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Kaviyarasu Kannadhasan Nagar

Village in Chennai District, Tamil Nadu, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ16893500
Source-derived summary

KKD Nagar, also known as Kaviyarasu Kannadasan Nagar, named after the Tamil poet Kannadasan, is mainly a sub-residential locality of Kodungaiyur in the northern part of the metropolitan city of Chennai, Tamil Nadu state, India.

Location

KKD Nagar is located in North Chennai. National Highway 5 (NH 5) borders this area in south. It is 8 km from Chennai Central Railway Station. This place is near to the Grand Northern Trunk [GNT] road

Transport services

The bus services from/via Kaviarasu Kannadasan Nagar (KKD Nagar) bus terminal are:

Kodungaiyur P6 Police Station and Electricity board office is situated on Sidco Main Road.

Schools and colleges

KKD Nagar and its surrounding has a number of educational institutions catering to the residents of the area. Most notable ones are

Sree Muthukumaraswamy College, Muthamizh Nagar Church

Thiruthangal Nadar College, Selavayal

Dr. Ambedkar Government Arts and Science College, Vyasarpadi

Sacred Heart Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Muthamizh Nagar

St.Joseph's Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Seetharam Nagar

Government High school, in K.K.D Nagar

Don Bosco Matriculation Higher secondary school, KKD Nagar, Erukkancherry, MKB Nagar

Sri Sayee Vivekananda Higher Secondary School, Muthamil Nagar

Gurumoorthy High school

FES Matriculation Higher secondary school, Muthamil Nagar

Our Lady's Matriculation Higher Secondary School, M.R Nagar

Velankani Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Muthamil Nagar

Smt. N.D.J.A Vivekananda vidyalaya junior college (CBSC)

Lakshmi Narayana Matriculation school, Selavayal

Bharathi Nursery & Primary School, Block V, KKD Nagar

Mother Therasa Matriculation Higher Secondary School, KKD Nagar

Bharathi Nursery & Primary School, Block I, Muthamil Nagar

CSI Bain Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Muthamil Nagar

Radha Krishnan Matriculation Higher secondary school, Krishnamoorthy Nagar

Community halls

Community halls located in KKD Nagar include:

Seetha Ram Nagar Telugu People Welfare Association, Seetha Ram Nagar

Malaysia Mahal, Ethirajsamy salai, M.R. Nagar

A.B.Maaligai, Chinna kodungaiyur

Malathy Mahal, Muthamil Nagar

Eswari Mahal, Erukkancherry

Raj Hall, Sidco Main Road.

Editorial summary

“Kaviyarasu Kannadhasan Nagar” enters the record as village in Chennai District, Tamil Nadu, India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kaviyarasu, Kannadhasan and Nagar can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 303-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kaviyarasu, Kannadhasan and Nagar.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Kaviyarasu Kannadhasan Nagar” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kaviyarasu, Kannadhasan and Nagar provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16893500. Authority coordinates are 13.136, 80.256. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Three-step research path

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Questions for further research

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Kaviyarasu Kannadhasan Nagar” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.