Chincholi is a

panchayat town A nagar panchayat () or 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 12,00 ...

and a

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

Kalaburagi district Kalaburagi district, formerly known as Gulbarga district, is one of the 31 districts of Karnataka state in southern India. Kalaburagi city is the administrative headquarters of the district. The district is the headquarters of Kalaburagi divi ...

in the state of

Karnataka Karnataka ( ) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed as Mysore State on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, States Re ...

, India.

Geography

Chincholi is located at . It has an average elevation of . The town is spread over an area of .The area of major towns in Karnataka has been mentioned in the webpag
Population of Corporation/CMC/TMC/TP
belonging to the Municipal Administration Department of the Government of

Demographics

India

census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

, Chincholi had a population of 20,897 with males numbering 10,852 and females 10,045. Chincholi Taluka borders the following talukas of

Gulbarga Kalaburagi, formerly known as Gulbarga, is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka, It is headquarters of eponymous Kalaburagi district and Kalaburagi division, Kalaburagi city is governed by a Municipal Corporation, It is called a Sufi c ...

Taluka to the west,

Chitapur Chitapur or Chittapur is a town and taluk in Kalaburagi district in the state of Karnataka, India. It is also the headquarters of the Chittapur taluk. It is known for polished stones and toor dal. Geography Chitapur is located at . It is situ ...

taluka to the south-west and Sedam Taluka to the south. It also borders Chittaguppa Taluk of

Bidar district Bidar district is the northernmost part of the Karnataka state in India. The administrative headquarters of district is Bidar, Bidar city. Geographically, it known as the "Crown of the State", occupying its northeastern end. It is bounded by Ka ...

to the north and Tandur Mandal of Vikarabad district of

Telangana Telangana is a States and union territories of India, state in India situated in the Southern India, south-central part of the Indian subcontinent on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, ele ...

to the east and Mogudampally mandal of Sangareddy district of

to northeast.

Politics

Chincholi is part of Chincholi Assembly constituency and Bidar (Lok Sabha constituency). Two time chief minister of Karnataka

Veerendra Patil Veerendra Basappa Patil (Kannada: ವೀರೇಂದ್ರ ಪಾಟೀಲ್; 28 February 1924 – 14 March 1997) was a senior Indian politician and was twice, the Chief Minister of Karnataka. He became Chief Minister for the first time fr ...

was from this taluka. Villages in Chincholi Taluk

Tourist places

*Sukshetra Buggi *Chandrapalli reservoir *Etti Potta Falls *Nagaral reservoir and Gottamgotta *Chincholi Wildlife Sanctuary

Transport

KSRTC provides bus travel within Karnataka and the nearby states of Maharastra and Telangana. The nearest railway stations are Sedam railway station () and Tandur railway station (). The nearest international airport is

Rajiv Gandhi International Airport Rajiv Gandhi International Airport is an international airport that serves Hyderabad, the capital of the Indian state of Telangana. It is located in Shamshabad, about south of Hyderabad and it was opened on 23 March 2008 to replace Begumpet ...

(), whilst the nearest domestic airport is Gulbarga Airport (). Another nearby domestic airport is Bidar Airport ()

References

{{Gulbarga topics Cities and towns in Kalaburagi district Taluks in Kalaburagi district