Maladkal

Maladkal boundary mapped by KGIS

Maladkal ಮಲದಕಲ್ Maladakal,Mandkal,ಮಂದಕಲ್
village
Maladkal
Anthem: Jaya Bharata Jananiya Tanujate, Jana Gana Mana
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Coordinates: 16°16′45.12″N77°6′13.62″E / 16.2792000°N 77.1037833°E / 16.2792000; 77.1037833
Country	India
State	Karnataka
District	Raichur
Taluk	Devadurga
Seat	Sarpanch
Government
• Body	Gram panchayat
Area
• Total	2,777.802 ha (6,864.071 acres)
Highest elevation (Paramananda hill)	450 m (1,480 ft)
Population  (2011)
• Total	2,819
Demonym	Kannadigas
Language
• Official	Kannada
Time zone	UTC+05:30 (IST)
PIN	584113
Area code	08532
Geocode	16.27665113566765, 77.10435483175563
Vehicle registration	KA 36

Maladkal is a village in Karnataka state, comes under Raichur District, Devadurga Taluk and Gabbur hobli. Maladkal lies in northern part of Karnataka(Kalyana Karnataka Division). Maladkal shares its boundary with Gabbur, Ramadurga, Jagatakal, N Ganekal, Maseedpur and Atnur (Manvi taluk). ^[1] Maladakal is one of the Gram Panchayat ^[2] in Raichur District.

The village majorly consists of hardworking farmers as most families are agriculture oriented ^[3] and others hold their personal businesses. Crops produced in this village are cotton, chilli and rice but, some people also grow vegetables for their livelihood. Maladkal is a self sustained village as most of villages in India, the villagers are mostly interdependent for their livelihood. ^[4]

After, the completion of Basava Sagara dam (Narayanpura dam) irrigation project the villagers also switched to irrigation farming from dryland farming. Before irrigation farmers used to grow jowar, wheat, millet, sunflower and other dryland crops. ^{[5] [6]}

History

As the village lies in part of Raichur Doab has diverse history and culture. The village is considered to be a neolithic site as some of rock arts were found on the hill. This indicates strong cultural influences to pre-modern era. ^[7]

Demographics

As of 2011 census Maladkal had a population of 2819 among which 1375 were male and 1444 female. ^[8] 2001 census indicates total population of 2330 among which 1160 were male and 1172 female. ^[9]

Transport

The village connects to state highway (SH15) from a well maintained road constructed under Gram Sadak Yojana. ^[10] There are two buses provided by Kalyana Karnataka Road Transport Corporation (previously known as KSRTC) a government run road transport. The two buses connect to Raichur(District) and Devadurga(Tehsil). Nearby Railway station is Raichur railway station which can be reached by bus.

Bus Route

By road Raichur District is about 40km. There are total of four stops on the way (Maladkal-Gabbur-Sulthanpur-Murhanpur-Kalmala-Raichur). Tahsil Devadurga is about 30km. ^[11]

Travel timings of Raichur Bus

Depart Raichur	Arrival	Departure	At Raichur
-	Halt	06:00 AM	07:00 AM
08:15 AM	09:00 AM	09:05 AM	10:00 AM
01:15 PM	02:00 PM	02:05 PM	03:00 PM
04:15 PM	05:00 PM	05:05 PM	06:00 PM
07:15 PM	08:00 PM	Halt	-

See also

• Devadurga, India
• Districts of Karnataka
• Gabbur
• List of taluks of Karnataka
• Raichur district
• Shivaraj Patil

References

1. "map of maladkal". google maps. google LLC.
2. "Gram Panchayat of Maladkal". panchatantra.kar.nic.in.
3. "Raichur District agriculture profile". e-krishiuasb.karnataka.gov.in.
4. Agro-climatic zones of Raichur (PDF). p. 38.
5. "weather". accuweather.com.
6. Lok Sabha, India. Parliament (1989). Lok Sabha Debates. p. 98.
7. R, Arjun (2016). "Situating Maladkal within the Rock Bruisings of Neolithic Residual hill Settlements of Raichur Doab, Karnataka". ResearchGate.
8. "population of Maladkal". census.gov.in. Government of India.
9. "population of Maladkal 2001 census". census.gov.in.
10. "Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana". omms.nic.in.
11. "Maladkal bus stop". kkrtc.karnataka.gov.in.