NADUVOORKARAI VILLAGE

          Naduvoorkarai is a tiny village in mondaikad town panchayat in Kannyakumari district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The village is located 22 kilometers away from the District Headquarters, Nagercoil. The nearby main bus-stations are Monday Market, Colachel, Manavalakurichy and Karungal. The nearest airport is Trivandrum International Airport and railway station is at Eraniel – 8 km away from the village. It is rich green because of its thick vegetation and the evergreen forest that covers the hills and mountains and externally surrounded by oceans, Indian Ocean in the south, Bay of Bengal at the east and Arabic sea at the west. It impresses anyone with its green fields stretching for miles together, rubber estates and other plantations at the mountainsides and coconut groves along the seacoast. They give a happy blend of richly varied natural beauty and ineffable vigour of human life. Once, it was part of the Kerala State; but it has been annexed to Tamil Nadu for political reasons. Hence, it enjoys diverse culture and multilingual opportunities. Naduvoorkarai proudly offers a “Sivasakthi Temple” & Mondaikad offers an "Amman Temple", which is described as the "Sabarimalai of Women". The age-old AVM canal (along the coast) once connected Kannyakumari District, Tamilnadu and Kerala state through water transport. Coconut groves, stretching along the coast, feed the people inland, whereas fishing feeds the coastal people. A good number of Higher Secondary Schools are located nearby the village. The "Indian Rare Earths Limited" at Manavalakurichy is a major industry of central government undertaking. The people of the locality mainly are ordinary labourers and coolies, who earn their daily bread in kiln factories. Nearby tourist destinations include Mondaikad Bagavathi Amman temple, Padmanabhapuram Palace, Sanguthurai Beach, Manavalakurichy, Muttom beach and Nagercoil.

NEAREST GOVERNMENT OFFICES:

Post Office - Mondaikad Post 629252 (Near SUS Auditorium, Mondaikad

Magistrate Court / Civil Court (Stop: Eraniel Court)

Police Station / Women Police Station (Lakshmipuram)

Telephone Exchange (BSNL) (at Neyyoor Road)

NEAREST TEMPLES:

Lord Sivasakthi Temple

The temple of Sivasakthi is one of the most famous shrines of South India and is situated in the village of Naduvoorkarai. Originally known as Naduvoorkarai Arulmigu Sivasakthi temple, the village lies on the shores of Arabian Sea. The temple is century old and the story behind the temple is an interesting one. Once lord Shiva and Sakthi were returning home after serving food to all living beings and they felt tired and decided to take rest and they searched for a calm place, since village Naduvoorkarai has beautiful evergreen trees and water canals they selected this place and rested for awhile. Initially the statue of the god was in sleeping state, but now the statue was in sitting state after the revamp of temple in 2005. The temple has a beautiful architecture and has inscriptions that depict various gods. The temple has separate devotional place for Lord Ganesha , Lord Bairava, Lord Sastha and Navagrahas.

Famous ShivaSakthi Temple

Ancient temple-Naduvoorkarai

Radhakrishnan Temple—Centre of Thingalnagar Town near to K.Kamaraj bus stand.

Vellimalai Temple—located above the mountain devoted lord Murugan.

Mandaikadu Baghavathi Amman temple one of the famous known temples in Tamil Nadu also called in kerala as women's Ayyapan temple specially located near Seashore, distance up to 4 KM from Thingalnagar.

Mandaikadu Baghavathi Amman temple

Palkulam kanda sastha Temple

Palkulathankarai Pillayar Temple

Sastha pond in mondaikad

       The Mandaikadu Bhagavathi Amman Temple is one of the famous temples of Kanyakumari District. The temple, which is commonly known as women’s Sabrimala, is situated in Mandaikadu near Eraniel Railway Station in the Thiruvananthapuram – Kanniyakumari railway route. There is a 10 days grand festival is celebrated in the date of March 4 to March 13, in which thousands of people and devotees, especially women from South Kerala are expected to participate. During festival times the pilgrims will find difficulties in transportation. If the Southern railway kindly makes more arrangements to introduce a special passenger train from Kollam to Eraniel/Nagercoil, this will definitely help people those who visit the temple. Hence, we kindly request the Southern Railway to make arrangements to operate a special train during the festival season of Mandaikadu Bhagavathi Amman temple.

The Southern railway can consider extending the following trains for the purpose (only on festival days).
1. Nagercoil – Trivandrum(56310) passenger train up to Kollam
2. Kollam – Trivandrum (56307) passenger up to Nagercoil/Eraniel.
3. Kollam – Nagercoil day time passenger Special train

NEAREST CHURCHES:

Kannalamman church, puthoor one of the oldest church built in south India .

St Antony’s Church in paruthivillai was recently rebuilt. One of the famous churches in Tamil Nadu, the church is surrounded by a green garden.

Kannalamman church, puthoor

NEAREST ATM:

State Bank of India, Manavalakurichy.

State Bank of India, Thingalnagar.

Indian Overseas Bank, Eraniel (Near SBI)

Tamil Nadu Mercantile Bank, Thingalnagar (Near SBI)

ICICI Bank, Thingalnagar (Near SBI)

FEDERAL Bank, Thingalnagar (Near Roundana).

GOVERNMENT PRIMARY HEALTH CENTRE:

Government Primary Health Centre, Naduvoorkarai is located in Cheramangalam village. The PHCs are established and maintained by the State Governments under the Minimum Needs Program  (MNP) and Basic Minimum Services Program (BMS). The basic objective of the Health and Medical Department is to provide accessible, affordable and acceptable health care in rural and urban areas.

Primary Health Centre 

YOUTH CLUB:

Youth Club Naduvoorkarai is a Non-Profit making, Non–Government, Voluntary organization established in the year 1973 by dynamic youths from the Village & working for the youth empowerment. " Naduvoorkarai Youth Club" is a platform that provided the young generation to put forth their views to bring Positive Change in the Society to make it a better place for the Living.

 The Youth Centre focuses in the active attendance of young people in the public matters by subscribing newspapers like Thinamani, Thinamalar, Thinakaran and weekly magazines like Thuglak, Junior Vikatan etc. and also in the occupation with issues that concern and interest them.

Anniversary of youth club has been conducted on January 14 every year (2 days during the Pongal festival); various Competitions (Elocution, cultural, spots) & programme were conducted during the Celebrations. Youth club has focused on promoting the youth taking responsibility in the cultural and social development and progress of the Community. 

Youth Club

RATION SHOP:

Naduvoorkarai Fair price shop CP 102 (Ration Shop) operates under Primary Co-operative Society, part of India's public distribution system established by Government of India, is located near SivaSakthi Amman temple. Totally there are 543 Ration cards (543 families from villages Naduvoorkarai, Karumankoodal, Kovilanvillai, Manalivillai) get benefited from Naduvoorkarai Fair price shop CP 102 (Ration Shop). Major commodities distributed include staple food grains, such as wheat, rice, sugar, and kerosene, Iodized Salt, Maida, Atta etc.

Naduvoorkarai Fair price shop CP 102 

Naduvoorkarai Fair price shop CP 102 (New Building)

NADUVOORKARAI PADRAKALI AMMAN MANAMAKIL MANTRAM:

             The Manamakil Mantram (Happiness Club) was established in Naduvoorkarai in the year 1961.It was inaugurated by EX-TamilNadu Chief minister K.Kamaraj on 24/04/1961. It was rebuilt in year 2007.The Happiness Club's mission is to inspire and enable young people to embrace positive values, to openly express themselves with conviction and courage, to actively participate in developing individual skills and talents, and to confidently pursue productive futures as responsible, contributing members of society. It has a mini library which consists of more than 200 story books. There is also Television which was the device which connected the people with the outside world, people used to watch news and sports (especially Cricket) as a group in the early days when televisions are not available in houses.

Naduvoorkarai Padrakali Amman Manamakil Mantram

EDUCATION:

Elementary School (Arai Class)

        The Primary Education Center (Anganwadi Centre AWC) is organized into Kindergarten to create a neighborhood atmosphere.This center starts its operation from the year 1982. This AWC covers a population of 1000. It nurtures young children as they use their curiosity to explore the world around them. Free Midday Meal was provided there. The Mid-day Meal Scheme involves provision of lunch free of cost to school-children on all working days.The Anganwadi Code of this Kendra is 050. It also act as a child day care centre. Anganwadi is a government sponsored program for Naduvoorkarai Child-Care and Mother-Care development under Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) in Mondaikadu Town Panchayat, Kurundancode block of Kanyakumari District. ICDS is a program that primarily deals with eradicating malnutrition among children, providing pre-school education, primary health care etc. in Tamil Nadu, India. ICDS team comprises of Naduvoorkarai AWC Workers, Helpers, Supervisors, Child Development Project Officers and Kanyakumari District Programme Officers. The Anganwadi worker and helper are the primary elements of ICDS who run this Tamil Nadu Anganwadi Centre at Naduvoorkarai Mondaicadu Post and implement the ICDS schemes.

Anganwadi School (Arai Class Naduvoorkarai)

Anganwadi New Building (Arai Class Naduvoorkarai)

Children Park at the back of Arai Class

VILLAGE LIBRARY
     This ‘Village Library’ was started with only a few books and members. The members number increased year by year, at the same time the need of the members have been fulfilled. The library was started without any facilities, and started with a small building in kovilanvillai. The lands required for the building was donated by people from Kootumangalam and the present library building was constructed in Kootumangalam in the year 2002. 
     The books are arranged subject wise and being maintained serially in a big hall. To speed up the process of issue and return of books a librarian was available throughout the working hours A Librarian who is responsible for the whole library operation is available in the same hall to assist the users needs and administering the library function effectively. 
    The reference section is functioning at the first room of the library. This section has been well utilized by the members who are preparing for the competition examination, and higher studies. By using this many members succeeded in getting good job and passing competitive examinations. 

     Tamil and English daily papers and Tamil and English magazines are available in this section. This section is working for six and half hours a day between 9.00 a.m.to 12:30 Pm  and 4.00Pm to 7.00 p.m. Students from nearby schools and colleges are also making use of this section. 

Village Library located at Kootumangalam

Siva Sakthi Library :

Naduvoorkarai Sivasakthi villlage library was opened inside Manamagil Mantram building by Ex. Chief Minister Mr. K.Kamaraj on 24-04-1961. This Library was shifted  to new building on 13-10-2019. New books were added to this library on the occasion of 60th year completion on 23-04-2021.

Library Open Hours : Monday to Saturday Afternoon 1 PM to Evening 5PM.

Naduvoorkarai Sivasakthi Library

Government Middle School, Mondaikad.
Lakshmipuram College of Arts and Science, Lakshmipuram.

Devasom board higher secondary school, Mondaikad.

Sree Vivekananda Matric Higher secondary school, Kootumangalam.

Navajothi matriculation school, Karumankoodal.

Government Middle School, Kootumanagalam.

HOSPITALS:

Public health Centre, Naduvoorkarai.

SP Hospital, Manavalakurichy.

Sri Ram Hospital, Mondaikad.

Athencottasan Muthamizh Kazhagam rehabilitation Centre.

PLAYGROUND:

ARK Indoor Badminton stadium.

Naduvoorkarai play Ground.

Naduvoorkarai play Ground

 

ARK Indoor Badminton stadium

BUSES:

12C, 5H, 12LV, 47A, Easwar Mini Bus.

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