Aurad is a town and municipal council in the

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Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a state in the southwestern region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as Mysore State , it was renamed ''Karnat ...

. It passes through the National Highway 161A.

Geography

Aurad is located at . It has an average elevation of . Aurad is from Bengaluru and from District Headquarters Bidar. The area of Aurad is 1,227.20 km² having 6 circles, 149 villages and 177 thandas. It is located above sea level. Aurad taluka is one of the five talukas of the Bidar District. It is bounded by Maharashtra on the North-west, Bhalki taluka on the south and

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in the east. This is the largest taluka in the district.

River

Manjra is the tributary of Godavari, which enters into Aurad at Horandi and flows as taluka boundary through Sonal, Kalgapur, Hulsur, Khed, Halalli, Nidoda, Nittur, Babli, Bachepalli. Ladha, Koutha(B), Khanapur and at the end it leaves Aurad at Kandgul village.

Climate

The climate is generally dry and healthy. The average rainfall of the taluka is 840 mm. Average number of rainy days are about 51 days. Though the climate is dry throughout the year, summer months become very hot and the temperature goes as high as 40-43-degree Celsius. The minimum temperature during winter goes as low as 15-10-degree Celsius.

Demographics

As of

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, Aurad town panchayat had a total population of 19,849, of which 10,058 were males and 9,791 were females. Population within the age group of 0 to 6 years was 2,769. The total number of literates in Aurad was 12,226, which constituted 61.6% of the population with male literacy of 68.7% and female literacy of 54.3%. The effective literacy rate of 7+ population of Aurad was 71.6%, of which male literacy rate was 79.8% and female literacy rate was 63.2%. The

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population was 6,066 and 1,207 respectively. Aurad had 3810 households in 2011. Aurad suburb had a population of 4,108, of which 2,056 were males and 2,052 were females, with 494 under the age of seven.

Places of interest

*Sri Amareshwar Temple.

Notable people

* Bhagwanth Khuba, serving Member of Parliament of the Bidar Lok Sabha constituency since 2014. *

Narsingrao Suryawanshi Narsingrao Hullaji Suryawanshi (born January 20, 1952) is an Indian senior statesman who served as Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from Bidar four times. He belongs to the Indian National Congress party. Early life Narsingrao Suryawans ...

, former Member of Parliament from Bidar. * Vaijnath Patil, member of the

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Prabhu Chauhan Prabhu Bamala Chauhan (born 6 July 1969) is an Indian politician who is the current Minister of State for Animal Husbandry Department of Karnataka from 20 August 2019 in B.S.Yediyurappa cabinet. Later he has also sworn in as cabinet minister on ...

, serving Minister of Animal Husbandry and Fisheries and Minority Welfare in Government of Karnataka since 2019

References

{{Bidar topics Cities and towns in Bidar district Western Chalukya Empire Chalukya dynasty