Yadgir district is one of the 30 districts of Karnataka

Karnataka

Karnataka , the land of the Kannadigas, is a state in South West India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act and this day is annually celebrated as Karnataka Rajyotsava...

 state in southern India

India

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. This district was carved out from the erstwhile Gulbarga district

Gulbarga District

Gulbarga district is one of the 30 districts of Karnataka state in southern India. Gulbarga city is the administrative headquarters of the district...

 as the 30th district of Karnataka on 10 April 2010. Yadgir

Yadgir

Yadgir is a town and the administrative headquarters of the newly created Yadagiri district in the Indian state of Karnataka. On 10 April 2010, it was officially declared as 30th district of Karnataka State. It is also the administrative headquarters of Yadgir taluk, one of the three taluks of the...

 town is the administrative headquarters of the district. The district occupies an area of 5,160.88 km².

Divisions

Presently, the district comprises three taluks: Shahpur, Surpur

Shorapur

Shorapur is a town in Yadgir district in the Indian state of Karnataka.-Demographics: India census, Shorapur had a population of 43,591. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Shorapur has an average literacy rate of 55%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is...

 and Yadgir. The district has 16 hoblies, 117 Gram Panchayets, 519 villages (inhabited & uninhabited) and four municipalities.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census

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 Yadgir district has a population

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 of 1,172,985, roughly equal to the nation of Timor-Leste or the US state of Rhode Island

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. This gives it a ranking of 404th in India (out of a total of 640

Districts of India

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). The district has a population density of 224 PD/sqkm . Its population growth rate

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 over the decade 2001-2011 was 22.67 %. Yadgir has a sex ratio

Sex ratio

Sex ratio is the ratio of males to females in a population. The primary sex ratio is the ratio at the time of conception, secondary sex ratio is the ratio at time of birth, and tertiary sex ratio is the ratio of mature organisms....

 of 984 females

Women in India

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 for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate

Literacy in India

Literacy in India is key for socio-economic progress, and the Indian literacy rate grew to 74.04% in 2011 from 12% at the end of British rule in 1947. Although this was a greater than sixfold improvement, the level is well below the world average literacy rate of 84%, and India currently has the...

of 52.36 %.

Education

It has 1,024 primary schools, 149 high schools, 40 Pre-University colleges, six degree colleges, and 1 polytechnic institute.

Major institutions are:
1.Chiranjeevi Methodist High School (Eng & Kan medium)
2-Mahatma Gandhi High School & PU Science College
3-Dhoka Jain High School
4-Don Bosco School & College
5-Jawar Education Society
6-R.V. Education Trust
7-New Kannada Higher Primary School & College
8-Sri Chennareddy Patil PU College
9-Chiranjeevi Methodist Composite PU College
10-Governament Degree Colleg
11-Nivedita Education Society
12-Govt.Junior college.
13.Yadgir polytechnic (Managed by luqman trust, Gulbarga)
14-M.R.M High School

Medical facilities

The district has three hospitals, three ayurvedic hospitals, 37 public health centres, six community health centers, 20 dispensaries and 120 family welfare sub-centers.