| Voice of North Kannada
: Shripathy Rao
Uttara Kannada is situated at the Western Ghat belt. It is a hilly
region & dominated by tribes with diverse forestry. The big
projects like mining, power plants construction etc. pose a threat
to bio-diversity.
Environment threat is the major issue we are facing.
Government should expedite in maintaining the greenery.
North Kannada
District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 10291.0 Km2
Population in North KANNADA (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 14,36,847
Male : 7,27,424
Female : 7,09,423
Under 6 population
Total : 1,46,457
Male : 75,225
Female : 71,232
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 28313
In seeing : 13291
In speech : 2478
In hearing : 1648
In movement : 7826
Mental : 3070
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : 393
Sex Ratio Rank : 418
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : A
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 326 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 95 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Brief About North Kannada District
About District
Reel Name: North Kanara Tour XVI
Reel Notes: Carved pillars, town of Ulavi, town of Haliyal, Kulumbi
lady, Haliyal fort
Date of Exposure: November 20,1983
Road
Shirali is on the National Highway No. 17 (th highway
that runs from Mumbai to Thiruananthapuram). A large number of Karnataka
and Maharashtra State Transport buses pass through Shirali. Private
transport buses using NH17 also provide facility to reach Shirali.
From the main road (highway) of Shirali, Shri Chitrapur Math is
about 2 km in the interior, for which auto-rickshaws are available.
Distances to Shirali from some of the major cities
are: Bangalore 506 km Goa (Panaji) 225 km Mangalore 156 km Mumbai
952 km Pune 780 km Rail On the Konkan Railway line, the nearest
railway stations are Murdeshwar and Bhatkal (both about 6 km from
Shirali to the north and south respectively). Autorickshaws, buses
and other modes of road transport are available to reach Shirali
from either of the railway stations. The Manglore-Verna stops at
Chitrapur station at 9.39 a.m. and Verna-M'lore trains stops at
17:03 p.m.
Air The nearest airport is Mangalore (156 km) and
the next closest is Dabolim, Goa (200 km)
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