Pangode is an Indian village and a Grama Panchayat (Indian village council) located in the Trivandrum district in the state of Kerala. The village is known for its participation in the Indian Independence Movement, through the Kallara-Pangode Struggle. It is situated in the foothills of Western Ghats. Location Pangode is a village on the north east of the Trivandrum district, located 45 km north-east of Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram) city, the capital of the Southern Indian state of Kerala. There are two other places with the name Pangode. One is located in Trivandrum city, where there is an Indian military establishment. The other is the location of an Ayurvedic medical college in the neighboring Kollam district. The Gram Panchayat of Pangode falls under the Vamanapuram block of the Trivandrum district and is on the Karette-Palode Road. It is a village on the border of the Kollam and Trivandrum districts. The village is where the office of the Gram Panchayat and other important government offices of the Panchayat are located. The Pangode Gram Panchayat was carved out of Grama Panchayats of Kallara and Vamanapuram by Government Order No: 883/77/LA on September 30, 1977. P A Rahim was its first President and Pattanikkada Shahul Hameed was its first Vice President. It is spread over an area of 23.31 km2, with a population of 29,039. There are 13,511 males and 15,528 females as of the 2011 census. In the 2001 census, there were 30,225 people, meaning that the population declined by 1,186 people. In the 2001 census, the female to male ratio was 1092:1000. At the time of the census, the village had a literacy rate of over 90 percent. Infrastructure There is a government-run lower primary school, and a governmentally-aided upper primary school. The upper primary school is called KVUPS, teaches in both Malayalam and English, and was established in 1964 A government high school is located 2 kilometres away in the nearby village of Bharathannoor, which is part of the Pangode Grama Panchayat. The governmentally-aided college in the village, the Mannaniya College of Arts & Science, is established in 1995 by the Jamiya Mannaniya Islamiya charitable society. It runs undergraduate courses under the University of Kerala. The village also has a police station, a post office with PIN: 695609, a revenue Village Office, a branch of the State Bank of Travancore (SBT) and a Cooperative Bank. Economy Pangode is predominantly an agriculture-dependent village