Karugunda observes Mysuru Dasara on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Karnataka.
Temples near Karugunda
Named places of worship on record
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.
Kodagu keeps its own Dasara at Madikeri, going back more than a century and a half to the Haleri kings. Four karagas open it — a decorated vessel of rice, nine grains and holy water carried on a shaved head — and ten mantapas, each showing a demon being killed, are taken through the town to close it.
By population, Karugunda ranks #38 of 67 villages in Madikeri mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Karugunda is a village of 1,430 people in 409 households (Census 2011) in Madikeri taluk, Kodagu district, Karnataka, the 38th-largest of 67 villages in Madikeri taluk. Literacy is 83%, 5 points above the taluk average of 78% and the sex ratio is 1,000 women per 1,000 men. It lies 133 km from the Kodagu district centre, 5 km from B.Kanabur, the nearest town, 31 km from Masarahalli railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 571201, served by Madikeri West post office; the LGD village code is 617805. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Guthiyadehalli, 16 km away. The village votes in Madikeri assembly constituency, represented by MLA Dr. Mantar Gowda. The population is estimated at 1,686 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Bettageri →
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.
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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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