Thevakkal
| Thevakkal Vadacode | |
|---|---|
| village | |
  Thevakkal Location in Kerala, India  Thevakkal Thevakkal (India) | |
| Coordinates: 10°2′0″N 76°21′0″E / 10.03333°N 76.35000°ECoordinates: 10°2′0″N 76°21′0″E / 10.03333°N 76.35000°E | |
| Country |
 |
| State | Kerala |
| District | Ernakulam |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Malayalam, English |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| Vehicle registration | KL- |
| Nearest city | Ernakulam |
Thevakkal is a village located in Ernakulam district, Kerala, India.[1] InfoPark, Kochi is located from one and a half kilometer from Thevakkal.Vidhyodaya School at Thevakkal imparts quality education to children hailing from the locality and also to those coming from far and wide places.
Educational Institutes
Vidyodaya School is a private college-preparatory combined-grades school located in Thevakkal, Kochi, India. It provides comprehensive school education from lower primary to grade 12. A co-educational school, with an English-language medium of instruction, Vidyodaya follows the Central Board of Secondary Education prescribed syllabus. It started functioning in 1990, under the management of Vidyodaya Educational and Charitable Trust. The first batch of students from Vidyodaya graduated in 1997.
Students from the school are regularly ranked among the top few in all CBSE examinations, even achieving the second highest national aggregate in the CBSE AISSE 2006. It is regularly placed among the top schools in the nation according to CBSE examination rankings. It produces field hockey, judo, and wrestling teams which have won accolades at state and national-level tournaments.
The principal, M. Krishnakumari Nair has won the National Award for the Best Principal 2010-11 from the National Science Olympiad Foundation.
Government LP School
Edappally - Pukkattupady Road, Thevakkal, Kochi
Government Vocational Higher Secondary School
Thevakkal - NAD Road, Thevakkal, Kochi
Geography
Vikasvani Jn. 2.0 km.
Thrukkakkara Panchayat
Ernakulam District
City sacred grove
Ponnakkudam Kavu, a sacred grove, at Thevakkal near Kochi.
Right in the suburbs of Kochi, in Thrikkakara, is a sacred grove that is two and a half acres in area, owned by the Ponnakkudam family. There is a family temple inside the grove, and an old aristocratic ‘ettukettu' (there are two inner spaces in an ettukettu, while there is one inner space, called a nadumuttam' in a naalukettu) close by, the tharavad of the Ponnakkudam family.
Ramachandran P.K, president of the family trust formed to look after the grove and temple.
References
- ↑ Local Self Government Department, Government of Kerala