Bargur is a selection-grade
town panchayat
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 ...
in the
Krishnagiri district
Krishnagiri district is one of the 38 districts (a district in the north western part) of the state of Tamil Nadu, in India. This district is carved out from Dharmapuri District by 2004. The municipal town of Krishnagiri is the district hea ...
of the
India
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n state of
Tamil Nadu
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, that serves as the headquarters of
Bargur taluk, one of the seven taluks in Krishnagiri district.
History
The town panchayat of Bargur was created on 1 November 1969 and was upgraded to a selection grade town panchayat on 14 February 1985.
Geography
Bargur is spread over an area of of land in the northeast of Krishnagiri district, at , at an average elevation of above sea level. It is about east of
Krishnagiri along
National Highway 48, which runs through the town.
State Highway 131 begins in Bargur and runs southeast to
Tirupattur.
Demographics
As of 2011, there were 3,760 households in Bargur, which had a total population of 16,366 people. 8,316 (50.8%) of the population were male, while 8,050 (50.2%) were female. 1,810 children, about 11.1% of the town's population, were at or below the age of 6. 1,939 people in the town, about 11.8% of the population, were classified as
Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes. 70.9% of the population were literate.
The official language of Bargur is
Tamil, although
Kannada
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and
Telugu
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* 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 also spoken, with Telugu speakers making up the plurality of the town's population as of 2001. In 2001, there were 6,621 Telugu speakers, 5,209 Tamil speakers, and 2,250 Kannada speakers in the town.
Politics
Bargur is part of
Bargur state assembly constituency, represented by D. Mathiyalagan of the
DMK party. Bargur is part of
Krishnagiri Lok Sabha constituency, which is represented in by
A. Chellakumar of the
Indian National Congress
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.
References
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Cities and towns in Krishnagiri district