Thursday, July 14, 2022

Bilagi- ಬೀಳಗಿ

Bilagi or Bilgi is a panchayat town and taluka in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka, India. Bagalkot district is located in the northern part of Karnataka at an elevation of 450 to 800 meters above sea level with an area of 6593 sq. km; bounded by Vijayapur towards the north, Gadag towards the south, Raichur towards the east, Koppal district towards southeast and Belgaum district towards the west; comprises 6 taluks: Bagalkot, Badami, Bilagi, Hungund, Jamakhandi, and Mudhol. 

Bilagi or Bilgi or Beelagi town is located at a distance of 31 Km from Bagalkot and the taluka covers an area of 782 square km, lies between 16°-03′ to 16°-32′ north latitude and 75°-73′ to 76°-49′ east longitude, bordered by Vijayapura Taluka of Vijayapur earlier Bijapur District to the north, Mudhol Taluka to the west, Bagalkot Taluka to the south and southeast, and Jamakhandi Taluka to the north. The Krishna River and its reservoir form its northern boundary. 





*Courtesy of Google Maps
Apparently, Bilgi was a small Peta(Market) But now expanded to Sonna towards the north, Nagaral towards the west, Sunaga towards the south-east, and Bilagi cross towards the east. The main occupation of people in this taluka is agriculture. Most of the farmers grow sugarcane. 

In addition to the headquarters town of Bilgi, Bilgi Taluka has twenty panchayat villages which administer from one to seven sub-villages; they are:

Bilgi, this interesting town comprises several interesting monuments Such as: 
Bilgi is an agriculture-based town located between Ghataprabha and Krishna rivers, constituting fertile soil of both mainly black and to certain extent red. It uses to harvest jawar, cotton, wheat, and several types of pulses like groundnut, green gram, Toor daal - yellow pigeon peas, etc. 

Because of the mechanization, cost of labor, and availability of impounding water of the Krishna river from the construction of the barrage at Alamatti, agriculture became mostly monoculture of sugarcane and the earlier indigenous grain are alienated. This resulted in the establishment of several sugar industries around Bilgi. 

Bilgi has a rich cultural heritage because of the people of bilgi and the rituals and festivals celebrated there. There are a lot of festivals celebrated in Bilgi with much enthusiasm and tradition such as: 

Bilgi, a beautiful place with the above said historical evidences and cultural richness has become a birthplace or a place for prosperity in their profession and career. Several eminents, who served as Administrators, Artists, Doctors, Scientists, Professors, Freedom Fighters, Educationists, Novelists, Poets, Linguists, etc. Few among them are mentioned here :
  1. Ameerbai Karnataki
  2. Sanadi Appanna
  3. Dr. M C Modi
  4. Kandagal Hanamantaraya 
  5. Kanthi Hanumantaraya
  6. Krishnamoorthy Puranik 
  7. Goharbai Karnataki or Miss Gohar of Bijapur
  8. Madhvaraj Umarji 
  9. Diwakar Ranganath Ramchandra
  10. Basappa Bagali                               
  11. Bidari Siddappa Mayappa
  12. Sindhoor Lakshman
  13. Dr. Bidari Siddappa Sabanna 
  14. Dr. Gururaj Karajagi
  15. Dr. Sreeram Ittannavar
  16. Smt. Malati Sirdeshpande
  17. Dr. V B Hosagoudar.
  18. Shantayya Paradimatt
The above list is growing, I have just selected a few to mention here. The soil of Bilgi has the power of producing the eminent. Powerful people come from powerful places.











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