Aruvikkara Assembly constituency

Vembannur is a village located in the Nedumangad taluk of the Thiruvananthapuram District in Kerala, India. Vembannur comes under the Aruvikkara panchayat of the Nedumangad Taluk. The main attraction of this small village is the Aruvikkara Dam. This dam was built by the rulers of the Travancore princely state to supply drinking water to the city of Thiruvananthapuram. As of 2012, the water from the dam's reservoir is still in use. The dam is small, with only 20 feet in height, but stores a good capacity of water. There is a bridge connecting Vembannur to the outside world in front of the Dam. A single-track bridge, which is the only road link to the outer world from this village.

Aruvikkara Dam (Malayalam : അരുവിക്കര അണക്കെട്ട്) is located in Aruvikkara in Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala. This Gravity and Masonry dam was built across the Karamana River and was completed in 1972 is used for irrigation and supplying drinking water to the city of Thiruvananthapuram. The Aruvikkara dam project came up in the 1930s and has been supported by the Peppara dam built in 1983. The height of the dam is 14.01 meters (45.96 ft) and the length is 83.21 meters (273 ft). The Aruvikkara Dam meets the irrigation needs of Thiruvananthapuram. The reservoir is also one of the water tourism sites in Kerala.

Aruvikkara is a panchayat in Thiruvananthapuram district in the state of Kerala, India. It is located on the banks of the Karamana River 15 km from Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of the state of Kerala in South India and one of the 12 panchayats that shares border with Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation. The reservoir and garden makes it a tourist spot. It is famous for the ancient Bhagavathi temple dedicated to Durga, the divine embodiment of female power, which is built on a rock. The stream in front of the temple contains large fishes, which are fed by the devotees visiting the shrine. The headquarters of the Wellington Water Distribution project is located here. The small Aruvikkara Dam (mini dam) which provides water to the state capital Thiruvananthapuram. G Steephen of CPI(M) is the sitting MLA of Aruvikkara constituency to the Kerala Legislative Assembly.

G. V. Raja Sports School is a State sports school in Aruvikkara, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, focused on developing young athletes in various sports. It is one of the three sports schools in Kerala under the Directorate of Sports & Youth Affairs, alongside the Sports Division in Thrissur and the Sports School in Kannur. Founded in 1974, it is named after Lt. Col. P. R. Godha Varma Raja, known as the "Father of Sports in Kerala," to honor his contributions to sports promotion in the state.

Vellanad is a village in the Nedumangad Taluk district of Thiruvananthapuram district in the state of Kerala, India.

G.Karthikeyan Smaraka Government Vocational and Higher Secondary School aka Government Model V HSS Vellanad is located amid of Vellanad, Thiruvananthapuram. The school started as a Lower Primary school in 1891, and from 1957 onwards, it became an Upper Primary school, and in 1962, it became the High School. In 1989, the VHSE Department started, and in 2000, the Higher Secondary Section was also launched. In 1998, the School won the PSSCIVE(Pandit Sunderlal Sharma Central Institute of Vocational Education) Award. The school also won the State Award 2002-03 for establishing the best IT lab for the IT@School project. It also received Central Government's 2nd Computer Literacy Excellence Award for School-2003. In 2004, Principal K. S Vimalakumari was rewarded for the National Teachers Award. The school won the title 'MODEL' in the academic year 2012–2013. The school divided into four wings, such as Upper primary, High school, Higher secondary and Vocational higher secondary. The higher secondary wing offers courses for biology, computer science, commerce, humanities and most exclusively for journalism (under the Humanities group). Medical laboratory technician (MLT) and Livestock management (LSM) are the two courses offered in the vocational higher secondary wing. Later, the school was renamed as G. Karthikeyan memorial. Aneesh VN is the current PTA president.

Karakulam is a panchayat in Nedumangad Taluk in Tiruvananthapuram District in the state of Kerala, India. It is the most populated panchayat in the district according to 2011 census.

The ISRO Inertial Systems Unit (IISU) is a research and development unit of the Indian Space Research Organisation located in Vattiyoorkavu, Thiruvananthapuram that specialises in inertial sensors and systems in satellite technology. IISU specialized fields include the fields of launch vehicle inertial systems, spacecraft inertial systems, inertial sensors evaluation and simulation, inertial system production, inertial systems electronic production, reliability and quality assurance and advanced inertial systems group.

P.A. Aziz College of Engineering & Technology (In Malayalam പി.എ. അസീസ് കോളേജ് ഓഫ് എഞ്ചിനീയറിങ്ങ് & ടെക്ക്‌നോളജി) or PAACET, was established in 2003 under the patronage of the P.A. Aziz Trust. The college is located at Karakulam, seven kilometers from Kowdiar Palace, Trivandrum city in southern Kerala, India. The college is affiliated with the University of Kerala. Admission to the college is based on entrance examinations conducted by the Commissioner of Entrance Examinations, Kerala.

Bhavan's Senior Secondary School is located in Kodunganoor, Trivandrum, Kerala, India. The school is affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education. It was established in 1986, under the guidance of the late Sri. Sooranad Kunjan Pillai and secretary Sri. M. Radhakrishnan Nair.