Some of the important business centres, shopping complexes and Government offices are located here.

[1] Kollam Junction railway station is also located in the cantonment ward of corporation.

[2][3][4][5][6] Considering the importance, a British garrison was stationed in Kollam which was subsequently reduced to a native regiment, as a protective force for the then Maharaja of the erstwhile state of Travancore.

[7] The Kollam Corporation Town Hall, named the C. Kesavan Memorial Municipal Town Hall in the memory of C. Kesavan – a freedom fighter and former Chief Minister of erstwhile Travancore-Cochin state – is a decades-old building situated on the National Highway passing through the Cantonment.

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