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Lotageri 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, Lotageri ranks #45 of 104 villages in Muddebihal mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Lotageri is a village of 1,203 people in 227 households (Census 2011) in Muddebihal taluk, Vijayapura district, Karnataka, the 45th-largest of 104 villages in Muddebihal taluk. Literacy is 50%, 6 points below the taluk average of 56% and the sex ratio is 988 women per 1,000 men. It lies 42 km from the Vijayapura district centre, 21 km from Nalatawad, the nearest town, 43 km from Kudala Sangama railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 586124, served by Nalatwad post office; the LGD village code is 599675. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, 5 km away. The village votes in Ron assembly constituency, represented by MLA Gurupadagouda Sanganagouda Patil. The population is estimated at 1,418 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Bijjur →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lotageri · this village | 1,203 | 50% | — |
| Narayanpur Rural · Hunasagi | 6,317 | 65% | 7.2 km NE |
| Nagarabetta · Muddebihal | 1,053 | 50% | 8.8 km N |
| Narakaladinni · Lingsugur | 1,485 | 44% | 9.1 km SE |
| Madasanal · Vijayapura | 1,684 | 52% | 9.7 km NW |
| Anapakatti · Hungund | 582 | 46% | 10.6 km SW |
| Garasangi · Muddebihal | 710 | 54% | 11.4 km W |
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.
1 Mosque mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
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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