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{{Infobox settlement
|official_name = Cutchery
|other_name = Taluk Cutchery
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'''Cutchery''' or '''Taluk Cutchery''' or '''Taluk Kacheri''' is a neighbourhood of the city of [[Kollam]]. It is the 49th ward in [[Kollam Municipal Corporation]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kollamcorporation.gov.in/council&cid=2010016804601 |title=Councils - Kollam Municipal Corporation |access-date=16 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222132746/http://www.kollamcorporation.gov.in/council%26cid%3D2010016804601 |archive-date=22 December 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The place got the name ''Cutchery'' from a similar word in {{Lang-ml|കച്ചേരി}} which means office/court.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://malayalamenglishdictionary.com/index.php?option=com_glossary&letter=%E0%B4%95&id=2318&Itemid=1 |title=Malayalam English Dictionary |access-date=22 December 2014}}</ref> [[Kollam Taluk]] office is situated at Cutchery.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://postalcodesdb.com/postal_code_691001_Kollam%20Taluk%20Cutchery_India.html |title=Postal Codes DB|access-date=22 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pincode.net.in/KERALA/KOLLAM/K/KOLLAM_CUTCHERY |title=Pincode.net|access-date=22 December 2014}}</ref>

==Importance==
[[File:Our Lady of Velankanni Shrine, Kollam.jpg|right|thumb|Our Lady of Velankanni Shrine in Kacheri]]
The place Cutchery got this name because of the presence of [[Kollam Taluk]] office situated at this place. A multi-level new Taluk office complex is under construction here. Cutchery is under the Central Zone-II of [[Kollam Municipal Corporation|Kollam city corporation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ksudp.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=268&Itemid=70 |title=Building Permit Management System - Kollam Corporation|access-date=22 December 2014}}</ref> The headquarters of [[Kollam Taluk]] is situated at Cutchery. Historic Iron Bridge in [[Kollam]] city is situated at Cutchery.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/work-on-parallel-iron-bridge-begins/article3309684.ece |title=Work on parallel Iron Bridge begins | date=13 April 2012 | newspaper=The Hindu|access-date=30 July 2018}}</ref> Cutchery junction is an important road junction connecting the present [[National Highway 47 (India)|National Highway-66]] with [[Downtown Kollam|Downtown]] road and [[Asramam Link Road]]. Kollam District Hospital, [[Kollam KSRTC Bus Station]] and garage are very close to Cutchery. ''Our Lady of Velankanni Shrine'' is situated at Cutcehry. A good number of residential apartments and hotels are there in Cutchery.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kollamcity.in/palmland-apartments|title=Apartments - Cutchery|access-date=22 December 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514063647/http://kollamcity.in/palmland-apartments|archive-date=14 May 2014}}</ref> Famous Mahatma [[Gandhi Peace Foundation]] is situated at Cutchery in [[Kollam]] city.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mgpf.org/aboutus.php |title=Mahathma Gandhi Peace Foundation |access-date=22 December 2014}}</ref>

===Cutchery: An emerging transport hub of Kollam===
Cutchery junction (Taluk office junction/Taluk Kacheri junction) is an emerging transport hub of [[Kollam]] city as the place is the meeting point of [[Kerala State Water Transport Department]]'s boat yard and [[Kerala State Road Transport Corporation]]'s only bus station in the city. Taluk Kacheri junction has been included into the city's junction improvements project along with [[Chinnakada]] junction. [[Kollam Municipal Corporation]] has a plan to improve the road from Kappalandi Mukku (near [[Polayathode]]) – Taluk Kacheri junction via [[Asramam]] as one among the 3 inner ring roads in the city. As per the research report done by [[CRISIL]] for Draft City Development Plan of Kollam-2041, the [[Passenger car equivalent|passenger car equivalent (pce/pcu)]] in Taluk Kacheri junction during peak hours is 6,366 which is highest in the city and its average per day value is 53,522. The road section from Taluk office junction to High School junction in [[Kollam]] city is over-utilized to the extent of 311% of its capacity. As per the National Transportation Planning and Research Centre (NATPAC), Taluk office junction is one of the most accident-prone areas in [[Kollam]] city. To avoid the traffic woes in Cutchery junction, now the [[Government of Kerala]] is constructing a new bridge parallel to the historic Iron bridge in [[Kollam]] city.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kollamcorporation.gov.in/sites/default/files/Kollam_Draft%20CDP_Final_30th%20%20June%2014_0.pdf|title='City Development Plan for Kollam, 2041' prepared by CRISIL - Pages 75, 102, 103, 104, 108|access-date=22 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229134300/http://www.kollamcorporation.gov.in/sites/default/files/Kollam_Draft%20CDP_Final_30th%20%20June%2014_0.pdf|archive-date=29 December 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Major Public/Private institutions situated near Cutchery==
* [[Kollam KSRTC Bus Station]] & Garage
* [[Kollam KSWTD Ferry Terminal|KSWTD Boat Jetty, Kollam]]
* [[Kollam Taluk]] Office
* Post Office - 691013<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiapost.gov.in/PincodeSearch.aspx?Pin_On=691013 |title=India Post - Kollam Cutchery S.O|access-date=26 December 2014}}</ref>
* KTDC Tamarind Hotel
* House boats yard, [[Kollam]]
* Hotel See Bee<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.google.co.in/maps/search/ksrtc+kollam+address/@8.890461,76.5828283,18z |title=Google Map - Cutchery, Kollam|access-date=26 December 2014}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Kollam]]
* [[Chinnakada]]
* [[RP Mall, Kollam|RP Mall]]
* [[Downtown Kollam]]

==References==
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