About Village
Pangode village is bifurcated from the old Kallara village.The village is known for its participation in the Indian Independence Movement, through the Kallara-Pangode Struggle. It is situated on the foothills of Western Ghats.This Pangode is a village on the north east of Trivandrum district, located 45 km north-east of Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram) city, the capital of Southern Indian state of Kerala.Pangode has a history of participation in Indian Independence Movement. The Civil Disobedience Movement led by Mahatma Gandhi found its ripples in the village and a section of village farmers resorted to tax resistance. They refused to pay taxes for selling commodities at the Pangode and nearby Kallara markets in September 1939. A few local progressive thinkers and leaders led this mass movement against the British Raj and its representative who was ruling the Travancore province at the time, C. P. Ramaswami Iyer. A series of events led to a bloody incident in which a charged mob of agitated farmers attacking the Pangode police outpost and killing a policeman
Demography
The Pangode village has population of 29039 of which 13511 are males while 15528 are females as per Population Census 2011.
Geography
It is situated on the foothills of Western Ghats.This Pangode is a village on the north east of Trivandrum district, located 45 km north-east of Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram) city, the capital of Southern Indian state of Kerala
Socio-Economic
Pangode is predominantly an agriculture-dependent village and most of the people have directly or indirectly been involved in agriculture for their livelihood. With the spread of rubber cultivations in the 1970s and 1980s in the eastern regions of Kerala, farmers of Pangode quickly moved over from Coconut and Paddy cultivations to Rubber, attracted by its high Return on Investment. In the 1990s, a lot of village youth traveled to the Middle East countries in search of jobs and, by now, a good number of adults from the village is working abroad and, therefore, remittance is also a good source of income. Flow of remittance has resulted in increase in the number of concrete buildings, replacing the old thatched and tiled houses.
Ecology
The Pangode village is located on the foothills of the Agasthaya biosphere in Thiruvananthapuram, designated one of 123 ecologically sensitive areas in the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel ,WGEEP, headed by Madhav Gadgil.