Administration of kozhikode

The history of Kozhikode district as an administrative unit begins from January 1957. When the States of the Indian Union were re-organized on linguistic basis on 1st November, 1956, the erstwhile Malabar district was separated from Madras State (Tamil Nadu) and added to the new unilingual State of Kerala. But Malabar district was found to be too unwieldy for administrative purposes. Consequently, the State government ordered the formation of three districts with certain changes in the boundaries of some of the taluks. The kozhikode district thus came into existence on 1st January 1957, originally consisting of five taluks, viz; Vadakara, Koyilandy, Kozhikode, Ernad and Tirur. With the formation of Malappuram district on 1st June 1969 and Wayanad district on 1st November 1980, Kozhikode district now consists of one revenue division, three taluks, twelve blocks, 77 Panchayats and 117 villages.
The revenue division is Kozhikode and the three taluks are Vadakara, Koyilandy and Kozhikode. The largest taluk is Kozhikode and the smallest Vadakara. Kozhikode is one among the twelve taluks in the State having an area of more than 1000 sq.kms; it has an area of 1026.6 sq.kms. The areas of Koyilandy and Vadakara taluks are 756.90 sq.kms. and 549.80 sq.kms. respectively.
Kunnummal, balussery, Tuneri, Perambra, Kunnamangalam, Thodannur, Koduvally, Meladi, Vadakara, Panthalayani, Chelannur and Kozhikode are the twelve blocks.
Of the 77 panchayats in the district, 22 panchayats are grouped in the special grade. There are 32 first grade Panchayats and the remaining 23 are second grade ones.
The total area of the district comes to 2344 sq.km; which accounts for six per cent of the total area of the state. Of the total area of the district, 2004 sq.km. are rural and 340 sq.km. urban.