[2] Valayam village connects to other parts of India through Vatakara city on the west and Kuttiady town on the east.

National highway No.66 passes through Vatakara and the northern stretch connects to Mangalore, Goa and Mumbai.

[4] On 24 January 2015, one communist volunteer called P. Shibin was murdered by a Muslim league worker in a local dispute.

The police issued prohibitory orders in violent areas like Nadapuram, Valayam, Kuttiady and Edachery.

[5] The police are not effective in this area because the number of security personnel deployed is only ten percent of the perpetrators of the violence.