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By population, Benkal ranks #52 of 96 villages in Devadurga mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Benkal is a village of 847 people in 143 households (Census 2011) in Devadurga taluk, Raichur district, Karnataka, the 52nd-largest of 96 villages in Devadurga taluk. Literacy is 37%, 5 points below the taluk average of 42% and the sex ratio is 1,026 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 584111, served by Deodurga post office; the LGD village code is 600592. The village votes in Manvi assembly constituency, represented by MLA G Hampayya Nayak. The population is estimated at 999 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Dondambli →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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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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