Tekkalakote, also known as Tekkalkota is a

Panchayat town A nagar panchayat (town panchayat; ) or Notified Area Council (NAC) in India is a settlement in transition from rural to urban and therefore a form of an urban political unit comparable to a municipality. An urban centre with more than 12,000 ...

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Pre-historic Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use of ...

Neolithic The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts ...

site in

Siruguppa Siruguppa is a town and headquarters of the Siruguppa taluk and second largest city in Ballari district after Hospete carved out of Ballari district of Indian state of Karnataka. Etymology The name Siruguppa is derived from two Kannada words ' ...

taluk of

Ballari district Bellary, officially known as Ballari (pronounced ), is a major district in Karnataka. It is located at north-eastern part of Karnataka. This district belongs to Kalyana-Karnataka. This district was one of the biggest districts in Karnataka unt ...

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 ...

Demography

India

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...

, Tekkalakote had a population of 23,536. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Tekkalakote has an average literacy rate of 30%, lower than the national average of 59.5%. Literacy of males and females are 41% and 25% respectively. The town's literacy percentage is increasing gradually.

Agriculture

Tekkalakote is one of the major paddy-growing towns in the district of Ballari. It also has three rice mills. Major crops grown here are paddy and

cotton Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus ''Gossypium'' in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose, and can contain minor perce ...

, while Navane,

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, bajra,

jowar ''Sorghum bicolor'', commonly called sorghum () and also known as great millet, broomcorn, guinea corn, durra, imphee, jowar, or milo, is a grass species cultivated for its grain, which is used for food for humans, animal feed, and ethanol produc ...

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maize Maize ( ; ''Zea mays'' subsp. ''mays'', from es, maíz after tnq, mahiz), also known as corn (North American and Australian English), is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago. Th ...

are grown as minor crops. Agriculture lands are irrigated and rain-fed.

Importance

Tekkalakote is a pre-historic neolithic site and has shown an evidence of elaborate gold ear ornaments. Tekkalakote hill has evidence of pre-historic(Neolithic) rock paintings in India along with Kupgal,

Piklihal Piklihal is a village near Mudgal in the Lingasugur taluk of Raichur district in Karnataka state, India. Piklihal is a neolithic period site. The site was excavated by F. Raymond Allchin in 1952. Piklihal is 6 km south to Mudgal town. The N ...

, Lakhudiyar,

Bhimbetka The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site in central India that spans the Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods, as well as the historic period. It exhibits the earliest traces of human life in India and evidence of Stone Age starting ...

, &

Jogimara Jogimara was a village development committee in Dhading District in the Bagmati Zone of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 5080 and had 927 houses in it. On March 10, 2017, the Government of Nepal restruct ...

.Various relics of Neolithic age rock drawings also found here. Tekkalakote is also known for the 18th century square-shaped fort. Nittur village, which is known for the minor edict of the mauryan emperor Ashoka, is located 5 km from this town. The town holds the most populated and commercial status in its Siruguppa taluk.

Transport

Tekkalakote is located in between Ballari and Siruguppa. It is 45 km away from Ballari and 11 km from Siruguppa. Tekkalakote lies on NH150A which runs between Jevargi and Chamarajanagara. The town is well connected by road to

Bangalore Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...

Gulbarga Kalaburagi, formerly known as Gulbarga, is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is the administrative headquarters of the Kalaburagi district and is the largest city in the region of North Karnataka (Kalyana-Karnataka). Kalaburagi is 6 ...

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, and other major cities. The nearest airport is in Vidyanagar, Ballari, currently which connects to Bengaluru and Hyderabad.

Long-distance bus routes

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(KSRTC) runs bus services to other cities and villages. Private transport facilities are also available.

Railways

Bellary Bellary, officially Ballari, in the eponymous Bellary district, is a city in the state of Karnataka, India. History Bellary was a part of Rayalaseema (Ceded Districts) which was part of Madras Presidency till 1 November 1956. The Ball ...

Junction is the nearest railway station, at a distance of 45 km from this town.

Languages

Kannada Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...

, and

Telugu Telugu may refer to: * Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India *Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India * Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language ** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode S ...

are the common languages known to the people.

Temples

Tekkalakote is one of the famous religious hub in

taluk. It has many old temples and are of hundreds of years old. These are some of the famous

Temples A temple (from the Latin ) is a building reserved for spiritual rituals and activities such as prayer and sacrifice. Religions which erect temples include Christianity (whose temples are typically called churches), Hinduism (whose temples ...

( Devasthana) in Tekkalakote. Varavina Malleshwar Devasthana (Popularly known as Mallayyana Gudi) Kadasiddeshwara Devasthana Nela Amareshwara Devasthana Jade Shankara linga Devasthana Nagareshwara Devasthana Neelakanteshwara Devasthana Siddarameshwara Devasthana Kaalamma Devasthana Dyavamma Devasthana Pete Basaveswara Gudi Sharana Basaveswhwara Kalyana Mantapa' 'Beeralingeshwar temple' ' Kote Eshwara Temple ' ' Huchirappa Temple '

Hospitals

Tekkalakota has a government hospital on the main highway road. Town also has many private doctors and medical stores. Tekkalakota is also famous for the Ayurvedic treatment practiced by some of the doctors. Some Ayurvedic doctors are providing the treatment based on the experience in this field which they got from their parents and forefathers.

Political Parties

Major Political parties are

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(BJP),

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(Congress) and

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References

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Demography

Agriculture

Importance

Transport

Long-distance bus routes

Railways

Languages

Temples

Hospitals

Political Parties

See also

References