Cherickal

Cherickal is a locality in the city of Pandalam. Geographically it is situated in the eastern ending of Alappuzha district and western part of Pathanamthitta district. Southern end of cherickal is on the verge of alappuzha District (in fact cherickal formed a part of alappuzha, before it was transferred to the jurisdiction of Pathanamthitta District). Part of Pandalam Municipality and Adoor Taluk, Cherickal comes under the Pathanamthitta Parliamentary and Adoor Assembly Constituencies.

Cherickal is encompassed by valleys, paddy fields, rivulets and streams, as well as country roads that pass through rubber plantations and dales.

How to reach Cherickal Village

Cherickal borders two Districts – Alappuzha and Pathanamthitta - thus spanning on both Districts. If you are coming via Alappuzha, the ideal place to start the travel is Kayamkulam. NH 47 is passing through Kayamkulam Town and connecting Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi. From Kayamkulm one should travel to pandalam. From pandalam you will get buses and autorikshaws to cherickal. But if you are travelling through the Main Central Road (MC Road), connecting Cochin and Trivandrum, then the ideal place to step down is Pandalam. From Pandalam, it is just only 4 km to cherickal. If you are using train then alight on Chengannur railway station. From their you will get plenty of KSRTC buses to Pandalam.

From pandalam it is very easy to go to cherickal. Go to the autorikshaw stand in front of pandalam Municipality. Approach an autorikshaw driver, Tell the name of the person you want to meet. He will direct you on the right way.

Important buildings

Central part of cherickal is "Puthenkutti". Govt. ITC is there. If you turn right you will go to the SVLPS SCHOOL side. If you turn left then you go to the Cherickal Muslim jamaath masjid. "Anthruman" annan's shop is very near to masjid. If you go straight then you will reach the back side of mannam sugar mill. Now mannam ayurvedic medical college is there.

Two youth clubs are famous in cherickal also in pandalam too. Threestar and Nattarangu. The office of threestar is situated at the heart of cherickal. Nattarangu is planing to build one office.

The only one school in cherickal is SVLP school, Which is a govt. undertaking primary school.

Notable People from Cherickal

• P K Kumaran :(Ex. MLA). Former Travencore Devaswam Board Member, CPI (M) District committee member
• Pandalam Bharathan (Late): (Teacher, Orator, artist, politician) (Formerly, Kerala sambavar society state president, JSS (Gouriyamma) State executive committee member)
• P K Rajan (Formerly, Kerala pulayar mahasabha State president.)
• Lal Krishana (Famous Musician, done a lot of songs with famous artists like yesudas, Vijay yesudas, Vineeth sreenivasan, Anvar sadath, sangeetha prabhu, raja lakshmi etc.). Once, Vijay Yesudas visited lal krishna's house at cherickal.
• K N Achuthan (Bharatheeya Dalith congress state committee member, District President. Formerly, Member state Sc/ST advisory committee member)
• Suresh Kesavan (DySP Armed reserve police battalion Pathanamthitta)
• Dr. Suresh Kumar T V T (First PhD (Politics) holder in Cherickal,. Kerala University 2007, Currently Asst. Librarian MG University)
• Anup Pandalam, Comedy artist (Tharikida, surya TV), cine actor
• Dr. Syam Mohan First M.Tech Holder (Optoelectronics) in cherickal PhD Holder (Biophotonics) from Heriot Watt University (Physics), UK. With James watt scholarship. Currently, Scientist at Queens Medical Research Institute, Edinburgh, UK.