Idukki district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Kerala
- Headquarters
- Painavu
- Subdivisions
- Revenue divisions (2) Idukki Devikulam : Taluks (5) Devikulam Thodupuzha Udumbanchola Peermade Idukki
- Additional district magistrate
- Shri Sreejith S IAS
- Collector
- Shri Dineshan Cheruvatt IAS
- District police chief
- Vishnu Pratheep T.K IPS
- Total
- 4,612 km (1,781 sq mi)
- Rank
- 1st
- Elevation
- 1,200 m (3,900 ft)
- Density
- 251/km (650/sq mi)
- Official
- Malayalam , English
- Minority
- Tamil
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Iso 3166 code
- IN-KL
- Vehicle registration
- KL-06 Idukki KL-37 Vandiperiyar KL-38 Thodupuzha KL-68 Devikulam KL-69 Udumbanchola KLI Old Registration
- Hdi 2005
- 0.754 ( High )
- Website
- www .idukki .nic .in
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Encyclopedic overview
Idukki district (ഇടുക്കി; IPA: [iɖukːi] ) is one of the 14 districts in the Indian state of Kerala in the southwest of the country. It is the largest district in Kerala and lies amid the Cardamom Hills of Western Ghats in Kerala. Idukki district contains two municipal towns – Kattappana and Thodupuzha, and five taluks.
The district was constituted on 26 January 1972, by taking Peerumade, Udumbanchola, Devikulam taluks of the former High Range division from Kottayam district and the Thodupuzha taluk from Ernakulam district. Its division was previously headquartered at Kottayam city but moved to Kuyilimala near Painavu and Cheruthoni in June 1976. Malayalam and English are the two official administrative languages in the district. Tamil is the second most spoken language in Idukki district after Malayalam.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Idukki district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.