In acknowledgement of his efforts to promote a drug-free community, in particular among youth, he was awarded a fellowship in 2013 to attend the Global Tobacco Control Leadership Programme at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Washington DC, USA.[13][14] He also initiated an innovative "Punyam Poonkavanam" [15] project to promote waste cleanup at the Sabarimala pilgrimage site[16][17][18] and a Traffic Safety & Learning Centre at Thrissur,[19] and School Protection Groups.[22] In acknowledgement of his efforts to promote a drug-free community, Vijayan was awarded a fellowship in 2013 to attend the Global Tobacco Control Leadership Programme at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Institute for Public Health in Washington DC, USA.[28][29] As Kozhikode City Police Commissioner, Vijayan initiated the Our Responsibility to Children (ORC) project to address the increasing socially deviant behaviour among adolescents.[33][34] Vijayan is married to Dr M. Beena IAS, a medical doctor by training and a civil servant (Kerala cadre 1999)[35] by profession, and the couple have two school-going children.