Belavanaki

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Belavanaki Bolunki
Village
Belavanki
Coordinates: 12°58′41″N 77°34′08″E / 12.9779204°N 77.5687766°E / 12.9779204; 77.5687766
Country	Climatic regions of India (Köppen )

Belavanaki is a village in southern state of

Location

It is located:

• It is located 31 km towards North from district headquarters in Gadag
• 19 km from Ron
• 433 km from State capital
  Bangalore
• Mallapur (7 km), Yavagal (8 km), Hadli (10 km), Lingadal (11 km Balaganur (11 km) are the nearby villages to Belavanaki
• Belavanaki is surrounded by Naragund Taluk towards west, Navalgund Taluk towards west, Gadag Taluk towards South, Badami Taluk towards North
• Ron, Nargund, Navalgund, Gadag are the nearby Cities to Belavanaki
• As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raj Act, Belavanaki village is administered by Adhyaksha (Head of Village) who is elected representative of village.

Profile

• Gram Panchayat:Belavanaki
• Village Panchayat Chairman:Hanamantappa Saidapur
• Number of Wards:06
• Number of Home hold:1,002 (census 2001)
• Assembly Constituency:Naragund Constituency
• Lokasabha Constituency:Bagalkot Lokasabha
• Member of Parliament:P C Gaddigoudar
• Member of Legislative Assembly:B R Yavagal (Naragund)

History and origin of the village name

According to the Ron inscription introduces the Ganga subordinate Mahamandalika Butayya as the governor of Gangavadi-96,000, Belvola-300,

Here people used to call Bolunki, Bolunaki in their own dialect while speaking. Belavanaki is considered to be one of the most important village where its development is considered. Educational institutions, small scale industries like cotton mills, and its history goes back to British colonial period these mills are started by the local feudal land lords. Nevertheless, these mills work in season time and moreover attraction of these mills is old charm where monumental structure and buildings are at the epicentre of the village. This village generally connected with five roads including state highway, it made village like semi urban area because it has school, colleges, bank, film talkies, primary health centre, these urban like features attract peoples from all the villages which are surrounded with Belavanaki.and It is also a birthplace of S. R. Hiremath social activist and Founder President of Samaja Parivarthana Samudaya, National Committee for Protection of Natural Resources and India Development Service.

Culture and temples

In Belavanaki, the majority of the peoples are Hindu and Muslims therefore all festivals are here two religions centric but despite of their different religious faith both they celebrate almost all the festivals, this shows us the village cultural heritage and harmony among the two religion. Local attractions are:

• Shree Veerabadreswara temple
• Rayara temple
• Basavanna Devara temple
• Mustigeri Dyamamma temple
• Gaali Durgamma temple
• Maruti temple
• Gurulingammmana Matt
• Balaganur Math
• Laxmi temple.
• Shivananda temple
• Gowri Gudi
• Amareshwara temple
• Mylaradevara Gudi
• Kappatana Gudi
• Doddeswara Gudi
• Kallibasaveswara Temple

• Katti Basavannana Gudi
• Nagappana Katti
• Akka Mahadevi Gudi
• Nandhi Basavannana Gudi.
• Mecca Masid

Here the newly carved statue of Veerabhadra which is considered to be best kind of sculpture in recent time in Karnataka, therefore people from various part of state use to come here to visit this temple.

Youth and self help groups

Belavanaki is also not lacking behind for establishing organisations, co-operative societies, Self-help groups in the village. Here youth and peasant union are strong hold in raising issues of youths, farmers, women's, students in the Gram Sabha meeting.

Names of the youth and self-help groups in Belavanaki

• Bhumika Mahila swasahay sangha
• Salumarada Timmakka Swasahay Sangha
• Annapurneshwari Swasahay Sangha
• Vidyashree Swasahay Sangha
• Lakshmi Devi
• Renuka Sthri Shakti Sangha
• Sharada swasahay sangha
• Akkamahadevi Swasahay Sangha
• Dhaneshwari sthri Shakti Sangha
• Dyamavva Swasahay Sangha
• Gajanana Geleyara Balaga

• Bhagath Singh Yuvakara sangha

Education institutions

• Shree Veerabadreswara arts and commerce composite pre-university College
• Kannada boys’ model school
• Kannada girl's model school
• Government Urdu primary School
• Navadarshan nursery English medium school

Demographics

As of 2001 India census, Belavanaki had a population of 5118 with 2642 males and 2476 females.^[1]

The population of children age 0–6 is 533 which makes up 11.01% of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Belavanaki village is 945 which is lower than Karnataka state average of 973. Child Sex Ratio for the Belavanaki as per census is 864, lower than Karnataka average of 948. village has lower literacy rate compared to Karnataka. In 2011, literacy rate of Belavanaki village was 71.41% compared to 75.36% of Karnataka. In Belavanaki Male literacy stands at 81.74% while female literacy rate was 60.60%.

Transportation

Ron is the nearest town to Belavanaki. Ron is 19 km from Belavanaki. Road connectivity is there from Ron to Belavanaki.

Nearby railway stations are:

• Hubli Airport- 69 km
• Sambra Airport (Belagavi, Karnataka)- 116 km
• Kolhapur Airport (Maharashtra)- 193 km
• Dabolim Airport
  (Panaji, Goa)- 210 km

Places to visit

• Badami- 33 km
• Pattadakkal- 45 km
• Aihole- 57 km
• Hubli- 64 km
• Hospet- 111 km

Nearby cities

• Ron- 19 km
• Naragund- 24 km
• Navalgund- 25 km
• Gadag
  - 31 km

Taluks

• Ron- 19 km
• Naragund- 24 km
• Navalgund- 25 km
• Gadag
  - 31 km

District headquarters

• Gadag
  - 31 km
• Bagalkot- 65 km
• Dharwad- 74 km
• Koppal- 81 km

See also

• Gadag
• Districts of Karnataka

References

• James M. Campbell (1884). Gazetteer of Bombay Presidency Volume xxii Dharwar. Bombay: Government Central Press. p. 857.

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20090409224557/http://gadag.nic.in/
• http://www.whatisindia.com/inscriptions/south_indian_inscriptions/volume_11/introduction1.html
• http://gazetteer.kar.nic.in/gazetteer/distGazetteer.html#
• https://archive.org/stream/karnatakainscrip014940mbp#page/n7/mode/2up
• https://books.google.com/books?id=pI9IAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP1