Chikalchanda

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Chikalchanda, a small village of Bhalki taluka in Bidar district in Karnataka. This village comes 5 KM from Bhalki, having around 2000 population. Majority of its people are Marathi.

Since this village is surrounded by small lakes & canal it has good fertile black soil growing green gram, black gram, red gram, jawar, bajra, sugarcane are the growing crops of this village.

Chikalchanda is known for its Peer Darga (Gaibi Saheb), in the month of April, urs (Jatra) of this Darga is celebrated and people of surrounding villages comes to attend this Urs(Jatra), few other small temples of this village are Laxmi Mandir, Hanman Madir, Vagoba Temple.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poojakshi_Jai
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Coordinates:   17°59'48"N   77°13'54"E

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  • Majority of the people of Chikalchanda are Kannadigas and not Marathi. Please correct this misinformation.
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