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Medavakkam — panchayat — Coordinates Country India State TamilNadu District(s) Chennai Nearest city Chennai Parliamentary constituency South Chennai Assembly constituency Sholinganallur Population Approximately 22,000 Time zone IST (UTC+05:30) Medavakkam (Tamil: மேடவாக்கம்) is one among the southern suburbs of Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu. It is a residential municipality close to the Chennai Airport and is adjacent to the suburbs of Sholinganallur, Madipakkam, Selaiyur, Keelkattalai, Velachery and Tambaram and it is center place to the developing suburbs like Ponmar, Ottiyambakkam and Sithalapakkam. This location seems to be a quickly developing residential spot due to its close proximity to the IT corridor OMR (approx 4 km from Sholinganallur) and SEZ in Medavakkam Sholinganallur Road. This is a residentially preferred area due to its calm and airy locality, sweet ground water and access to good educational intitutions.
Some of the areas in Medavakkam are Munusamy Nagar, Vimala Nagar, VGP Pushpa Nagar, Aishwarya Gardens, Aishwarya Garden Extn, Soumya Nagar,Jayachandran nagar, BHEL Nagar, Sairam Nagar, Veerabadra Nagar, Senthamizh Nagar, Sivakami Nagar. Jayachandran nagar alone constitutes a large number of apartments mainly occupied by IT professionals. The major roads linking Medavakkam junction are Velachery Tambaram Road, Medavakkam Mambakkam Main Road and Medavakkam Sholinganallur Road.
Many prime areas on GST road - Chrompet, Pallavaram, St.Thomas Mount can be easily accessed from this junction.
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Schools
Medavakkam has a number of schools catering to students from Kindergarten to Higher Secondary.
Few of them are:
- SAHASRAS PRESCHOOL, Montessori School, Aishwarya Gardens
- Apple kids, Jayachandran Nagar
- Kinderstand Pre School,Jayachandran Nagsr
- Global Kids, Jayachandran Nagar
- ABC Montessori(American Pre-school),VGP Pushpanagar
- Christ the King School, VGP Pushpa Nagar,Zigma Matriculation School, Veerabadra Nagar
- BS Matriculation School.
- St. Joseph's Matriculation School, Medavakkam Junction
- BVM Global at Bollineni Hillside
- PSBB Millennium at DLF Garden City
- Headstart at Sholinganallur
- Bharathi Vidyalaya (Perumbakkam Road)
- Boaz Matriculation (Tambaram Velacheri Road)
- Zigma Matriculation School
- Kidzee (No 1/630 A, Sowmiya Nagar, Sastha Nagar Main Road)
- Eurokids
- Little Millenium (No.7 & 8,11th Cross Street,Radha Nagar,Perumbakkam)
- Nethaji Vidyalaya Mambakkam Road
Colleges
Medavakkam is surrounded by the following colleges:
- Prince Shri Venkateshwara Padmavathy Engg College
- Prince Dr. k Vasudevan college of engineering and technology
- Quaid E Milleth College For Men
- New Prince Sri Bhavani Arts & Science College
- Bharani Swathi College of Physiotherapy
- Bharani Swathi College of Arts and Science
Hospitals
- Recently inaugurated Global Health City, Perumbakkam is very close to Medavakkam Junction,
- Kamakshi Memorial Hospital, Pallikkaranai is a nearby 24x7 multi-speciality hospital,
- Annai Therasa Hospital - Medavakkam - Sholinganaullr Road Junction,
- Balachandar Hospital - Mambakkam Road just opposite to Post Office,
- Karunya Hospital - Near to Gupta Bhavan.
Shopping
More, Reliance fresh, Nilgiris, City Super Market, Green Basket, Dola Meat Shop
Bakery & Sweets
Hot Breads, Gupta Bhavan
Worship Places
Srinivasa Perumal Temple, Pillaiyar Koil Street, Medavakkam
Sahaya Madha Church, Medavakkam
Sai Baba Temple, Soumya Nagar
Arulmigu Sundara Vinayagar Temple,near medavakkam bus stand
Theater
Kumaran theater velachery main road.
Restaurants
- Sowmiya Bhavan,
- Gupta Bhavan,
- Chandra Bhavan,
- Juice shop close to Reliance Fresh,
- Thalappa Kattu Briyani
Banks
- Andhra Bank
- Indian Bank
- Indian Overseas Bank
- KVB Bank
Connectivity
The main mode of transport and conveyance are MTC bus, Share autos, vans. The nearest railway stations are Velachery MRTS station and Tambaram Railway station and St.Thomas Mount RS placed equidistant from Medavakkam 8 km.
Medavakkam is well connected by MTC bus service. Most of the buses to Tambaram Via Velachery will pass through Medavakkam Junction.
There are plans to connect Medavakkam with Velachery by CMRL
Few of the busses plying through Medavakkam are:
Route No From To Notes 5 A Tambaram T. Nagar Medavakkam Jn., Velachery 51 D Tambaram Broadway Medavakkam Jn., Velachery 51 L Tambaram CMBT Medavakkam Jn., Velachery, Guindy 559 Keelkattalai Thiruporur A 5 A T. Nagar Balaji Nagar A 51 Tambaram Broadway Medavakkam Jn., Velachery B 51 Tamabaram East T. Nagar Medavakkam Koot Road, Madipakkam, St. Thomas Mount C 51 Tambaram Adayar M 14 Medavakkam St. Thomas Mount Velachery M 15 Medavakkam Mylapore Velachery M 21 Velachery Tambaram East M 21 A Velachery Tambaram West M 21 B Velachery Chrompet M 51 B Saidapet Karanai M 51 V T. Nagar Kolathur PP 51 Tambaram High Court Medavakkam Jn., Velachery T 51 Tambaram Thiruvanmiyur Medavakkam Jn., Thoraipakkam V 51 Tamabaram East T. Nagar Medavakkam Koot Road, Madipakkam, Velachery See also
- Nangamangalam Reserve Forest
- Medavakkam Information: http://sites.google.com/site/infomedavakkam
References
- http://g.co/maps/jrse4
- http://www.mtcbus.org/
- http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=12.9169772&lon=80.1937205&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2
Medavakkam Information: http://sites.google.com/site/infomedavakkam
Categories:- Chennai suburbs
- Cities and towns in Kanchipuram district
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