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Kanakapura

Kanakapura is a town and the headquarters of Kanakapura Taluk in the Ramanagara district in the state of Karnataka, India. Situated near the city of Bengaluru, this town is famous for the production of silk and granite.Taluk

There are 43 village panchayats in the taluk. A major industry is mining of granite in quarries. Other activities include silk production, powerlooms, brick production, bamboo production pottery and other rural industries. Agriculture is the main source of income for people . The Bee keeping industry has covered 38 villages and there are 150 bee keepers who maintain 300 bee colonies. The State Government is providing training facilities to rural people to encourage bee keeping in rural area.

The taluk has geographical area of 1,59,426 hectares consisting of 6 hoblis, namely:

a) Kasaba b) Harohalli c) Maralawadi d) Kodihalli e) Sathanur f) Uyyamballi

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  • kurupete, Naveen kumar (guest) wrote 6 years ago:
    Its my native....kanakapura taluk 562117..the population if kurupete is 5000
  • St. Michael's English School, Roshan (guest) wrote 7 years ago:
    Thank's for sharing the number
  • Blossom School, Puneeth (guest) wrote 9 years ago:
    Fine school
  • Sri S Kariyappa's Statue, pushpa (guest) wrote 9 years ago:
    super, actually i am not from rural college, from last 4 years i am staying in kanakapura. i felt very happy when i saw this wikipidia but it should we have more content about sir S kariyappaji so why don't we build the site properly. if you need my help for site construction you can call me on this no 8150054481
  • St. Michael's English School, Ganesh Prasad Gowda wrote 9 years ago:
    I DID MY HIGH SCHOOL EDUCTION IN THIS SCHOOL TILL 10TH STD. 2005-2006 BATCH
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