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20-707: Hiriyuru is a city and a taluk headquarter located in Chitradurga district in the Indian state of Karnataka . Hiriyuru is renowned for having the oldest dam in Karnataka , built on the Vedavathi River , and named Mari Kanive . Hiriyur is situated along National Highway 48 . Hiriyur is located 160 km north-west of Bengaluru . All the buses from Bengaluru going towards Hubballi , Belgavi , Davanagere , Ballari travel through Hiriyur. The climate

40-449: A designated place within tehsil area known as tehsil headquarters. Tehsildar is the incharge of tehsil office. This is similar to district office or district collector at district level. Throughout India, there is a three-tier local body/Panchayat system within the state. At the top is the zila/zilla panchayat (parishad). Taluka/mandal panchayat/panchayat samiti/community development block is the second layer of this system and below them are

60-446: A newer unit called mandal (circle) has come to replace the tehsil system. It is generally smaller than a tehsil, and is meant for facilitating local self-government in the panchayat system . In West Bengal , Bihar, Jharkhand, community development blocks are the empowered grassroots administrative unit, replacing tehsils. Tehsil office is primarily tasked with land revenue administration, besides election and executive functions. It

80-512: Is 88.48%, and female literacy is 78.85%. In Hiriyur, 10.44% of the population is under 6 years of age. This place lies on NH-48 , the Mumbai-Bangalore National Highway, and is a central place for most commuters travelling to southern and central parts of India via Karnataka . Several villages around Hiriyur like Adivala, have been major producers of coconuts. Taluk In Andhra Pradesh and Telangana ,

100-480: Is administratively divided into 13 tehsils and 15 revenue blocks. Nevertheless, the two are often conflated. India, as a vast country, is subdivided into many states and union territories for administrative purposes. Further divisions of these states are known as districts . These districts (zila/zilla) are again divided into many subdivisions , viz tehsils or taluks. These subdivisions are again divided into gram panchayats or village panchayats. Initially, this

120-611: Is also called as "Dakshina Kashi" by the devotees. It is believed that the famous devotee of Lord Shiva, "Hema Reddy Mallamma", was a resident of this town. Every year she travelled to Varanasi by foot. As she grew older and weaker, one day she prayed to her lord that "O lord I have become old and weak, unable to visit Varanasi and have your darshan, what do I do". On the night of that day Lord Shiva appeared in her dream and told her that she need not come to Varanasi to see him, he himself will come and reside in Hiriyur. As promised, Lord Shiva

140-562: Is generally dry with low rain fall. During winter (November - February), the night temperature may come down to 18 degrees C. Hiriyur is famous as a centre for regional (rural) markets. The 'santhe' attracts people from all over the district. It is also famous for the Mari Kanive (Vani Vilaasa Sagara), which is an architectural masterpiece constructed during the rule of the Mysore Wodeyars . The Mari Kanive irrigation project

160-594: Is the sub-district of a district, similarly, Nayabat is the sub-tehsil of a tehsil. List of mandals in Andhra Pradesh A mandalam is a local government area in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana . The mandal system was introduced as an administrative reform to make governance more efficient by reducing the size of the larger, previously existing taluks. The decentralization aimed at improving revenue administration, record-keeping, and enhancing

180-454: Is the ultimate executive agency for land records and related administrative matters. The chief official is called the tehsildar or, less officially, the talukdar or taluka muktiarkar . Tehsil or taluk can be considered sub-districts in the Indian context. In some instances, tehsils overlap with " blocks " (panchayat union blocks or panchayat development blocks or cd blocks) and come under

200-558: The National Geological Monuments of India by the Geological Survey of India (GSI), for their protection, maintenance, promotion and enhancement of Geotourism . According to 2011 Census of India , Hiriyur had a population of 56,416. Males constitute 49.85% of the population and females 50.15%. Hiriyur has an average literacy rate of 83.63%, higher than the national average of 74.04%: male literacy

220-442: The district , also sometimes translated as county . In neither case is the analogy very exact. Tehsildar is the chief or key government officer of each tehsil or taluka. In some states different nomenclature like talukdar, mamledar, amaldar, mandal officer is used. In many states of India, the tehsildar functions as the executive magistrate of that tehsil. Each tehsil will have an office called tehsil office or tehsildar office at

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240-505: The bridge resemble human eye, and there are seventy eyes. Hiriyur is located at 13°57′N 76°37′E  /  13.95°N 76.62°E  / 13.95; 76.62 . It has an average elevation of 630 metres (2066 feet). The months of March and April are the hottest months of the year. The Vedavati River is dammed here to meet the water needs of the otherwise mostly dry district of Chitradurga . Pillow lava rocks at Mardihalli village near Hiriyur has been declared as

260-443: The gram panchayats or village panchayats. These panchayats at all three levels have elected members from eligible voters of particular subdivisions. These elected members form the bodies which help the administration in policy-making, development works, and bringing grievances of the common public to the notice of the administration. Nayabat is the lower part of tehsil which have some powers like tehsil. It can be understood as tehsil

280-515: The land and revenue department, headed by the tehsildar; and blocks come under the rural development department, headed by the block development officer and serve different government administrative functions over the same or similar geographical area. Although they may on occasion share the same area with a subdivision of a revenue division, known as revenue blocks , the two are distinct. For example, Raipur district in Chhattisgarh state

300-639: The reach of the panchayati raj system. As part of the middle tier of the panchayati raj structure, mandals replaced the former panchayat samitis in Andhra Pradesh during the tenure of the Telugu Desam Party government led by N. T. Rama Rao on May 25, 1985. The reform was inspired by the recommendations of the Ashok Mehta Committee . The expectation was that the division of large taluks into smaller mandals would lead to more manageable administrative units and allow closer oversight of

320-552: The term tehsil is commonly used in all northern states . In Maharashtra , Gujarat , Goa , Karnataka , Kerala and Tamil Nadu , taluka or taluk is more common. In Eastern India , instead of tehsils, the term Subdivision is used in Bihar , Assam , Jharkhand and West Bengal , as well as large parts of Northeast India ( Manipur , Meghalaya , Mizoram , Sikkim and Tripura ). In Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland , they are called circle . Tehsil/tahsil and taluk/taluka and

340-488: The variants are used as English words without further translation. Since these terms are unfamiliar to English speakers outside the subcontinent , the word county has sometimes been provided as a gloss , on the basis that a tehsil, like a county, is an administrative unit hierarchically above the local city, town, or village, but subordinate to a larger state or province. India and Pakistan have an intermediate level of hierarchy (or more than one, at least in parts of India):

360-400: Was believed to have incarnated in the "oraLukallu" (a stone of cylindrical shape used in the households of ancient India for grinding purpose). That stone which was worshipped by Mallamma later became known as Terumalleshwara. The ancient name of Hiriyur was "Ghanapuri". The "Yeppattu Kannina Setuve" ("the seventy eyed bridge") located near Hiriyur is noted for its architecture. The patterns in

380-402: Was done for collecting land revenue and administration purposes. But now these subdivisions are governed in tandem with other departments of government like education, agriculture, irrigation, health, police, etc. The different departments of state government generally have offices at tehsil or taluk level to facilitate good governance and to provide facilities to common people easily. In India,

400-538: Was initiated by Sir. Mark Cubbon , the British Resident of Mysore . C N Malige is one of the villages of Hiriyur taluk and it is situated between Hulithotlu and Adiralu villages. Sub office to this village is Aimangala. The National Highway 4 which passes through Hiriyur has for decades created a cluster of business catering to the commuters. Hiriyur is also famous for its 500+ years old temple of Shiva . Famously known as Teru Malleshvara Temple, Hiriyur it

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