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Neroth Poyil — village — Coordinates 10°4′0″N 76°28′0″E / 10.066667°N 76.466667°ECoordinates: 10°4′0″N 76°28′0″E / 10.066667°N 76.466667°E Country India State Kerala District(s) Kozhikode Nearest city Kozhikode Member of Parliament M.K.Raghavan (UDF) Member of Assembly Adv.P.T.A Rahim (Ind) Parliamentary constituency Kozhikode Time zone IST (UTC+05:30) Neroth is a small village in Unnikulam Gram panchayat in Kozhikode district if southern state of Kerala in India. The name Neroth is given to so many other villages in Kerala and even there is a municipality called Neroth in German district of Rhineland-Palatinate. Neroth is very close to Kanthapuram village which is known with the famous Islamic (A. P. Sunni) leader A. P. Aboobacker Musliar, founder of Markazu Saqafathi Sunniya.
Neroth is about 3 KM away from Poonoor town and same distance away from Elettil Vattoli town. The village is known with the name of old Poonoor Govt. High school (Now named as GHSS Poonoor).
Years back there was a big coir factory in Neroth. Now it is not operational. The decomposed waste of the coir factory stand high like a brown hill on both the sided of Neroth - Mangad road. Mostly every year this coir hill catches fire and it is still a big threat to the villagers and nearby cocunut trees. Some of the innovative villagers had a try to convert this waste to fertilizers and the outcome was not so good.
There are few small scale industries like AM Bar Soap and Toyo Paints homed in this village. Neroth is the home for famous RP family of Kerala. There is a very old Mangad Juma Masjid and Neroth Salafi masjid in the village.
References
Aboobacker Ahmad
Categories:- Villages in Kozhikode district
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