Palakkad (Kerala), Jun 20 (PTI) The Passenger Amenities Committee (PAC) has decided to place before the Railway Board a proposal to name Tirur railway station in Malappuram district of Kerala after Thunchath Ramanujan Ezhuthachan -- the father of Malayalam language -- the statutory body's chairman said on Tuesday.

Speaking to reporters after inspecting Palakkad railway station, PAC chairperson P K Krishnadas said the committee and he himself had received several requests from passengers, natives of Tirur and prominent persons in Kerala's cultural scene for naming the Tirur station after Ezhuthachan.

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"We have decided to place the proposal for the same before the Railway Board. I expect and hope that it will be approved," he said.

Tirur is the birthplace of Ezhuthachan who was a 16th century Malayalam devotional poet, translator and linguist.

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