Vaduthala is a suburb

Suburb

The word suburb mostly refers to a residential area, either existing as part of a city or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city . Some suburbs have a degree of administrative autonomy, and most have lower population density than inner city neighborhoods...

 of the city of Kochi, India

India

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. Before merger with the corporation of Kochi, Vaduthala was a municipality under the Government of Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

. A zonal office of the Corporation of Cochin operates here. Several educational institutions like Chinmaya Vidyalaya

Chinmaya Vidyalaya

Chinmaya Vidyalaya are a group of schools operated by the Chinmaya Mission Trust, founded by a spiritual leader late His Holiness Swami Chinmayananda. There are more than 75 such schools in 12 states across India...

, Don Bosco School, Archbishop Attipety School operate here. Thhe nearest hospital is the Lourdes Hospital. Vaduthala is also considered to be the place of Vaduthala Nair

Vaduthala Nair

Vaduthala Nair, the Kshatriya/Warrior of Parayi petta panthirukulam belongs to the present Kundooly Nair family of Mezhathur, near Thrithala. It was this family who took and raised the infant left behind by the Vararuchi couple while on the pilgrimage along the Nila River banks.Vaduthala Nair was...

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Backwaters in Vaduthala

Vaduthala is blessed with a line of backwaters, kissing its side, all along its length. This beautiful stretch is one of the most peaceful places in Cochin city and also a source of livelihood for a number of fishermen living here. Sadly, there are plans to fill up a huge area of these backwaters for the construction of new roads and also for revenue generation for the Corporation of Cochin.

Kerala's oldest football tournament

Vaduthala is famous, for the Don Bosco FootBall Tournament, which has a history that reads the great fixtures between the local clubs.Tournament occurs once every year.

Roads in Vaduthala

The proposed Railway line connecting the International Shipping terminal to Airport will be passing through vaduthala.Many people staged protest against this as many peoples houses had to be removed to give way for the construction of the railine but their efforts were futile and the construction of this project has already begun.There is a single main road leading to vaduthala.