Asramam Maidan

The Asramam Maidanam is a urban park, or maidhanam, in the city of Kollam, in Kerala, India. At 72 sections of land 29 ha, it is the biggest open space inside Kerala Municipal Corporation limits. The maidan is considered as one of the green lungs of the city and routinely has the city's principle of social and games events. It holds an enterprise park youngsters' park, outing village, British Residency and mangrove forests making it an essential tourism spot in the city. The Asramam maidan is the real preparing center of all the driving school administrators in Kollam city.

Asramam Maidan was utilized as an aerodrome amid the British Raj. Around then there were no polite aerodromes either in Thiruvananthapuram or anyplace else in the recent kingdoms of Travancore and Kochi nor in the British-ruled Malabar region of the Madras Presidency. Chartered flights, for the most part utilizing Avro air ship, would land and take off from Quilon Aerodrome.

The aerodrome was fundamentally utilized by VIPs from Madras on the way to Thiruvananthapuram, who in the wake of arriving at Quilon, would continue to Thiruvananthapuram via car. Quilon Aerodrome was additionally utilized for flying preparing. Amid one such preparing exercise, an airplane hit a tree on the limit of the aerodrome, murdering the pilot and the student. Preparing activities were ceased after the mischance, yet regular citizen air ship kept on utilizing the aerodrome.