Naikal is a village in the southern state of Karnataka, India.[1][2] It lies at the foot of a rocky hill called Parmanan,[3] along the Yadgir-Shahapur Road (State Highway 15 (Karnataka)).[4] Administratively, it is under Wadgera Taluk of Yadgir district in Karnataka. The Naikal Hill Station, #17 of the Great Arc Meridional Survey, was located just east of the village on another rocky hill called Gúrbasapa.[3]
Naikal lies along the path of the proposed Surat-Chennai Expressway,[5] and over forty hectares of Naikal's irrigated land was condemned by eminent domain in 2020 for the project.[6]
KBN Agro Industries operates a cotton gin in Naikal, and Sugureshwar Mineral Water operates a bottling plant there.[7]
Demographics
As of 2001[update] India census, Naikal had a population of 6,050 with 3,010 males and 3,040 females.[1]
^ abStrahan, George, ed. (1890). Account of The Operations of the Great Triganometrical Survey of India. Vol. 12. Dehradun, India: Surveyor General of India. p. Appendix A, page 9.
