Vipra 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, Vipra ranks #43 of 62 villages in Gangawati mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Vipra is a village of 678 people in 131 households (Census 2011) in Gangawati taluk, Koppal district, Karnataka, the 43rd-largest of 62 villages in Gangawati taluk. Literacy is 61%, 4 points above the taluk average of 57% and the sex ratio is 626 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 583227, served by Gangavathi post office; the LGD village code is 601633. The village votes in Kampli assembly constituency, represented by MLA J N Ganesh. The population is estimated at 770 in 2026, up 14% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Sangapur →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vipra · this village | 678 | 61% | — |
| Sangapur · Gangawati | 3,727 | 56% | — |
| Ramdurg · Gangawati | 822 | 57% | — |
| Singangund · Gangawati | 9 | 100% | — |
| Rajapur · Gangawati | 4 | 50% | — |
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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