The Gram Panchayat of Pangode falls under the Vamanapuram block of the Trivandrum district and is on the Karette-Palode Road.

Due to this, a number of adults from the village work abroad leading to remittance being a good source of income.

[citation needed] The flow of remittance has resulted in increase in the number of concrete buildings, replacing the old thatched and tiled houses.

They refused to pay taxes for selling commodities at the village markets of Pangode and nearby Kallara in September 1939.

A few local progressive thinkers and leaders led this mass movement in defiance of the British Raj and its representative, C. P. Ramaswami Iyer, who was in charge of the Travancore province at the time.

A series of events led to an incident in which a charged mob of agitated farmers attacked the Pangode police outpost and killed a policeman.

[11] In the ensued crossfire between the police and the agitators, two freedom fighters, Plankeezhil Krishna Pillai and Cheruvalam Kochu Narayanan Achary, were also killed.

[13][14][15][16] The 75th anniversary of the Kallara-Pangode Struggle was celebrated on 29 September 2013, and was led by the Chief Minister of Kerala, Oommen Chandy.

The nearest operating centre of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) is ten kilometres away in Palode on the Thiruvananthapuram-Sengottai interstate highway.