List of districts of Karnataka

{{short description|Districts in the state of Karnataka in India}}

The southern Indian state of Karnataka consists of 31 districts grouped into 4 administrative divisions, viz., Belagavi, [[Bengaluru division|Bengaluru

]], Gulbarga, and Mysore. Geographically, the state has three principal variants: the western coastal stretch, the hilly belt comprising the Western Ghats, and the plains, comprising the plains of the Deccan plateau.

File:India Karnataka location map.png

History

File:Karnataka 1956 Reorg.svg that was created during States Reorganisation of 1956.]]

Karnataka took its present shape in 1956, when the former states of Mysore and Coorg were unified into a linguistically homogenous Kannada-speaking state along with agglomeration of districts of the former states of Bombay, Hyderabad, and Madras as part of the States Reorganisation Act of 1956. The unified Mysore State was made up of ten districts, viz., Bangalore, Kolar, Tumkur, Mandya, Mysore, Hassan, Chikkamagalur, Shimoga, Chitradurga, and Ballari which had been transferred from Madras Presidency to Mysore State earlier in 1953, when the new state of Andhra Pradesh was created out of Madras' northern districts.{{cite news|title=Petition against transfer of Bellary dismissed|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TgJFAAAAIBAJ&dq=bellary%20district%20madras&pg=6922%2C6087026|access-date=17 December 2010|newspaper=Indian Express|date=30 September 1953}} Coorg State became Kodagu district,{{cite news|last=Chinnappa|first=Jeevan |title=Did reorganisation panel ignore Kodava leaders' plea?|url=http://www.hindu.com/2005/11/15/stories/2005111510700300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061212010817/http://www.hindu.com/2005/11/15/stories/2005111510700300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 December 2006|access-date=17 December 2010|newspaper=The Hindu|date=15 November 2005}} South Canara was transferred from Madras State, North Canara, Dharwad, Belgaum, and Bijapur from Bombay State. Bidar, Gulbarga, and Raichur from Hyderabad State. The state received its new name of Karnataka in the year 1973.

= Formations of districts =

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|+Chronology of formation of new districts

!Date

!New district

!Formerly part of

!Administration

rowspan="2" |15 August 1986

|Bengaluru Urban

| rowspan="2" |Bengaluru

| rowspan="2" |Ramakrishna Hegde's ministry

Bengaluru Rural

rowspan="6" |25 August 1997

|Chamarajanagara

|Mysuru

| rowspan="6" |J. H. Patel's ministry

Davanagere

|Chitradurga, Ballari and Shivamogga

rowspan="2" |21 June 2007

|Ramanagara

|Bengaluru Rural

| rowspan="2" |H.D. Kumaraswamy's ministry{{cite news |date=6 August 2007 |title=2 new districts notified in Bangalore |work=The Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/2-new-districts-notified-in-Bangalore/articleshow/2258093.cms |url-status=live |access-date=2007-08-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811134957/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2007-08-06/bangalore/27961491_1_new-districts-ramanagaram-taluks |archive-date=11 August 2011}}

Chikkaballapura

|Kolar

30 December 2009

|Yadagiri{{cite news |date=30 December 2009 |title=Creation of Yadgir district |work=Online Edition of The Hindu, dated 2009-12-30 |location=Chennai, India |url=http://www.hindu.com/2009/12/30/stories/2009123051050300.htm}}

|Kalaburagi

|B.S. Yediyurappa's second ministry

18 November 2020

|Vijayanagara{{cite news |date=19 November 2020 |title=Vijayanagar to be Karnataka's 31st district, BSY Cabinet gives in-principle nod |work=The New Indian Express |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/2020/nov/19/vijayanagar-to-be-karnatakas-31st-district-bsy-cabinet-gives-in-principle-nod-2225175.html |access-date=23 November 2020}}

|Ballari

|B.S. Yediyurappa's third ministry

Administrative structure

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File:India Karnataka location map.png

A district of an Indian state is an administrative geographical unit, headed by a Deputy Commissioner (DC), an officer belonging to the Indian Administrative Service. The deputy commissioner is assisted by a number of officers belonging to the Karnataka Administrative Service. The Deputy Commissioner is also the Collector and District Magistrate of the district. The deputy commissioner/collector is assisted by assistant commissioners and tahsildars, who are incharge of subdivisions and taluks respectively.

A Superintendent of Police (SP), usually an officer belonging to the Indian Police Service (IPS), is entrusted with the responsibility of maintaining law and order and related issues of the district. He is assisted by the officers of the Karnataka Police Service and other Karnataka Police officials. Big cities like Bengaluru, Belagavi, Hubballi-Dharwad, Kalaburagi, Mangaluru and Mysuru are headed by a Commissioner of Police holding the rank of Additional Director General of Police(ADGP) for Bengaluru, Inspector General of Police (IGP) for Mysuru and Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) for Belagavi, Hubballi-Dharwad, Kalaburagi and Mangaluru. They are assisted by officers belonging to the Karnataka Police Service (KSPS).

A Deputy Conservator of Forests, an officer belonging to the Indian Forest Service selected through the UPSC examination is responsible for managing the forests, the environment and wildlife of the district. He is assisted by the officers of the Karnataka Forest Service selected through the KPSC examination.

Sect-oral development is looked after by the district head of each development department such as Public Works, Health, Education, Agriculture, Animal husbandry, etc. These officers belong to the various state services.

=Administrative divisions=

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Belagavi Division	Bengaluru Division	Kalaburagi Division	Mysuru Division
style="vertical-align:top;"\| Bagalkote Belagavi (Headquarters) Dharwada Gadaga Haveri Uttara Kannada Vijayapura \|style="vertical-align:top;"\| Bengaluru Rural Bengaluru Urban (Headquarters) Chikkaballapura Chitradurga Davanagere Kolar Ramanagara Shivamogga Tumakuru \|style="vertical-align:top;"\| Ballari Bidar Kalaburagi (Headquarters) Koppala Raichuru Vijayanagara Yadagiri \|style="vertical-align:top;"\| Chamarajanagara Chikkamagaluru Dakshina Kannada Hassan Kodagu Mandya Mysuru (Headquarters) Udupi

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Alphabetical listing of districts

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!Code{{cite web

|url = https://www.mail.nic.in/docs/MailService_e-mail_address_Policy_WithCodes.pdf

|title = NIC Policy on format of e-mail Address: Appendix (2): Districts Abbreviations as per ISO 3166–2

|pages = 5–10

|publisher = Ministry Of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India

|date = 2004-08-18

|access-date = 2008-11-24

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080911133331/https://www.mail.nic.in/docs/MailService_e-mail_address_Policy_WithCodes.pdf

|archive-date = 2008-09-11

}}

!District

! Headquarters{{cite web|title=Know India – Districts of Karnataka|url=http://india.gov.in/knowindia/districts/andhra1.php?stateid=KA|publisher=Government of India portal|access-date=16 November 2010}}

!EstablishedHere 'Established' means year of establishment as a district of Karnataka. If the district was formed earlier to the formation of district in the state of Karnataka, 1 November 1956 will be considered as the day of establishment of the district.{{cite web|title=STATES REORGANISATION ACT 1956 - Formation of a new Mysore State |url=http://www.commonlii.org/in/legis/num_act/sra1956250/ |access-date=17 November 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516123014/http://www.commonlii.org/in/legis/num_act/sra1956250/ |archive-date=16 May 2008 }}

!Subdivisions(Taluka)

!Population{{Cite web | url=http://www.census2011.co.in/census/state/districtlist/karnataka.html |title = List of districts of Karnataka}}({{As of|2011}})

!Area

!Population density({{As of|2011}})

!Map

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BAG

| Bagalkote

|15 August 1997{{cite web|title=A Handbook of Karnataka – Administration |url=http://www.karunadu.gov.in/gazetteer/HandbookKarnataka2010/Chapter%20IX%20Administration.pdf |publisher=Government of Karnataka |access-date=16 November 2010 |pages=354, 355 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008073453/http://www.karunadu.gov.in/gazetteer/HandbookKarnataka2010/Chapter%20IX%20Administration.pdf |archive-date=8 October 2011 }}

|

|1,889,752

|{{convert|6575|sqkm|sqmi|abbr=on}}

|{{convert|288|/sqkm|/sqmi|abbr=on}}

List of districts of Karnataka

History

= Formations of districts =

Administrative structure

=Administrative divisions=

Alphabetical listing of districts

Proposed districts

See also

References

External links