Jigeri observes Gowri Ganesha Habba on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Karnataka.
By population, Jigeri ranks #24 of 36 villages in Gajendragad mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Jigeri is a village of 900 people in 158 households (Census 2011) in Gajendragad taluk, Gadag district, Karnataka, the 24th-largest of 36 villages in Gajendragad taluk. Literacy is 57%, 2 points below the taluk average of 59% and the sex ratio is 982 women per 1,000 men. It lies 39 km from the Gadag district centre, 11 km from Hanamsagar, the nearest town, 21 km from Linganabandi railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 582114, served by Gajendragad post office; the LGD village code is 601972. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, 7 km away. The village votes in Ron assembly constituency, represented by MLA Gurupadagouda Sanganagouda Patil. The population is estimated at 1,061 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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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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