Mangavilai

Mangavilai

Mangavilai
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Village
Population
• Total	850

Mangavilai "மங்காவிளை" is a village in the Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu, India. Mangavilai comes under the Dharmapuram Panchayat, and is 9 km from Nagercoil, the district head quarters of Kanyakumari. The name Mangavilai means undestroyable fame.^{[citation needed]}

History

Mangavilai is one of the small villages in the Kanyakumari district. Generally only one relationship in our village i.e. Brother and Sister's relationship. This is the main feature of our village.It has the population of around 850 peoples. Our village has a name board in the entrance having three languages (Hindi, Tamil and English). In Kanyakumari district few villages having name board with three or more languages and the same name board was established on 24.09.1985. It is a peculiar display

Basically our peoples are hard workers. They went upto Member of Parliament level. One of our village man contested in a Parliament election against the greatest leader Shri K. Kamaraj (Ex-Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu) in 1972, but he failed and became a Rajyasabha Member. His name is Shri M C Balan, Ex-MP.

Village and surroundings

COCONUT TREE, Mangavilai

Mangavilai is comes under Dharmapuram Panchayat. It is situated 1 km North of Arabian Sea and 9 km distance from Nagercoil, which is our district Head Quarters and 20 km distance from Kanyakumari, which is the southern most tip of our land. It is surrounded by some other small villages namely Pilavilai in the north, Neduvilai in the east, Kaliyayanvilai in the south and Puthoor and Panavilai in the west.

Temples History

The following temples are there:-

Siva Sudalai Maadan Temple
Arunachaleswar Temple
Isakki Amman Temple
Vinayagar Temple
Ayya Vaikundar Temple

Siva Sudalai Maadan Kovil

Sudalai Maadan Temple is belonging to the whole village. It is situated in the centre of our village.

Arunachaleswar Temple

Isakki Amman Temple

Vinayagar Temple

Ayya Vaikundar Temple

Culture and religion

All the residents of Mangavilai follow Hinduism and belong to the Nadar caste.

Education

In Mangavilai, People are mostly educated. Our literacy rate is 100%. Here the people are regularly reading News Papers. Our village has a big library with a reading room, where we are inviting more than 15 weekly and monthly magazines; along with it has a sports complex to develop the physical fitness of our youth. Our library provides Educational and Employment services through various consultants and documents. We are having annual meeting of employed people in every year for some interaction. This provides to our village heads to develop the education. This meeting advices our village people to attain development in various fields.

Our village produced so many numbers of Lawers, College Professors and Government Employees like Military and Para Military Services and in the State Administrative Services. At present our village has one Govt. Employee in each household. Our Graduates are multiplied every year. For example Doctorate (both Arts and Science) candidates are approximately 25 in our village.

Climate

The maximum temperature during summer hovers around 86°F or 30°C. Mangavilai receives both North-East monsoon and the South-West monsoon.