Balageri observes Gowri Ganesha Habba on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Karnataka.
By population, Balageri ranks #12 of 12 villages in Alnavar mandal — the smallest.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Balageri is a village of 4 people in 1 households (Census 2011) in Alnavar taluk, Dharwad district, Karnataka, the 12th-largest of 12 villages in Alnavar taluk. Literacy is 0%, 57 points below the taluk average of 57% and the sex ratio is 333 women per 1,000 men. It lies 87 km from the Dharwad district centre, 7 km from Kuknoor, the nearest town, 16 km from Bhanapur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 581103, served by Alnavar post office; the LGD village code is 602239. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Benakal, 9 km away. The village votes in Kalghatgi assembly constituency, represented by MLA Santosh S Lad. The population is estimated at 5 in 2026, up 25% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Benachi →
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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