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Huskur observes Mysuru Dasara on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Karnataka.
Temples near Huskur
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Saraguru mandal is Lakshminarayana Temple, Hosaholalu. No temple of this dedication is on record within Huskur 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.
Mysuru Dasara is Karnataka's Nadahabba, its state festival, kept for more than four centuries from the Vijayanagara period and onward through the Wadiyars. It closes on Vijayadashami with the Jamboo Savari, when the idol of Chamundeshwari is carried through the city in a golden howdah on the lead elephant, followed by cavalry, tableaux and folk troupes.
By population, Huskur ranks #62 of 101 villages in Saraguru mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Huskur is a village of 291 people in 65 households (Census 2011) in Saraguru taluk, Mysuru district, Karnataka, the 62nd-largest of 101 villages in Saraguru taluk. Literacy is 50%, 5 points below the taluk average of 55% and the sex ratio is 1,021 women per 1,000 men. It lies 123 km from the Mysuru district centre, 2 km from Harohalli, the nearest town, under 1 km from Huskuru railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 571121, served by Sargur post office; the LGD village code is 619091. The nearest hospital or health centre is JJ Hospitals, 3 km away. The village votes in Krishnarajpet assembly constituency, represented by MLA H. T. Manju. The population is estimated at 5,408 in 2026, up 1758% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Hanchipura →
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.
6 Temples, 1 Church, 1 Mosque mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
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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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