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Country
  
India

Time zone
  
IST (UTC+5:30)

Vehicle registration
  
KL 14

State
  
Kerala

PIN
  
671551

Nearest city
  
Kasaragod district

Pallathadka

Telephone code
  
+91-4998 (Peradala exchange, Uppala SDE)

Pallathadka is a hamlet in the Badiyadka village of Kasaragod district, Kerala State of India.

Contents

Map of Pallathadka, Kerala

Education

School: AUP School Pallathadka (Aided Upper Primary School, Pallathadka): This Upper Primary School is aided and recognized by Government of Kerala. It is bilingual offering both Kannada and Malayalam as mediums of instruction. This school was established in 1927 and it is one of the oldest schools in the district.

Community Organizations

Post Office: Pallathadka has a branch post office and pin code is 671551.

Community Center: Muddu Mandira: A free Community Center built in memory of Late Shri Subraya Bhat, Founder & Headmaster, A U P School Pallathadka.

Anganwadi and family health care center, Pallathadka.

Temples and places of worship

The village has three small temples and two mosques.

Sri Ayyapa Bhajana Mandira, Pallathadka.

Sri Shashtara Temple, Ballambettu (Just One mile from Pallathadka).

Sri Laxmi Narayana Mandira, Pallathadka.

Pallathadka Mosque and Pallathadka Madrasa.

Korikkar Mosque.

Cubs

Youth Clubs: Green Star ASC, Pallathadka.

Pallathadka has always been an example for religious harmony and brotherhood. Another feature of this hamlet is that each and everybody either belonging or hailing from this hamlet uses the name of the village Pallathadka as their surname.

Geography

A small river passes by Pallathadka which starts at Yethadka, forms the Shiriya River in the middle and merges with the Arabian Sea at Kumbla.

Notable people

(who are featured on Wikipedia)

Late Pallathadka Keshava Bhat:(3 January 1940 - 25 July 2010) was a retired professor in Botany at Universidad Oriente in Venezuella and a prominent ethnobotanist, proponent of herbalism and a well known personality in Venezuela.

Harikumar Pallathadka, (Harikumar P in short) is a prominent Indian RTI (Known as FOI in the west) and Social Activist and also the Manager of AUP School Pallathadka.

Prakash Kumar Pallathadka, is a Professor of Biological Sciences specializing in Plant Development, Tissue Culture, Plant Psychology and Molecular Biology at the Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS).

Pallathadka Pramoda Kumari is a Senior Scientist at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore.

References

Pallathadka Wikipedia