CHAPTER - 2

GENERAL PROFILE OF CHITRADURGA DISTRICT

INTRODUCTION
Chitradurga is a first city with historical background District has number of tourist
places like fort of regime of palegaras covering Anebagilu, Rangaiana Bagilu, Onake
Obavvana kindi etc. District has other historical places like Halurameshwara, Sri
Ranganatha Temple, Guru Thipparudraswamy Temple at Nayakanahatti etc.,
District has rich natural resources like lime stone, manganese etc., district has
traditional artisans engaged in wool weaving, silk weaving and handicraft. Challakere taluk
of the district is popularly known as oil centre of Karnataka, since good many number of oil
mills, solvent extraction plants are located. The district has good number of training centers
and network of APMC’s for items like, ground nuts, maize, sunflower, arecanut and oil
seeds. District has good yield of coconut and us such number of coir industries are located
district has other industries like cotton plant, cotton ginning etc. district has number of
traditional silk weaving artisans and wool weavers.

HISTORY
The history of this region dates back to pre-historic period of 600 B.C according to
the excavations conducted at Chandravalli under the guidance of Dr. M.H. Krishna by the
department of archaeological researchers, Mysore state. It was pre-eminently the land of
assures in the age of the epics. Dynasties like nanolas, morays. Satavahanas, Kadamba,
Chalukyas, Plazas, Retracts, Cholas, Vijayanagar kings and lastly the famous palayapuras of
Chitradurga, had ruled the district the seven round fort built by palegaras at top of the hills
of the Chinnamuladri adjacent to the city has brought the tourism value to the city.
PHYSICAL FEATURES
The district is located between 1334’ and 1510’ north longitudes and 75’ 37’ and 77’
01’ east longitudes. It is surrounded bellary district in the north. Ananthapur district of
Andhra Pradesh in the east, Tumkur district in the south – west and the Survey found
Davangere district in the west. Generally speaking the whole district is dry land,
characterized by huge, understanding plans. It lies in the valley of vedavathi river. It comes
under the Krishna basin as the only river vedavathi flowing now in the district joins the
Krishna River. Vedavathi is a river of two tributaries veda and Avathi. Bauxite, Chromium,
Gold, Iron ore, lime stone, manganese, pyrites. White quartzes are the important minerals
available in the district. The weather during summer is too hat and receives less rainfall.
The average rainfall is 756 mm.
December to February is cold season with clear bright weather. March to June is hot
summer. The temperature manager between 27.90 to 42.200 C.

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ECONOMY AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Chitradurga district has a geographical area of 7,70,702 hectares. The area covered
by forest is 76,646 hectares. The total cultivated land is 4,22,574 hectares and non
cultivatable land including barren land of 25,403 hectares, is 76,646 hectares (%) in the
year 2001 – 02 out of the total cultivated land, irrigated land is 70,500 hectares.
Farming vanivillas dam partial tanks and tube wells, are the sources of irrigation.
Tower, Ragi, Coconut.
And arecanut plantations are the main plantations Sugar cane, oilseeds, onion,
mulbery, plants are important commercial crops Horticulture, Sericulture, and animal
husbandry are other activities carried out in addition to agriculture which is a main
occupation. There are no of large scale industries. Medium scale cottage and village
industries are the important industries table gives details about the agriculture industry
infrastructure computed by high power committee for redressal of regional imbalances
appointed by the government of Karnataka under the chairmanship of Dr. D.M. Nanjundapa
the economist.

According to the committees report the district was in 11 th place in the state in 1960-
61 and has gone up to 6th place by the end of 1998-99. The total population as per the census
is 2001 is 15, 10,227 with literacy rate of 64.88%. It has 1792 Primary schools with
2,74,404 children, 331 high schools with 15,695 students and 24 colleges (general) with
8147 students in the year 2001-2002. The district plan outlay for the year 2001 -02 was
542,785 lakhs including state and central government, contribution
Table 1.General

Sl.No. Particular No. of units

1. Taluks 06

2. Hoblies 22

3. Villages 1059

Table 2.Land use

Sl.No. Particular Hectares

1. Total geographical area 7,70,702,

2. Forest 22,73,719

3. Permanent partures and 88,740

grazing

4. Land 68,242

5. Irrigated land 3,58,037

6. Net area sown 46,279

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 Table 3.Live stock

Sl.No. Particular No. of Live

1. Buffaloes 1,72,777

2. Sheep 7,16,433

3. Goats 2,15,140

4. Pigs 7,923

Table 4.Industries

Sl.No. Particular No. of units

1. Factories 148

2. Employees 6212

3. Small scale industries 6554

4. Workers 28615

5. Industrial sheds 60

6. Industrial estates 03

Table 5.Transportation and communication

Sl.No. Particular No. of Vehicles

1. Motor cycles 38,225

2. Cars 2301

3. Cabs 190

4. Rickshaws 2740

5. Omni buses 70

6. Goods vehicles 1140

7. Others 8716

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 Table 6.Banks

Sl.No. Particular No. of Banks

1. Commercial Banks 51

2. Regional-Rural Banks 65

3. Total deposits (Rs in lakhs) 51,375

Table 7.Population

Sl.No. Particular No. of Persons

1. Male 7,72,649

2. Female 7,37,578

3. Total 15,10,227

4. Rural 12,36,148

5. Urban 2,74,079

Table 8.Workers

Sl.No. Particular No. of Workers

1. Main 5,76,024

2. Marginal 1,46,058

3. Non workers 7,88,148

4. Cultivators 2,79,646

5. Agriculture labors 2,40,942

Table 9.Literacy rate

Sl.No. Particular Percentage

1. Total 64.88

2. Male 74.69

3. Female 54.62

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 Table 10.Education

Sl.No. Particular No. of Schools

1. Primary school 1,823

Children 2,55,556

2. High school 305

Children 60,249

3. P.U.College 85
Students 9641

Table 11.Economic infrastructure index

Sl.No. Particular No. of units

1. Relatively developed taluks 01

2. Backward Taluks 02

3. Most backward taluks 02

4. Most back backward taluks 01

Table 12.Education infrastructure development index

Sl.No. Particular No. of units

1. Relatively developed taluks 05

2. Backward Taluks 01

3. Male backward taluks -

4. Most back backward taluks -

Table 13. Existing industries in the district.

Sl.No Name of the Industry Total No. Installed Total Production

. Capacity Per day Per year
per unit

01. Briquetted fuel 05 1.5.MT 900 MT

02. Fried Gram 06 5MT 3825 MT

03. Vermicelli 17 25 kg 32 MT

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04. Masala Powder 20 20 kg 30 MT

05. Bakery products 68 25 kg 127.5 MT

06. Coffee roasting and 19 15 kg 5.10 MT

grinding

07. Pickles and paped Mfg. 08 2 kg 32 MT

08. Edible and Non-edible 100 2 MT 14000 MT

oil

09. Decorticating 136 5 MT 38250 MT

10. Flour mills/wet grinding 695 200 kgs. 8600 MT

11. Rice/Mandkki Bhatti 22 5 MT 7500 MT

12. Poultry/Cattle Feeds 15 2 MT 3000 MT

13. Readymade Garments 192 20 No.s 11.5 lakh No.s

14. Wool weaving/Knitting 131 5 kg 75 MT

15. Silk reeling/Twisting 26 5 kg 25.5 MT

16. Wooden 216 20 No.s 10200 No.s

furniture/Carpentery

17. Wood saw mill 24 1000 Cft 43.20 Cft

18. Cane and Bamboo 37 200 No.s 13.2 No.s

19. Printing/Offset printing 97 1000 No.s 174.6 No.s

20. Bokbinding 24 100 No.s 4.32 No.s

21. Screen printing/DTP 24 1000 No.s 43.2 No.s

22. Paper Envelopes 10 1000 No.s 18 No.s

23. Footwear 266 10 Pairs 4.79 Lakh

24. Tyre Retreading 32 35 No.s 2 No.s

25. PVC Pipes Mfg. 01 500 kgs. 127.5 MT

26. Polythelen bags 02 100 kg 75 MT

27. Candle work 06 500 kg 300 MT

28. Lime/chalk crayon 42 25 kg 75 MT

Industries

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29. Bricks 23 50000 No.s 3450 lakh No.s

30. Cement product/soil 58 5000 No.s 522 No.s

bricks

31. Pottery 52 10 No.s 93.600 No.s

32. Stone crushing 11 40 unit 79.200 units

33. General Engineering 510 250 kg 22950 MT

34. Steel furniture 212 200 kg 7632 MT

manufacturing

35. Electrical Transformer & 147 10 No.s 187500 No.s

Motor Rewinding

36. Radio/TV/Tape recorder 48 10 No.s 30000 No.s

repair

37. Vehicle body 96 20 No.s 30600 No.s

building/servicing

38. Tube reconditioning 124 10 No.s 16000 No.s

39. Battery reconditioning 30 10 No.s 60000 No.s

40. Watch repair 28 05 No.s 7500 No.s

41. Gold smithy 81 10 gm 145 kg

42. Ice candy Mfg. 18 500No.s 8.0 lakh No.s

43. Photo studio/framework 38 100 No.s 300000 No.s

44. Xerox/STD Booth 68 400 No.s 48 Lakh No.s

45. Umbrella repair 21 10 No.s 30000 No.s

496. Beauty parlour 16 05 No.s 14000 No.s

47. Dish Antenna 25 200 No. PA 3000 No.s

48. Repacking of tea 01 100 kg 18 MT

49. Seed processing 01 1 Mt 180 MT

50. Areca-nut processing 66 0.70 MT 2700 MT

51. Coconut powder 01 0.10 MT 30 MT

52 Sooji & Wheat flour 03 4 MT 3600 MT

industries

53 Tamarind seeds 03 4 MT 1800 MT

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 decorticating

54. Destoner 04 0.2 MT 51 MT

55. Bed Mfg 13 5 No.s 7500 No.s

56. Cotton fabrics 28 1 MT 2520 MT

57. Cotton Ginning 17 200 kg 612 MT

58. Plastic articles 09 0.24 MT 388 MT

59. Ball pen refill mfg 01 15 Gross 4500 Gross

60. Safety match 05 20 Gross 30000 Gross

61. Agarbathi 16 10 Kgs 15.30 MT

62. Soap industries 03 100 Kg 54 MT

63. Phenyl & Terpentine mfg 01 50 L 15000 L

64. Distilled water mfg./ 04 40 Bottles (each 24000 Bottles

Aerated water bottle 750 ml).

65. Tiles mfg. 01 1000 No.s 200000 No.s

66. Optical Lenses 02 Rs.0.25/Months Rs.5.10 Lakhs

67. Vessel Mfg 02 20 No.s 12000 No.s

68. Wire redrawing 02 0.4 MT 120 MT

69. X-ray & ECG 08 Rs 15,000/Month Rs. 8.00 Lakhs

70. Dry cleaning 02 40 [aors 16000 pairs

71. Cushion work 16 Rs. 20,000/Month Rs. 23.00 Lakhs

72. Soda factory/Soft drinks 05 500 L 2.25 Lakhs

73. Scented supari 01 50 kg 8.5 MT

74. Die cutting industries 05 Rs. 200 Rs.2.55 Lakhs

75. Other repair/servicing 66 Rs 3000/Months Rs. 14.25 Lakhs

76. Coir difibring 10 5 MT 6375 MT

77. Coir product Mfg. 08 150 kgs 216 MT

78. Broom sticks 05 100 No’s 90,000 No’s

79. Silk sarries weaving 85 2m 30,600 m