"We need new classrooms soon": Students attend classes outdoors in Karnataka's Raichur amid classroom shortage
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Kurdi observes Mysuru Dasara on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Karnataka.
The principal temple recorded for Manvi mandal is Sri Nagareshwar & Sri Vasavi Temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Kurdi 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, Kurdi ranks #1 of 71 villages in Manvi mandal — the largest.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kurdi is a village of 8,910 people in 1,536 households (Census 2011) in Manvi taluk, Raichur district, Karnataka, the largest of 71 villages in Manvi taluk. Literacy is 42%, 1 points below the taluk average of 43% and the sex ratio is 1,007 women per 1,000 men. It lies 47 km from the Raichur district centre, 22 km from Kosigi, the nearest town, 10 km from Matmari railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 584203, served by Kurdi post office; the LGD village code is 600999. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Matmari, 9 km away. The village votes in Raichur Rural assembly constituency, represented by MLA Basanagouda Daddal. The population is estimated at 10,116 in 2026, up 14% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Kurdi →
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.
2 Mosques 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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