Wandal is a village in the southern state of

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Overview

Wandal is a village and has population of approximately 8,000 (in the year 2011). People speak Kannada, Hindi and English languages fluently. 80% of the people in the village are educated. Each house in the village has at least one teacher or doctors or engineers are common in Wandal village.Village code= 599487 Wandal, Bijapur, Karnataka It is located in the

Nidagundi Nidagundi is a village in the southern state of Karnataka, India.Village code= 28400 It is located in the Nidagundi taluk of Vijayapur district in Karnataka. Demographics At the 2001 India census, Nidagundi had a population of 5788 with 298 ...

taluk A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

of Bijapur district in Karnataka. It was once recorded that village was having highest number of teachers in Bijapur district.

History

The village name came from

banyan tree A banyan, also spelled "banian", is a fig that develops accessory trunks from adventitious prop roots, allowing the tree to spread outwards indefinitely. This distinguishes banyans from other trees with a strangler habit that begin life as a ...

(in Kannada banyan tree means alada mara). In ancient days, people of the village used to gather under big banyan tree and have fun and other activities like village fest. So later, village name became Wandal (meaning one banyan tree).

Demographics

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 ...

, Wandal had a population of 6,730 with 2,882 males and 2,848 females. Wandal is in Nidagundi Taluka. The village is situated along Bijapur–Bangalore National Highway No.50 at a distance of from Bijapur, and distance from the state capital of

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 ...

Culture

Includes genuine North Karnataka style art. Men wear dhothra, Nehru shirt and silk rumalu (Pakata). Women wear

Ilkal saree Ilkal sari is a traditional form of ''sari'' which is a common feminine wear in India. Ilkal sari takes its name from the town of Ilkal in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka state, India. Ilkal saris are woven using cotton warp on the body ...

and Khadi clothes in previous decades now it is all modern style brought it up from cities to village.

Cuisine

In the village,

wheat Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain that is a worldwide staple food. The many species of wheat together make up the genus ''Triticum'' ; the most widely grown is common wheat (''T. aestivum''). The archaeologi ...

and

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 ...

rottis (unleavened bread made with millet) are popular. The following are typical items in a vegetarian meal: * Rotti/

Bhakri Bhakri () is a round flatbread (roti) often used in the cuisine of the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and Karnataka in India. The bhakri prepared using jowar or bajra is coarser than a regular wheat chapati. Bhakri can be either soft ...

Rice Rice is the seed of the grass species ''Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice) or less commonly ''Oryza glaberrima ''Oryza glaberrima'', commonly known as African rice, is one of the two domesticated rice species. It was first domesticated and grown i ...

, Saaru, Happala and Kosambari * Shenga/ Ellu – Dry chutney in powder form, sometimes called ''Hindi (chutney)

Temples

The village has several temples * Shree Banashankari Temple- The Village Goddess * Shree Durga Devi Temple * Shree Mallikarjuna Temple * Shree Basaveshwara Temple * Shree Venkateswara Temple * Shree Hanuman Temple * Shree Beeralingeshwara Temple * Shree Lakshmi Devi Temple

Education

In 2011, literacy rate of Wandal village is 75.36% of Karnataka. In Wandal, male literacy stands at 86.67% while female literacy rate was 63.76%. College/schools near Wandal: *Shree Shakhambari High School *KBHPS Wandal *Lower primary Urdu school *Bhagyavanti Lower Primary School

Transportation

Trains to Wandal: *Golgumbaz Express *Basava Express *Dharwad -Solapur passenger

References

External links

* *https://www.studyapt.com/school-unaided-bhagyavanti-lps-wandal-bijapur-ka {{Settlements in Bijapur district Cities and towns in Bijapur district, Karnataka