Shagya observes Gowri Ganesha Habba on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Karnataka.
By population, Shagya ranks #10 of 50 villages in Hanur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Shagya is a village of 6,013 people in 1,404 households (Census 2011) in Hanur taluk, Chamarajanagara district, Karnataka, the 10th-largest of 50 villages in Hanur taluk. Literacy is 51%, 1 points below the taluk average of 52% and the sex ratio is 940 women per 1,000 men. It lies 32 km from the Chamarajanagara district centre, 0 km from Sathegala, the nearest town, 30 km from Chamarajanagar railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 571439, served by Hanur post office; the LGD village code is 619853. The nearest hospital or health centre is Janani Hospital, <1 km away. The village votes in Magadi assembly constituency, represented by MLA H. C. Balakrishna. The population is estimated at 7,089 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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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.
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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