{"id":20636,"date":"2014-09-24T12:01:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T06:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=20636"},"modified":"2014-09-24T12:16:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T06:46:45","slug":"jawahar-nagar-turns-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/jawahar-nagar-turns-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Jawahar Nagar turns 50| Things about Jawahar Nagar you likely didn&#8217;t know!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City&#8217;s oldest and Kerala&#8217;s first residential colony turns 50. Jawahar Nagar. In this golden jubilee year let\u2019s take a look at its past.<\/p>\n<p>The place used to be called <strong>Maracheenivila <\/strong>named after the tapioca cultivated on a large scale. There was a tapioca research centre functioning those days and its building is still standing which is now the Jawahar Nagar Lower Primary School. The transformation from an uninhabited landscape to the prestigious Jawahar Nagar as we know came about as a result of a plan to keep Trivandrum as capital city. When there were talks of shifting capital to Kochi, Pattom Thanu Pillai setup a city improvement trust with the objective of developing Trivandrum as the capital.<\/p>\n<p>The whole layout of the colony was modelled on the British Housing Scheme with 6 metre wide roads, open spaces and playgrounds. At first there were only T-junctions so as to avoid traffic congestion. The colony also boasted of underground drainage and pipe line connection which were rare in those days.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20647\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20647\" class=\" wp-image-20647\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2014\/09\/jawahar-nagar-fisrt-house.jpg\" alt=\"The first house in Jawahar Nagar, belonging to K P K Menon and Sethu Bayi, built in 1963\" width=\"515\" height=\"291\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first house in Jawahar Nagar, belonging to K P K Menon and Sethu Bayi, built in 1963<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>The first house in Jawahar Nagar belonging to K P K Menon and Sethu Bayi was built in 1963. Back then, the land was sold at cheap rates but even then there were not many takers. Now it costs Rs 30lakhs a cent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now Jawahar Nagar is no longer a pure residential area as many commercial institutions including IT firms have also setup offices here. Even though the colony exists right in the heart of the bustling city, it still retains a tranquil old world charm of the sixties.<\/p>\n<p>The residents are planning to celebrate the golden jubilee of the colony on January 24 and 25, 2015. They are also making every effort to contact the second generation residents spread all over the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City&#8217;s oldest and Kerala&#8217;s first residential colony turns 50. Jawahar Nagar. In this golden jubilee year let\u2019s take a look at its past. The place used to be called Maracheenivila named after the tapioca cultivated on a large scale. There was a tapioca research centre functioning those days and its building is still standing which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":20643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-20636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}