Nemom

Nemom
—  suburb  —
Nemom Location of Nemom in Kerala and India
Coordinates	8°27′28.42″N 76°59′57.82″E
Country	India
State	Kerala
District(s)	Thiruvananthapuram
Subdistrict(s)	Thiruvananthapuram taluk
Parliamentary constituency	Trivandrum
Assembly constituency	Nemom
Civic agency	Thiruvananthapuram Corporation
Zone	Nemom, Ponnumangalam
Ward	66, 67
Time zone	IST (UTC+05:30)
Codes • Pincode • 695020 • Telephone • +91 471 • Vehicle • KL-01

Nemom is a suburb of the city of Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram), capital of Kerala state, India. It lies 8 km to the south of the city center, on the main arterial highway leading to Kanyakumari, the southernmost tip of India. Nemom now falls within the municipal corporation of Trivandrum, though partly exclusive. It is connected with Trivandrum, Neyyattinkara, Vizhinjam, Poovar, Kattakkada, Nagarcoil, and Kanyakumari by regular bus services.

Nemom has a Government Ayurveda Clinic. There is a public market at Pravachambalam, about one kilometre away from Nemom.

Politics

Nemom assembly constituency is part of Trivandrum (Lok Sabha constituency).

Shri Shashi Tharoor of Indian National Congress represents the area in the Indian Parliament (Lok Sabha).

Shri V. Sivankutty of CPI (M) is the MLA representing Nemom Assembly Constituency in the Kerala Legislative Assembly (Niyama Sabha) after 2011 assembly election.

Administration

Nemom consists of 2 wards of Trivandrum Corporation. Nemom itself as 66th ward and Ponnumangalam as 67th.

Village

Nemom village comes within Thiruvananthapuram taluk. Thiruvananthapuram district has four taluks namely, Thiruvananthapuram, Neyyattinkara, Nedumangad and Chirayinkeezh. There are 120 villages under the 4 taluks of the district.

Government Offices

Central Government

• Nemom Post Office
• Nemom Railway Station
• BSNL Telephone Exchange, Nemom
• Office of the Sub Divisional Engineer, BSNL

State Government

• Office of the Circle Inspector of Police (Nemom Police Station)
• Trivandrum Corporation Zonal Office, Nemom
• Nemom Village Office
• Nemom Sub Registrar's Office
• KSEB Section Office, Nemom
• PWD Section Office, Nemom
• Government Hospital, Santhivila

Educational institutions

• Sree Vidyadhiraja Homoeopathic Medical College
• Sree Vidyadhiraja Pharmacy College
• Victory Boys' Higher Secondary School
• Victory Girls' High School
• Tolstoy Memorial Public School, Santhivila
• New UPS, Santhivila
• Little Flower Convent, Vellayani Jn.
• Government UP School, Nemom
• Swami Vivekananda Mission Central School, Koliakode

Other Major Establishments

• Merryland Studios, which played important roles in the history of Malayalam cinema, was opened in 1951 by veteran director-producer P. Subramaniam)
• Venus Engineering Works & Foundry Ltd. (Bicycle parts manufacturing unit of Metro Exporters, Mumbai)
• Thejas Cinemas (Movie theater)
• Vellayani Devi Temple
• Thaliyadichapuram Sree Mahadeva Temple
• Maha Ganapathy Temple
• Nemom Muslim Juma Masjid, Vellayani Jn.

External links

• Kerala State election 2006 results of Nemom constituency
• Map of Thiruvananthapuram District
• Thiruvananthapuram Administration
• Development is the core theme in Nemom