Killiyur, Kanniyakumari
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Killiyoor is a
panchayat town A nagar panchayat () or 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 12,00 ...
in Kanniyakumari district in the
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of
Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is the southernmost States and union territories of India, state of India. 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 Indi ...
. Killiyoor is one of the 6
taluks A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administrative ce ...
in the Kanniyakumari district. It includes the revenue blocks of
Munchirai Munchirai is a block or panchayat Union of Kanyakumari district, India. It is one among the nine administrative divisions of the district of Kanyakumari. It is famous for the Sivalaya Ottam as its starting point. The current president of the ...
and Killiyoor.


Demographics

India
census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
, Killiyoor had a population of 19,275. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Killiyoor has an average literacy rate of 75%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 77%, and female literacy is 72%. In Killiyoor, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.


Politics

Killiyoor (State Assembly Constituency) Killiyur is an assembly constituency located in Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha constituency in Kanyakumari district in Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is the southernmost States and union territories of India, state of India. The List of states ...
is part of
Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha constituency Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha constituency () is one of the 39 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Tamil Nadu, a state in southern India. Assembly segments Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following legislative assembly ...
. State Assembly Representatives from Killiyoor are #.R.Ponnapa Nadar #A.Neasamony #William #N.Dennis #P.Vijayarahavan #Dr. D. Kumaradas #S.John Jacob #Rajesh Kumar


References

Cities and towns in Kanyakumari district {{Kanniyakumari-geo-stub