Kaniyur is a suburb of palani which is also a
town panchayat
A nagar panchayat (town panchayat; ) or Notified Area Council (NAC) in India is a settlement in transition from rural to urban and therefore a form of an urban political unit comparable to a municipality. An urban centre with more than 12,000 ...
in
Tirupur District
Tiruppur District is one of the 38 districts of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, formed in 22 February 2009. Dharapuram was the largest taluk by area in the district. The district is well-developed and industrialized. The Tiruppur banian indust ...
in the
Indian state
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History
Pre-indepen ...
of
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a States and union territories of India, state in southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of India ...
. Kaniyur is also called Dravida Iyakkathin Thotti. It is one of the 'K' villages located near to
dmelpettai
It is located on the banks of the
Amaravathi River
The Amaravati River is the longest tributary of Kaveri River in the fertile districts of Udumalpet, Dharapuram and Karur Tamil Nadu state, South India.
Notes
The long Amaravati River begins at the Kerala/Tamil Nadu border at the bottom of M ...
in Tirupur District.
Kaniyur had a Sivan temple. It was an ancient period temple( approx. 1200AD). Kaniyur has an old mosque which was 128-years-old in 2015.
Agriculture is the main occupation of people. Sugar cane, rice, vethala kodikal are the main crops in Kaniyur.
Kaniyur is the junction of many villages to connect the town of Udumalpet, Dharapuram, Kadathur, Keeranur, Madathukulam and Palani.
Sri Venkatakrishna School celebrated its 100th year recently. Krishna Yajur Veda Padasala is in this village. President Abdul Kalam has visited this school.
Several Leaders of the Dravidian movement have been born in this town namely K.A. Murugesan, K. A. Mathialagan and K. A. Krishnasamy.
Demographics
India
census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...
,
Kaniyur had a population of 15,200. Males constitute 49% of the population and females 51%. Kaniyur has an average literacy rate of 68%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 75%, and female literacy is 61%. In Kaniyur, 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.
See also
*
Kaniyooru
Kaniyooru, also spelled Kaniyooru is a village in Puttur taluk in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka state, India. It houses one of the Ashta Mathas established by Madhvacharya, the Dvaita philosopher. The village is located on Mangalore t ...
References
External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20090829003438/http://www.census.tn.nic.in/pca2001.aspx
Cities and towns in Tiruppur district
Suburbs of Coimbatore
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