Q: Hi all, I am from thrissur. I have heard a lot about the area of varappuzha. But, now i am planning to move to this area, so I need more information about this locality. Can you provide me with some detailed review of this place?
Hey, in this area, you can find many residential plots in this region. You can see that the price of a plot is minimum 400 rupees per square feet. But, you know, this region is very near to the city area. So, i think, for some plots, especially those near to the main roads, the price can go as high as 1012 rupees per square feet.
I am not so sure about the price of any apartment in Varappuzha. But...you see, the individual houses and villas are quite good here...The price of the houses are quite high here. The maximum price of the houses can be around 5200 rupees per square feet here. For the lowest price, I think, it is 1554 per square feet.
If you are a regular traveller by flights and all, then you might have to settle down in an area near to the airport. Localities in Kochi are good for this as the Cochin International Airport at Nedumbassery is near only. From the Varappuzha locality, you can see that the airport is at a distance of 24 km from here.
Hey, the connectivity of this region also has one more thing. The Railway connectivity. You can see that this region is near to the Edappally Railway station and it is the nearest railway station here. It is around 7.4 km from here. But, the major railway station, that is the Ernakulam Junction south railway station is at a distance of 16 km from here.
hey, for you information, this locality does not have that great a commercial area. Even though most of these small commercial development happens near to the highway, you can also find many small provision stores and small market places in the interior places also. KKG Building as well as the Aishwarya Textiles are two of the good shoping centres that you can see here.
The health infrastructure of Varappuzha is also quite good. infact, there are many good hospitals in here, especially by the side of the Edapally-Panvel Highway. Some of them which i like to mention it for you are Karingamthuruth Hospital, Little Flower Hospital, Carmel Medical Centre, UP Trust Hospital, Varappuzha medical centre, varappuzha health centre, Primary Health center, as well as the famous Aster Medcity.
I think that the social infrastructure of Varapuzha is quite good. You can find a lot of schools as well as colleges and other educational insitutions in this locality. Some of the popular one are Chavara Darshan CMI Public School, St. Philomena's Higher Secondary School, Olanad School, Vishwadeepti Vidyalaya Public School, St. George HS Puthenpally, Chirakkakom Government UP School, Infant Jesus LP School, Holy Infants Boys High School, AMMLP School, Government Vocational Higher Secondary School etc.
Yeah..moreover, you can see that the locality of Varappuzha is very near to the Periyar river and a tributary of the backwaters is passing right through the centre of the locality itself. The waterways is also very active here because of this reason. You can find some ferries here like the Thundathum Kadavu Ferry Terminal, Chennur North Ferry Terminal, Chariyathuruthu North Ferry Terminal, South Boat Jetty etc in this locality that provides connectivity to various parts of Kochi.
The popular localities of Kochi is just around 10 to 15 kilometres from the area of Verapoly, you see. So, if you stay here, you have quite an easy access to most of the entertainments and commercial aspects of Kochi city. You can easily travel to the city area through the NH47 as well as NH 17.
Hey, you know, if you are planning to settle down in this locality, then you also need to know something about the nearby localities also, no...Here, some of the nearby localities are Chennur, Kothad, Cheranalloor, Udyogamandal, Binanipuram, Panayikulam, Kottuvally, Ezhikkara, Paravur, Chittoor, Kalamassery etc.
Transportation is also very good in this area. There you can find buses between Ernakulam, Kadamakkudy islands as well as North Paravur very frequenty. The good connectivity is possible because of the Parur Vytilla National Highway, Varappuzha-Kadamakkudy road, as well as the Parur-Chennur-Chittur Ernakulam road.
One thing I would like to say is that the educational sector in this part of Cochin is quite good. many notable persons like MP Paul, Rosy Thomas, Pappan, VM Venkateshwara Pai, TM Chummar etc are from here. There are also some very good schools here like St. George HS, Govt. UP School, St. Joseph's, Holy Infant Boys School, Infant Jesus LP School, St. Mary's School etc.
Varappuzha is a large area that consists of many small localities. This is actually comes under the Paravoor thaluk. Some of the popular localities in the Varapuzha region are Edampadam, Thevarkad, Vattapotta, Chirakkakom, Puthenpally, Muttinakom, Mannamthuruth, Thundathunkadavu, Chettibhagam, Devaswompadam, etc.
Varappuzha is a quite popular locality in Kochi since the british period itself. Earlier it had an anglicized name Verapoly. It is located in the northern part of Cochin city. one of the peculiarities about this town is that you can find a considerably large paddy field called Devaswompadam which is specialized for Pokkali paddy cultivation as well as interim fish cultivation called Kettu.