Chikkapadasalgi
Village in Karnataka, India
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Chikkapadasalgi is a village in Jamkhandi taluka, Bagalkot district, Karnataka, India.[1] It is managed by the Chikka-Padasalgi Gram Panchayat, a rural local body within the Jamkhandi Panchayat Samiti, which is part of the Bagalkot Zila Parishad. It governs two villages and is further divided into 18 wards.[2]
Geography
Administration
Population
As of the 2011 Census, Chikkapadasalgi has a population of 4,150 people. This includes 2,096 males and 2,054 females. The village has 810 households.[3]
Chikkapadasalgi dam
The village is also known for the Shrama Bindu Sagar Dam, popularly known as the Chikkapadasalgi dam,[4] which was constructed in 1989 across the Krishna River near Jamkhandi town. The dam was built entirely by local farmers under the leadership of Siddu Nyamagouda, a local leader who later became a Union Minister.[5][6] The dam has a storage capacity of 4.3 TMC (thousand million cubic feet) of water and provides irrigation to about 70,000 acres of agricultural land in the region.[7][8]