Begar observes Mysuru Dasara on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Karnataka.
Temples near Begar
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Sringeri mandal is Mullayyanagiri Temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Begar itself.
Nadahabba — the state festival. Bombe Habba doll steps at home; Mysuru Dasara is the public form, the Jamboo Savari procession on Vijayadashami carrying the Chamundeshwari idol on a decorated elephant.
The regional form observed across Karnataka. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
By population, Begar ranks #11 of 49 villages in Sringeri mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Begar is a village of 852 people in 178 households (Census 2011) in Sringeri taluk, Chikkamagaluru district, Karnataka, the 11th-largest of 49 villages in Sringeri taluk. Literacy is 84%, 5 points above the taluk average of 79% and the sex ratio is 1,114 women per 1,000 men. It lies 77 km from the Chikkamagaluru district centre, 34 km from Kalasa, the nearest town, 48 km from Barkur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 577120, served by Hariharapura post office; the LGD village code is 608916. The nearest hospital or health centre is Sharada Dhanvantari Charitable Hospital, 10 km away. The village votes in Chikmagalur assembly constituency, represented by MLA H. D. Thammaiah. The population is estimated at 967 in 2026, up 13% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Begaru →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Begar · this village | 852 | 84% | — |
| Begar · Siddapur | 276 | 91% | 0 km N |
| Bidaragodu · Tirthahalli | 1,039 | 77% | 1.9 km NW |
| Shanuvalli · Koppa | 168 | 71% | 4 km E |
| Shanuvalli · Sorab | 626 | 57% | 4 km E |
| Holekoppa · Tirthahalli | 591 | 75% | 5.5 km SE |
| Holekoppa · Sorab | 224 | 50% | 5.5 km SE |
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
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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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