History

According to legend, two demons, 'Ilvalan' and 'Vatapi', who were born to Sage Dhurva and Aswamukhi, tortured the entire world and killed many innocent people. One of the demons used to take the shape of a fruit and the other used to offer it to some innocent passer-by and after he consumed it, the demon would come out by tearing his stomach. It was left to Sage Agasthya to kill these demons with his mystic powers. It was here that the slaying of the demons took place and as a result the place came to be known as Konnur in times of yore.

It got the name of Villivakkam much later which has its own bearing - that Sage Agasthya planted a "Vilvam" plant (which has got medicinal and spiritual healing power) and hence the name. If one visits the Shiva temple in Villivakkam, one could still see a very old Vilvam tree which the priests consider sacred and use its leaves for the daily puja.

Culture

There are many ancient places of worship in Villivakkam. Some of the popular ones are:

• Agatheeswerar Temple
  

• Baaliamman Temple
  

• Soumiya Damodara Perumal Temple http://www.sowmyadamodara.org/
  

• Murgan temple.
  

• The Masjid-eh-Rahmaniya Mosque,

• The Philadelphia church near ICF,

• The Sacred Heart Church in Srinivasa Nagar

Road

We have bus stand here, were we have many routes to most of the places in chennai.JN Road (100 feet Road) and MTH Road (NH 205) junction, connects Chennai and other town through one side and KHR and New Avadi Road to the other side, reaching Villivakkam by road is very easy form any part of Chennai. And at present subway work is under construction, which was started at Dec 4 2007.

Subway work

After the new AIADMK Govt has taken over, the subway construction work has been put on the cold storage. The Villivakkam vehicular subway, a much-awaited project in north Chennai after the Perambur flyover, will be commissioned in September, Union Minister of Textiles and Central Chennai Member of Parliament Dayanidhi Maran said here on Monday.

The project is being developed by the Southern Railway and the Chennai Corporation, at a cost of Rs.34.16 crore While the Southern Railway would complete its portion in September, the civic body would finish its work, including laying of the approach road on the southern side, by August, said Mr. Maran after reviewing the work. The hard rock soil condition and frequent caving in of earth in the area delayed the project. The conventional method of using iron girders to facilitate the construction of the subway, beneath the level-crossing and railway tracks, would be followed.

The vehicular subway would provide respite to residents of many neighbouring areas, including Kolathur and Villivakkam, from waiting for long hours at the level crossing, Mr.Maran added. The 447.50-metre-long subway would also have a bicycle lane 2.50 metre wide.

The soft soil condition proved to be a hurdle for executing projects of road overbridge at Perambur Locoworks and vehicular subway at MC Road. However, the ROB would be completed in September, he said.

Southern Railway officials, who accompanied the Union Minister, said that the Villivakkam subway project was started in June 2009 after the widening work of level-crossing 1 and shifting of drinking water pipeline and electricity cables.

Southern Railway Chief Administrative Officer R. Ramanathan said “We completed work underneath two railway tracks. The soil condition became harder when work was started under the third track. We did not want to take risk as the remaining four were important railway lines.” Five concrete boxes that are of 10.6 m length each would be installed. Iron girders of 1 m thickness would be used to support the construction, he said. Mayor M. Subramanian, Southern Railway General Manager Deepak Krishan and Corporation Commissioner Rajesh Lakhoni were also present3333.

Railways

Chennai suburban railway

Chennai suburban railway

Chennai suburban railway is a commuter rail system in the Indian city of Chennai operated by the Southern Railway. Chennai has a complex railway network. The system uses electrical multiple units operating on alternating current drawn from over-head cables through the catenary system...

 station at Villivakkam is between the segment of Chennai Central

Chennai Central

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 and Arakkonam

Arakkonam

Arakkonam is a mid-sized City in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, with a population of about 101,626 as per the census 2011...

 Junction, and just 10 km from Central, there are suburban services to Central, Beach

Beach

A beach is a geological landform along the shoreline of an ocean, sea, lake or river. It usually consists of loose particles which are often composed of rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles or cobblestones...

, Mylapore

Mylapore

Mylapore is a cultural hub and neighborhood in the southern part of the city of Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, India. Earlier, Mylapore used to be called Vedapuri....

 and Annanagar, Avadi

Avadi

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 , Tiruvallur

Tiruvallur

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, Arakkonam

Arakkonam

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.
The link from Chennai to Arakkonam

Arakkonam

Arakkonam is a mid-sized City in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, with a population of about 101,626 as per the census 2011...

 junction is the oldest railway line in South India.
Villivakkam railway station is the cleanest railway station in Chennai.

Schools

Children at Villivakkam have a plenty of well established Schools including Pre-primary school.
The schools are as follows:

• St.Johns Matriculation Higher Secondary School,
• The Singaram Pillai Boys Hr. Sec. School
• I.C.F. silver jubilee Mat. High. Sec. school,
• Sri Kanaka Durga Telugu Higher Secondary School
• AppleTree Play School
• Don Bosco Matriculation Higher Secondary (Srinivasa Nagar),
• Sri.V.Batcha Reddy High School,
• Nagalakshmi nursery & Primary School,
• ICF H.S.SCHOOL,
• Sri Ramakrishna nursery and primary school,
• M A Krishnaswamy Matric Hr. Sec school,
• dhanish matric hr.sec.school,
• John Williams Matriculation School,
• Our Lady of velanganni Mat Hr Sec School,
• St.Thomas Primary School,
• Good will High School,
• Good will Mat.Hr.Sec.School,
• Padma Sarangapani Matriculation Higher Secondary School and
• Velanganni Matric.Hr.Sec School.
• Kulapathi Dr. S Balakrishna Joshi Gurukulam, Mat. Hr. Sec. School

Don Bosco and St. John's are the famous schools at this area producing good academic results in in public examinations.

The ground in Singaram pillai School, and V-Ground between the rail tracks and grounds in ICF very famous for boys and girls play football, cricket and other sports.
The Tennis court and cricket pitch at I.C.F offers high quality coaching to the boys and girls.

Entertainment

There are few entertainment cine halls present, like Nathamuni, Ganga (near to villivakkam) and few others.

Also the erstwhile Royal Theatre, near the Villivakkam bus terminus is now renovated and is renamed as AGS Cinemas with 5 Screens.

Hospitals

Health care needs are catered to by hospitals like

• Niranjana Hospital and Well Women Centre, situated at No.2, Nethaji Nagar, Ist Street , Villivakkam, Chennai-49. Earlier this hospital was run under the name of Nirmal Polyclinic and Nursing Home situated and has been operational since 1988. This is recognized as one of the best hospitals for Women and child care in Villivakkam. Dr. Mrs.Anitha Karthikeyan M.B.B.S, DGO is the chief Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at the hospital , specialising in Pregnancy, Infertility and other Women health disorders. The hospital also has visiting consultants to attend various faculties like General Surgery, Paediatric surgery, Ophthalmic Surgery, Obstetric and Gynaec surgery and Laproscopic surgeries
• Mohan Reddy Nursing Home
• cauvery Trust Hospitals a growing multi speciality hospital
• Nirmal Poly Clinic
• Leela raj Maternity Clinic
• DRJ hospitals.

• On a special note the famous Pediatrician Dr.B.Anandarajan resides in villivakkam offering the people in and around the best health care service in pediatrics.

• I.C.F Hospital located near the ICF terminus offers health services to the family members of I.C.F employees.

Other Areas

Rajamanglam, Sidco nagar, South Jagannatha Nagar, Baba nagar, Valluvar Nagar, North Jagannathan Nagar,Rajaji Nagar. Welcome Colony and Thirunagar are the two most giant developed areas in the area. The tallest internet communication tower (TATA INDICOM) in South India is located in Welcome colony, it is also the tallest non linear frequency developing tower in South India. It is near welcome colony and whole of Chennai can be seen from it. Recently the 2009 solar eclipse filter camera as fixed at the top of the tower by a space team from Villivakkam Science Society near spencers. Agathiyar nagar, and Thirunagar are some of the largest residential areas in this zone.

Bus Routes

Bus Route No.	Starting Point	Passes By	Stop Point
7B	Broadway	Villivakkam	Korattur
M20	Broadway	Puraslwakkam	Villivakkam
M127	Anna Square	LIC	Villivakkam
22	Anna Square	Egmore	Villivakkam
27D 27K	Foreshore Estate	LIC	Villivakkam
47	Adyar	Saidapet	Villivakkam
47B	Besant Nagar	Saidapet	Villivakkam
M48C	Vallalar Nagar	Villivakkam	C.M.B.T
120	Broadway	Villivakkam	Avadi
248	Vallalar Nagar	Villivakkam	Pudur

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Ayanavaram
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External links

• Lions club of Villivakkam
• ICF
• Find Villivakkam Road Maps
• AGS Royal Cinemas
• Web Designing, SEO & Web Hosting in Villivakkam
• Sowmya Damodara Perumal Kovil