Ramanagara district
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PIN | 562117, 562159 , 562160 ,562112 |
Vehicle registration | KA 42 |
Website | ramanagara |
Ramanagara District is one of the
History
Ramanagara district was carved out of the erstwhile
Geography
This region has several tall granitic hills which are famous for many short rock climbs, typically 1 to 2 pitches in length. Grades vary from 5.8 American to 5.11 American. It is home to some of the world's oldest granite outcrops. Some of the interesting climbs are on the Wanakkal wall ("Gabbar ki asli pasand", "Labor pain"), on the Rainbow wall ("UIAA", "Kalia"), on Anna-Thamma ("Darkness at dawn", "Black Diamond", the name Anna-Thama means 'elder-brother-younger-brother' in Kannada).
Another well-known hill is Ramadevarabetta. Along with Savandurga this was one of the shooting locations for David Lean's A Passage to India. Small door like grottoes was made in the rock to resemble caves.[2] It was also in this region that the path-breaking Hindi movie, Sholay, was shot.
Other famous hills in the region include the Revanasideshwara hill and Handigundi. Bilikal Rangaswamy Betta is a popular tourist spot in the district.
These hills have been threatened by quarrying and also plans to carve these hills into statues. The region is covered in scrub forest and is home to threatened bird species such as the
Closepet granites
The Closepet granites are a major geological feature of this region and are from the Lower Proterozoic era. This belt of rocks extends in the north-south direction in 50 km belt. This belt has younger potassic granites and is believed to separate two distinct crustal blocks of Archaean age. The block to the west has low-grade granite-greenstone belts with iron-manganese ores and to the east are younger gneiss of granitic and granodioritic composition with gold-bearing schist belts.[5]
Demographics
Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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1901 | 262,843 | — |
1911 | 288,219 | +0.93% |
1921 | 311,945 | +0.79% |
1931 | 367,516 | +1.65% |
1941 | 415,233 | +1.23% |
1951 | 515,413 | +2.18% |
1961 | 598,301 | +1.50% |
1971 | 683,221 | +1.34% |
1981 | 843,509 | +2.13% |
1991 | 955,669 | +1.26% |
2001 | 1,030,546 | +0.76% |
2011 | 1,082,636 | +0.49% |
source:[6] |
According to the
At the time of the 2011 census, 83.49% of the population spoke Kannada, 10.51% Urdu, 2.21% Telugu, 1.32% Lambadi and 1.08% Tamil as their first language.[11]
Villages
Economy
- Ramanagara is famous for its silk market, one of the biggest in Asia, giving it the other name of Silk City, It is also called as Cosmopolitan Cocoon Market because of the people from different states participates in cocoon transaction here. On an average, 35 Metric tons of cocoons are being transacted daily in this market.
- In Ramanagara, there are 600 cottage basins (improved), 85 multi-end reeling units and 04 Automatic Reeling Unit of 400 Ends capacities. There are also about 95 Twisting units functioning at this place.
- Ramanagara district includes the Bidadi Industrial Area and Harohalli Industrial Area the first Industrial Areas in the state, which houses the manufacturing units of Toyota, Coca-Cola, and a 1400 MW combined cycle gas-based power plant.
References
- ^ "Ramanagar district will be made the best: Kumaraswamy". The Hindu. 24 August 2007. Archived from the original on 24 October 2008. Retrieved 6 August 2010.
- ^ A Passage to India - locations Accessed December 2006
- ^ Subramanya, S. and Naveein, O. C. 2006. Breeding of Long-billed Vulture Gyps indicus at Ramanagara hills, Karnataka, India. Indian Birds 2(2):32 Full text Archived 28 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Declare Handigundi forest area as sloth-bear sanctuary". Archived from the original on 19 April 2007. Retrieved 26 November 2007.
- ^ Atomic minerals directorate Archived 25 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Decadal Variation In Population Since 1901
- ^ "Table C-01 Population by Religion: Karnataka". censusindia.gov.in. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f "District Census Handbook: Ramanagara" (PDF). censusindia.gov.in. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. 2011.
- ^ US Directorate of Intelligence. "Country Comparison:Population". Archived from the original on 13 June 2007. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
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- ^ "2010 Resident Population Data". U. S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 30 September 2011.
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- ^ a b "Table C-16 Population by Mother Tongue: Karnataka". www.censusindia.gov.in. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.