About Bedkani Village

Bedkani is a mid sized village in Siddapur tehsil, in the district of Uttara Kannada, Karnataka. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,772, made up of 892 males and 880 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 987 females per 1000 males. The village covers 643.15 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 581355, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Bedkani compares

By the 2011 count Bedkani is among the largest villages in the tehsil, which puts it more than twice the local average, where the typical village holds 427 residents. Its 643.15 hectares work out to about 2.8 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, the balance between women and men is close to even, though that is a little below the tehsil average of 1010.

Getting to Bedkani

Bedkani is well connected by rural standards, with buses in the village itself and a railway station close by. The census records public bus service for Bedkani as Available within village. Private bus service is recorded as Available within 10+ km distance. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within <5 km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Bedkani from other places

Bedkani lies about 47 km from Uttara Kannada, and the nearest railway station is Talaguppa, about 16 km away. The figures below are straight-line distances from the village to each place. A road journey is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again.

Villages closest to Bedkani

These are the nearest recorded villages by distance rather than by name, all of them in Siddapur tehsil.

• Bhankuli under 2 km
• Tyarshi 1.8 km
• Gunjagod 2.2 km
• Nagarbhavi 2.7 km
• Maghegar 3.3 km
• Golikai 3.7 km

Source: Census of India 2011, the most recent completed census. Figures have not been revised since collection. Read more on our about the data page.