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Tumkur is a knowledge hub in the south interior Karnataka and boasts of its own Tumkur University, two medical colleges, five engineering colleges, 38-degree and post-graduate colleges, one dental college and many polytechnics, high schools and primary schools imparting top-level education to all classes of citizens.
Tumkur, officially Tumakuru, [5] [6] is a city and headquarters of Tumakuru district in the Karnataka state of India. [7] [8] Tumkur is known for Siddaganga Matha. Tumkur hosts India's first mega food park, a project of the ministry of food processing. The India Food Park was inaugurated by Prime Minister of India in September 2014. [9]
S. Mallikarjunaiah – former MP Tumkur and Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha (1991–1996) [24] M.P. Prakash – Congress Leader and former deputy chief minister of Karnataka [24] M. B. Patil – former Minister for Water Resources, Government of Karnataka; Suresh Angadi – Minister of State for Railways, Government of India
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. [1]
Tumkur is one of the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka state in southern India. [1] ... Name District Member Party Party Leading (in 2024) 128 Chiknayakanhalli:
D. C. Gowri Shankar is an Indian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly (India) in Karnataka.He was elected to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Madhugiri in the 2008 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Janata Dal (Secular).
Thipatooru Lok Sabha constituency was a former Lok Sabha constituency in Mysore State (Karnataka from 1957 to 1967). This seat came into existence in 1957 and ceased to exist in 1966, before 1967 Lok Sabha Elections. This constituency was later merged with Tumkur Lok Sabha constituency. [citation needed]
Map of the region. Ramanagara is approximately 50 km southwest of Bangalore.The district shares borders with the districts of Bangalore Urban in the east, Bangalore Rural in the North-east, Tumakuru in the North-west, Mandya in the west and Chamarajanagara in the south-west and Krishnagiri district of Tamilnadu state in the south.