Kusukunte 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, Kusukunte ranks #149 of 249 villages in Sira mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kusukunte is a village of 551 people in 121 households (Census 2011) in Sira taluk, Tumakuru district, Karnataka, the 149th-largest of 249 villages in Sira taluk. Literacy is 55%, 8 points below the taluk average of 62% and the sex ratio is 907 women per 1,000 men. It lies 29 km from the Tumakuru district centre, 20 km from Rolla, the nearest town, 47 km from Mallasandra railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 572137, served by Sira post office; the LGD village code is 610369. The nearest hospital or health centre is Raghu Hospital, 4 km away. The village votes in Sira assembly constituency, represented by MLA T B Jayachandra. The population is estimated at 626 in 2026, up 14% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Honnagondanahalli →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kusukunte · this village | 551 | 55% | — |
| Channanakunte · Sira | 1,890 | 62% | 0.8 km SE |
| Anupanahalli · Sira | 687 | 51% | 2.9 km NE |
| Girinathanahalli · Sira | 820 | 59% | 3 km SE |
| Gummanahalli · Sira | 1,146 | 60% | 3.9 km S |
| Kallukote · Sira | 0 | — | 4.2 km W |
| Magodu · Sira | 2,859 | 60% | 4.5 km SE |
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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