Nemom

Nemom
Nemom
Suburb
	Nemom Location in Kerala, India
	Coordinates: 8°27′28.42″N 76°59′57.82″E / 8.4578944°N 76.9993944°E
Country	India
State	Kerala
District	Thiruvananthapuram
Zone	Nemom, Ponnumangalam
Ward	66, 67
Talukas	Thiruvananthapuram taluk
Government
• Body	Thiruvananthapuram Corporation
• Councilor	Deepika U, BJP
Languages
• Official	Malayalam, English
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	695020
Telephone code	91 471
Vehicle registration	KL-01
Lok Sabha constituency	Trivandrum
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Nemom
Civic agency	Thiruvananthapuram Corporation

Nemom is an area in the city of Thiruvananthapuram (formerly Trivandrum). It is surrounded by Thirumala in the north, Malayinkeezhu in the north-east, Balaramapuram in the south-east, Kovalam in the south and Thiruvallam in the west. Nemom falls within the municipal corporation of Thiruvananthapuram, though partly exclusive. It is connected with Thiruvananthapuram, Neyyattinkara, Vizhinjam, Poovar, Kattakkada, Nagarcoil, and Kanyakumari through the main arterial highway National Highway 66.

Nemom has a Government Ayurveda Clinic.^[1] There is a public market at Pravachambalam, about one kilometre away from Nemom.^{[citation needed]} Vellayani Devi Temple^[2] is located in Nemom.

Politics

Shashi Tharoor^[3] of Indian National Congress represents the area in the lower house of the Indian Parliament (Lok Sabha). V. Sivankutty of Communist Party of India (Marxist) is the MLA representing Nemom Assembly Constituency in the Kerala Legislative Assembly (Niyama Sabha) after 2021 assembly election. He is also the present Minister of the state for School Education. Deepika U of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is the present councilor of Nemom Corporation Division.

Nemom consists of 2 wards of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation. The 66th ward named as Nemom and 67th named as Ponnumangalam.

Nemom village comes under Thiruvananthapuram taluk of the six taluks of Thiruvananthapuram district namely, Thiruvananthapuram, Neyyattinkara, Nedumangad, Kattakada, Varkala and Chirayinkeezh.

Merryland Studio,^[5] 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)
Vellayani Devi Temple^[6]
Thaliyadichapuram Sree Mahadeva Temple
Maha Ganapathy Temple
Alamvila Nagaraja Temple
Elappikal Devi Temple
Thrikkannapuram Sreekrishna Swami Temple
Ananthapuram Service Co-operative Bank Nemom
Nemom Muslim Juma Masjid, Vellayani Jn.
Assemblies of God Churches
CSI Church Nemom, Nemom
Swaraj Grandhashala (Library), Nemom
Nemom Service Cooperative Bank, Vellayani Jn.
Kuruvani Juma Masjid
LS Asafoetida company, Nemom

^ "Ayushya Ayurvedic Clinic in Nemom, Trivandrum". Yentha.com. 25 July 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2013.
^ "Vellayani Devi Temple - Info, Timings, Photos, History, Videos". TemplePurohit - Your Spiritual Destination | Bhakti, Shraddha Aur Ashirwad. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
^ "Dr. Shashi Tharoor - Members of Parliament (Lok Sabha) - Who's Who - Government: National Portal of India". India.gov.in. Archived from the original on 26 December 2020. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
^ Kerala Police^{[dead link]}
^ "Good Read: Personality - P.Subramaniam;Visionary and entrepreneur". Spoonfeedin.blogspot.com. 2 January 2009. Archived from the original on 26 December 2020. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
^ Sreejith N. "Bhagavathy Temples - Vellayani Devi". Kerala Temples. Archived from the original on 26 December 2020. Retrieved 4 November 2013.