Giriyapalli 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, Giriyapalli ranks #87 of 145 villages in Bagepalli mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Giriyapalli is a village of 440 people in 94 households (Census 2011) in Bagepalli taluk, Chikkaballapura district, Karnataka, the 87th-largest of 145 villages in Bagepalli taluk. Literacy is 51%, 1 points below the taluk average of 52% and the sex ratio is 1,085 women per 1,000 men. It lies 22 km from the Chikkaballapura district centre, 28 km from Lepakshi, the nearest town, 30 km from Gidnahalli railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 561206, served by Dn Palya post office; the LGD village code is 623882. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Hampasandra, 12 km away. The village votes in Bagepalli assembly constituency, represented by MLA S.N. Subbareddy (Chinnakayalapalli). The population is estimated at 519 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Kanagamakala Palli →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Giriyapalli · this village | 440 | 51% | — |
| Kanagamakalapalli · Bagepalli | 1,086 | 53% | 1.7 km N |
| Kanagamakalapalli · Srinivaspur | 402 | 74% | 1.7 km N |
| Mittemari · Bagepalli | 2,851 | 58% | 2.3 km E |
| Dinnahalli · Kolar | 0 | — | 2.6 km W |
| Doddanancherlu · Gudibanda | 2,082 | 60% | 3.2 km SW |
| Nallamallepalli · Bagepalli | 417 | 54% | 3.5 km N |
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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