Naikal is a village in the southern 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.
[Village code= 377400 ][ Naikal, Gulbarga, Karnataka ] It lies at the foot of a rocky hill called Parmanan,
along the Yadgir-Shahapur Road (State Highway 15 (Karnataka)). Administratively, it is under
Wadgera Taluk of
Yadgir district
Yadgir District is one of the List of districts of Karnataka, 31 districts of Karnataka state in southern India.This district was carved out of Kalaburagi district as the 30th district of Karnataka on 10 April 2010. Yadgir town is the administr ...
in Karnataka. The Naikal Hill Station, #17 of the Great Arc Meridional Survey, was located just east of the village on another rocky hill called Gúrbasapa.
Naikal lies along the path of the proposed
Surat-Chennai Expressway, and over forty hectares of Naikal's irrigated land was condemned by
eminent domain
Eminent domain, also known as land acquisition, compulsory purchase, resumption, resumption/compulsory acquisition, or expropriation, is the compulsory acquisition of private property for public use. It does not include the power to take and t ...
in 2020 for the project.
KBN Agro Industries operates a cotton gin in Naikal, and Sugureshwar Mineral Water operates a bottling plant there.
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 ...
, Naikal had a population of 6,050 with 3,010 males and 3,040 females.
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Villages in Yadgir district