Khanapur | |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | India Karnataka#India3 |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Karnataka, India |
Coordinates: | 15.6394°N 74.5083°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | India |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Karnataka |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Belagavi |
Governing Body: | Town Panchayat |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Elevation M: | 649 |
Population Total: | 345839 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Demographics Type1: | Languages |
Demographics1 Title1: | Official |
Demographics1 Info1: | Kannada |
Timezone1: | IST |
Utc Offset1: | +5:30 |
Postal Code Type: | PIN |
Postal Code: | 591302 |
Area Code Type: | Telephone code |
Area Code: | 08336 |
Registration Plate: | KA-22 |
Iso Code: | IN-KA |
Official Name: | Khanapura |
Leader Party: | Bhartiya Janata Party |
Leader Name: | Vithal Somanna Halagekar |
Khanapur known as Khanapura is a panchayat town in Belagavi district, Karnataka, India. It is about 26 km from Belagavi. The Khanapur Municipal Council governs the town. Khanapur is the headquarters for Khanapur taluk. The town is on the Belgaum-Panaji National Highway, NH 4A. Khanapur is well connected by train and road to important cities in Karnataka, Goa, and Maharashtra. Kannada is the official language.
Khanapur has an elevation of 646m (2,119feet).
In the 2001 census, the town of Khanapur had 16,567 inhabitants, with 8,474 males (51.1%) and 8,093 females (48.9%), for a gender ratio of 955 females per thousand males.[1]
In the 2011 census, the town of Khanapur had 18,535 inhabitants.[2]
At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 42.17% of the population in the city spoke Marathi, 25.62% Kannada, 23.39% Urdu, 3.46% Hindi and 3.42% Konkani as their first language.[3]
Khanapur's economy is agriculture-based and is noted for its cultivation of crops such as sugarcane, rice,Ragi(millet), and fruits including chikoo, guava, and jackfruit. It is also famous for food items such as churmure (puffed rice) and jaggery.
Khanapur is famous for its national level pottery training centre, the Central Village Pottery Institute, which is run by khadi and a village industries commission on the banks of the Malaprabha River, where excellent pottery training is given in Redware and Whiteware technology. Also, a tourist spot in Khanapur is Chouda Musi, a small British era bridge constructed over a small dam. There is Police training school at Khanapura on the northern banks of river Malaprabha run by Karnataka state government. This Police training school imparts basic training to new recruits appointed as police constables in Karnataka state police.[4]