Rijil Chandran Makkutty Standing Committee Chairman, PWD · KPCC Member
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Rijil Chandran Makkutty
Standing Committee Chairman, PWD · KPCC Member

Rijil
Chandran
Makkutty

Chairman of the Public Works standing committee, Kannur Municipal Corporation, and a member of the KPCC — formerly District President of the Indian Youth Congress in Kannur and State Vice President of its Kerala unit. Two decades of organisation behind a single argument: plan Kerala for the next twenty years, not the next twenty months.

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The premise

Kannur has never lacked ambition. It has lacked continuity — the willingness to hold a plan steady across terms, budgets and moods. The coast erodes on one timetable, a fibre network pays back on another, a child's schooling on a third. Governance that thinks in five-year bursts cannot meet any of them.

The work in Ward 38 starts from the opposite end: decide what the division should look like in 2035, then ask what must be true this year for that to remain possible. Some of it is unglamorous — drainage, land records, a functioning waste chain. Some of it is genuinely new: a small IT campus, a coastline managed as infrastructure, classrooms that teach with machines rather than around them.

None of it belongs to one office or one party. It belongs to a town that has already sent its brightest people to every other city on earth, and would rather keep the next generation at home.

“A ward is small enough to fix and large enough to prove something.”

Three commitments

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In the national frame

Two decades of youth-organisation work put him repeatedly in the room — and on the road — with the party's national leadership, from early district programmes to the Bharat Jodo Yatra's passage through Kerala.

Walking with Rahul Gandhi during the Bharat Jodo Yatra at Pattambi
On the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Pattambi
With Rahul Gandhi and state leaders
With the national and state leadership
Introducing a youth programme alongside Rahul Gandhi
Early youth-organisation years, on the microphone
Handing over division proposals at the Corporation
Division proposals, Kannur Municipal Corporation
With senior party leadership
With senior state leadership
In conversation on regional development
On regional development, across state lines
The platform

Kannur 2035

Three commitments, written so they can be checked. Each begins in one division of Kannur and is designed to scale to the corporation, the district and — where the argument holds — the state.

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“Publish the plan, publish the dates, and let people hold you to both. Continuity is the only real infrastructure.”

Future of Adi Kadalayi — public table talk on the division's development
“Future of Adi Kadalayi” — the division's development put to a public table talk
Biography

Twenty years on the street, before the chamber.

Rijil Chandran Makkutty came up through campus and youth politics in Kannur — the unforgiving kind, learned in agitations, lock-ups and door-to-door lists rather than in seminar rooms. He led the Indian Youth Congress in Kannur as District President, then served the Kerala unit as State Vice President.

Today he is a member of the KPCC and, in the Kannur Municipal Corporation, chairs the Public Works standing committee — the seat that decides what actually gets built. The instinct is the same one that took him through the earlier years: show up, take the notes, and stay long enough for the work to finish.

Two decades of agitations, campaigns and public work
Two decades of agitations, campaigns and public work
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