Choozhal

Choozhal, Krishnapuram, Piracode is located nearly 60 km from Kanyakumari and 40 km from Trivandrum. It is considered as one of the extreme border of Kerala, India.

It comes under Munchirai Municipality. It consist of a lot of Churches and Temples among them Choozhal-Piracode Sree Krishna Swamy Temple, Pammakkulangara Sree Bhadrakali Temple (Famous for Iratta Ponkala), Madathu Nada Sree Dharma Shastha Temple, St Little Flower Msc Church, St Joseph Msc Church, Ambilikonam MSC church, Choozhal RC Church, Faith in Action Church, Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's witnesses, Pentecost Church of God Zionkunnu etc. Also it is bounded with a lot of Educational institutions. Among them, Sree Krishna English Medium School, St Little Flower Matriculation School both stand for quality education. An auditorium with well equipped technologies named Jibin Auditorium is near to choozhal.

People in Choozhal are mainly farmers, Govt Employees (Maj Somasekharan Nair is the first Army Officer from the village). K. Surendran former secretary of The Temple passed a few years back. Another unfortunate incident took place, Mr Shyin Lal S/o Mr K Surendran also left on the day of annual day function in remembarance of Mr K Surendran

Sree Krishna Swamy Temple,Choozhal, Piracode,Krishnapuram

The main attraction of Choozhal is the Choozhal-Piracode Sree Krishna Swamy Temple. The temple celebrate its annual festival during the month of February - March, known as Kumbha Rohini Mahotsavam. In the early days the name of the village is known as Shankurutty. After a period of time, the name of the village got its name as Krishnapuram originated from the name of the Lord Sree Krishna. Krishnapuram situated just 4 km from Parassala Kerala and 6 km from Kaliyakkavilai Tamil Nadu. Well connected with bus, rail and air. Nearest Railway Station, Thiruvananthapuram situated 40 km (Approximate) and Nagercoil with a distance of 50 km (Approximate). IT Coordinates: 8°19'9"N 77°7'43"E in wikimapia.india.Once upon a time, this temple was a bhajan mandir and URIYADI WITH BHAJANA PATTABHISHEKAM (annual festival)was conducted regularly.Late sri.Sivasankara panicker presided the temple committee for a long period.Then it was demolished in 1973 and new sri Krishna temple was constructed with effective participation of public in17.04.1979 by a committee presided by sri.K.Govindan panicker with secretary Late.sri.K.G.Panicker.Notable services contributed by late sri.Sadanandan as president,&K.Surendran as secretary for about 18 years. The present temple was reconstructed in 18.02.2008 with the help of natives.There is also a Bhadrakali Temple situated in Piracode, opposite to Krishanpuram famous for Iratta Ponkala. Kumbharohini Maholsavam for this year starts on 17 Feb 2015 and ends on 26 Feb 2015. The main event of the festival 'Khoshayatra' will be conducted on the second day of the festival which is 18 Feb 2015.The procession starts from Sree subramanya swamy temple kollemcode at 3 in the afternoon and ends at Sree Krishna Swamy temple premises by around 7 in the evening. Samoohasadhya is arranged for all the devotees for all the ten days of the festival.

Club (Youth social services)

A Youths Social Services society (YSS) located at Krishnapuram performing duties of social services in the area, a helpful society for the villagers. A library with huge collection of books, Information room, Public Television Room are the facilities provided. The Club Celebrate its annual function during the month of August to September in connection with onam festival, by conducting various programmes which include Sports, Arts, Quiz, etc. The club also promote students of 10th and 12th by presenting a trophy to those students who topped with marks.Great efforts were made by sri.Jayamohan&shaji in the construction of own building of YSS. YUVASAMITHI,a hand written periodical reflecting contemporary youths literature of choozhal published in1970-80s are stored in the library still inspires nostalgia of the residents.The services rendered by,sri.Rajmohan,Chandran,sreekumar,late sri.Ponnian,Raveendran,johnson,surendran,monikandan,siddarthan are ever remembered.

Restaurant

A new restaurant named OOTTUPURA is now opened in front of Sree Krishna Swamy Temple, Owner Mr Aji.