My Village..... "Kadakkal"

Kadakkal is a wonderful historic town located in the Eastern part of Kollam District, Kerala. It is five kilometres away from Nilamel, which is on Trivandrum - Angamaly State Highway (MC Road). The town is an important business centre and is known for its spice production. Main agricultural cultivation include rubber, coconut and pepper. State hiway 64 is throw away hear. Kadakkal is well known for the socio-revolutionary activities held in the Pre-independence period of India.The most important one of them is Kadakkal Revolution (Kadakkal Viplavam) led by Franco Ragavan Pillai.



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Kadakkal

Economy

Kadakkal city is an important business centre of the Eastern part of Kollam district.Kadakkal Chantha (Market) is very famous one in Kerala, especially for its agrarian commodity business like coconut, arecanut, copra, tapioca, rubber, etc . Kadakkal Panchayat is a Special Grade Panchayat, which is on the verge of becoming a Municipality very soon. It covers a vast geographical area with a huge population of Hindus and Muslims. Christians are very rare. Chithara, Nilamel, Ittiva, Kummil and Chadayamangalam are the neighboring Panchayats.

Education

Educational facilities available at Kadakkal

APRM Central School, Chithara
Govt. UP School, Kadakkal
Govt. VHSS, Kadakkal
CP HSS, Kuttikkadu
UPS, Kuttikkadu
National Open School, Kadakkal
Devasom Board School, Altharamoodu
Nehru Memorial School, Attupuram
Ex-Service Men's School, Attupuram
SN School Kottapuram
SHM Engineering College, Kadakkal
PMSA Arts and Science College, Kuttikkadu, Kadakkal
NSS College, Nilamel
Jamiu Swalihath Arabic College, Chithara
Jamia B.Ed College, Chithara
Jamiu Swalihathu Orphanage Chithara
NSS College Nilamel
Gurudev institute of management studies (MBA) kottappuram,kadakkal

This area is also famous for its parallel education systems, which include:

Campus College, Kadakkal
Chaithanya College, Kadakkal
Harisree College & Computers, Sankar Nagar
SN College & Computers, Sankar Nagar
MSM Arabic Academy, Kadakkal
Talent PSC Coaching Centre, Chingeli
Alpha College, Chingeli
VKM ITC, Kadakkal
Rashtramandiram College

Religion

The Famous Kadakkal Bhagavathy Temple is located here. It is exactly located at Altharamoodu just one kilometer away from Kadakkal town. Kadakkal Devi Temple comes alive during Thiruvathira festival held in March, and is one of the prime festivals of the region.

The temple festivities attract large crowds from various parts of the state, which are a ten day program including main festival at Thiruvathira with Eduppukuthira. Kadakkal amma or goddess is considered as a very powerful deity by Hindus. The ten day "Thiruvathira" festival ends with 'Guruzi'. Town Mosque is another important religious place located in the heart of the town. It shares its own boundary with a temple, Madan Nada. This itself proves the religious sovereignty of people from Kadakkal.

Kadakkal Thiruvathira - Kuthirayeduppu (Video)

Politics

Current MLA of Chadayamangalam Assembly Constituency is Kerala's former Agricultural Minister, Mullakkara Rathnakaran. Recent election to parliament select N. Peethampara Kuruppu of UDF. Even though all other part of the Kollam constituency move to UDF, Kadakkal and all other part of Chadayamngalam stay with LEFT.



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