Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Karnataka
- Headquarters
- Bidar
- Division
- Kalaburagi Division
- Region
- Kalyana-Karnataka
- Talukas tehsils
- Aurad Basavakalyan Bhalki Bidar Chitgoppa Hulsoor Humnabad Kamalnagar
- Formation
- 1 November 1956 (69 years ago) ( 1956-11-01 )
- Founded by
- Government of Karnataka
- District chief executive officer
- Dr. Girish Dilip Badole, IAS
- Assistant commissioners
- Sri. Md Shakeel, KAS (Bidar Assistant Commissioner) Sri. Mukul Jain, IAS (Basavakalyan Assistant Commissioner)
- District forest officer and conservator
- Vaanathi M M, IFS
- Lok sabha constituency
- Bidar Lok Sabha constituency
- Type
- Zilla Panchayat (District Administration)
- Body
- Bidar district Panchayat
- Member of parliament lok sabha
- Sagar Khandre ( Indian National Congress )
- District commissioner and district elect
- Shilpa Sharma, IAS
- Additional district commissioner
- Shivanand B Karale, KAS
- Superintendent of police
- Pradeep Gunti, IPS
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Kalaburagi division
- Capital
- Bidar
- Population
- 1703300
- Area
- 5448
- Elevation
- 615
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Medak district
- Official website
- bidar.nic.in
- Image
- Entrance to the Bidar Fort.JPG
- Households
- 319937
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- category of associated people
- Category:People from Bidar district
- Commons category
- Bidar district
- topic's main category
- Category:Bidar district
- male population
- 870665
- female population
- 832635
- urban population
- 425952
- rural population
- 1277348
- literate population
- 1042673
- illiterate population
- 660627
- short name
- BDR
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Encyclopedic overview
Bidar district is a district located in the northernmost part of the Karnataka state in India. The administrative headquarters of district is Bidar city. Geographically, it known as the "Crown of the State", occupying its northeastern end. It is bounded by Kamareddy and Sangareddy districts of Telangana state on the eastern side, Latur and Osmanabad districts of Maharashtra state on the western side, Nanded district of Maharashtra state on the northern side and Kalaburagi district on the southern side.
The Bidar district is constituted by eight talukas, namely Bidar, Humnabad, Bhalki, Aurad, Hulsoor, Chitgoppa, Kamalnagar and Basavakalyan with Bidar being the headquarters of the district. Bidar district is connected with the NH-9 and NH-218 highways.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bidar district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.