Thikri is a Nagar Parishad in Indore district in the Indianstate of Madhya Pradesh. Thikri is the tehsil office headquarters under the district of Indore covering 150 villages under its jurisdiction. The Thikri Nagar Parishad was established in the year of 1983. It is said that Sanwer is more than 250 years old town. Thikri has excellent four lane road connectivity between Indore and Ujjain provided by Madhya Pradesh Road Development Corporation. Also thikri has been good road connectivity to Gautampura and Ajnod towns via Major District roads

Thikri is an occupational term referring to someone who saws wood, particularly using a pit saw[1] either in a saw pit or with the log on trestles above ground or operates a sawmill. One such job is the occupation of someone who cuts lumber to length for the consumer market, a task now often done by end users or at lumber and home improvement stores.[2] The term is still widely used in the logging industry to refer to the operator of a chainsaw (or still in some limited applications, a crosscut saw) for harvesting, wildfire suppression, trail construction and related work. In the construction industry, the term is applied to the operator of a concrete saw.