"We need new classrooms soon": Students attend classes outdoors in Karnataka's Raichur amid classroom shortage
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Bommanhalli observes Mysuru Dasara on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Karnataka.
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, Bommanhalli ranks #18 of 91 villages in Arakera mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bommanhalli is a village of 2,009 people in 285 households (Census 2011) in Arakera taluk, Raichur district, Karnataka, the 18th-largest of 91 villages in Arakera taluk. Literacy is 36%, 1 points below the taluk average of 37% and the sex ratio is 987 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 584116, served by Jalahalli post office; the LGD village code is 600554. The village votes in Kanakagiri assembly constituency, represented by MLA Tangadagi Shivaraj Sangappa. The population is estimated at 2,369 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Hosur Siddapur →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bommanhalli · this village | 2,009 | 36% | — |
| Hosur Siddapur · Arakera | 2,657 | 29% | — |
| Bassapur · Arakera | 244 | 35% | — |
| Mudvaigaddi · Arakera | 198 | 34% | — |
| Horahatti · Arakera | 0 | — | — |
| Thimmapura · Arakera | — | — | — |
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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