Janapura observes Mysuru Dasara on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Karnataka.
Temples near Janapura
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Basavakalyan mandal is Sri Veerendra Patil Kalyana Mantapa ವೀರೇಂದ್ರ ಪಾಟೀಲ್ ಕಲ್ಯಾಣ್ ಮಂಟಪ. No temple of this dedication is on record within Janapura 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, Janapura ranks #72 of 97 villages in Basavakalyan mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Janapura is a village of 1,107 people in 231 households (Census 2011) in Basavakalyan taluk, Bidar district, Karnataka, the 72nd-largest of 97 villages in Basavakalyan taluk. Literacy is 71%, 14 points above the taluk average of 57% and the sex ratio is 1,013 women per 1,000 men. It lies 50 km from the Bidar district centre, 7 km from Rajeshwar, the nearest town, 22 km from Humanabad railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 585327, served by Basavakalyan post office; the LGD village code is 599743. The nearest hospital or health centre is Charaka Ayurvedic Hospital Dr Sadanand Patil, 6 km away. The village votes in Gulbarga Rural assembly constituency, represented by MLA Basawaraj Mattimudu. The population is estimated at 1,305 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Betbalkunda →
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.
1 Temple, 1 Mosque mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
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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