By population, Masarkal ranks #3 of 96 villages in Devadurga mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Masarkal is a village of 5,917 people in 982 households (Census 2011) in Devadurga taluk, Raichur district, Karnataka, the 3rd-largest of 96 villages in Devadurga taluk. Literacy is 46%, 5 points above the taluk average, and the sex ratio is 1,016 women per 1,000 men. It lies 53 km from the Raichur district centre, 37 km from Sagar, the nearest town, 33 km from Chegunta railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 584126, served by Mosarkal post office; the LGD village code is 600632. The nearest hospital or health centre is Vinayaka Hospital, 11 km away. The village votes in Manvi assembly constituency, represented by MLA G Hampayya Nayak. The population is estimated at 6,718 in 2026, up 14% since the 2011 Census.
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Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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