Kader,K.P Saidu and Kanchira Parambhil Theyyan. Later on, the Govt took over the school somewhere in the 1990s.Govt.mapila LP school is another school in Nattika.Nattika West KMUP School is one of famous school in NattikAnother private school which has come up is Lemer found by one of the prominent businessmen hailed from the same village, Padmasree M.A.Yousuf Ali.Shoukathul islam madrasa is one of the muslim institution in this area.

There is a all India famous vollyball stadium named TSGA indoor stadium in triprayar.

Social Milieu
You can see people from all religions & castes in Nattika like Hindus, Muslims and Christians. There are a lot of people belonging to the Araya Community as fishing is a major activity here.

At Nattika Beach every year a big celebration, Oruma, is held by the Kerala Govt. for promoting tourism. This programme runs for a week and thousands of people come to see and participate in this festival. Many elephants are decorated and brought for this festival and there are different types of cultural programmes performed by famous artistes in many fields. At least 50 lakh Rupees is spent by Kerala Govt for this.

Nattika beach is a 3 km long White sandy beautiful beach and fishing is carried on here and now, there are two resorts and lots of tourists come for sight seeing & recreation.Nattika beach is the only one beach in Trichur district,it has the stright road from national highway 17.there is no any bent in this road. East Tipu sulthan road and west Tipu sulthan road are passes through the beautiful village.Most number of people from here work in the Gulf Countries and the remittances from abroad is very high in this area.many youths from all over Kerala come to the village for getting visa from padmasree M A Yussufali to go to abroad. Most people in this village are educated and well wishers. You can see beautiful Individual Villas and Bungalows are used by the village people for living. Another claim to fame is that the evergreen classic Malayalam Movie "Chemmeen" was shot here...second part of the film also shot here.

Politics

Nattika assembly constituency is part of Trichur (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

T.N.Prathapan,krishnan kaniyam parambil,C.A.Muhammad rasheed,K.V.Pithaambaran,Pulikal Ani and sadiqali are the famous politicians from Nattika.

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