Thimiri is a village in

Hosdurg taluk Hosdurg is one of four taluks that constitute the Kasaragod District, Kerala. Others are Kasaragod, Manjeshwaram and Vellarikundu taluks. In the north, it borders Kasaragod taluk; in south, the Kannur District; in the east, Vellarikundu talu ...

Kasaragod district Kasaragod ( and Malayalam language, Malayalam: , English language, English: ''Kassergode'', Tulu language, Tulu: ''Kasrod'', Arabic language, Arabic: ''Harkwillia'') is one of the 14 List of districts of Kerala, districts in the southern Indi ...

in Kerala state, India. Thimiri is located 3 km east of

Cheruvathur Cheruvathur is a town and grama panchayat in the Kasaragod district, state of Kerala. It is located from the district headquarters Kasaragod. Transportation Local roads have access to NH-66 which connects to Mangalore in the north and Kannur i ...

on Cheruvathur-Cheemeni road.

Demographics

As of 2011 Census, Thimiri village had total population of 5,511 which constitutes 2,640 males and 2,871 females. Thimiri village has an area of with 1,344 families residing in it. The sex ratio of Thimiri was 1087, higher than state average of 1084. In Thimiri, Population of children under 6 years was 10.6%. Thimiri had overall literacy of 93% where male literacy stands at 96.3% and female literacy was 89.9%.

Administration

Thimiri village is part of

Kayyur Kayyur is a village in Kasaragod district in the state of Kerala, India.Nearest town is Cheemeni. Administration Kayyur is a small village in the Hosdurg taluk. Kayyur Incident In 1940, peasants there under the leadership of communists ...

Cheemeni Cheemeni is a small town in Hosdurg taluk of Kasaragod district in the state of Kerala, India. Demographics As of the 2011 India census, Cheemeni had a population of 8,283 with 3,908 males and 4,375 females. Transportation Local roads have acce ...

Grama Panchayat Gram Panchayat () is a basic village-governing institute in Indian villages. It is a democratic structure at the grass-roots level in India. It is a political institute, acting as cabinet of the village. The Gram Sabha work as the general bod ...

in Nileshwaram Block Panchayat. Thimiri village is politically a part of

Thrikaripur (State Assembly constituency) Niyamasabha Election 2016 There were 1,90,119 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election. Niyamasabha Election 2011 There were 1,78,139 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election. ...

which belongs to Kasaragod Loksabha constituency.

Transportation

NH 66 National Highway 66, commonly referred to as NH 66 (erstwhile NH-17 and a part of NH-47), is a mostly 4 lane long busy National Highway (India), National Highway that runs roughly north–south along the western coast of India, parallel to t ...

is easily accessible from

town.

Mangalore Mangalore (), officially known as Mangaluru, is a major port city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is located between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats about west of Bangalore, the state capital, 20 km north of Karnataka–Ker ...

and

Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...

can be accessed on the northern side and

Kochi Kochi (), also known as Cochin ( ) ( the official name until 1996) is a major port city on the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea, which is a part of the Arabian Sea. It is part of the district of Ernakulam in the state of K ...

and

Trivandrum Thiruvananthapuram (; ), also known by its former name Trivandrum (), is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala. It is the most populous city in Kerala with a population of 957,730 as of 2011. The encompassing urban agglomeration populati ...

on the southern side. The nearest railway station is

Cheruvathur railway station Cheruvathur railway station (Code: CHRV) is a railway station in Kasaragod District, Kerala and falls under the Palakkad railway division of the Southern Railway zone, Indian Railways Indian Railways (IR) is a statutory body under th ...

on Shoranur-Mangalore Section under Southern railway. The nearest international airports are at

Kannur Kannur (), formerly known in English as Cannanore, is a city and a municipal corporation in the state of Kerala, India. It is the administrative headquarters of the Kannur district and situated north of the major port city and commercial hu ...

and

References

Cheruvathur area Villages in Kasaragod district {{Kasaragod-geo-stub