Virajpet, Karnataka
Virajpet is a town in Kodagu district of Karnataka and serves as Nagar Panchayat. It is also a Block, Taluk and Taluka Panchayat of Kodagu district.
As on December 2024, the current population of Virajpet is 19.3 thousands out of which 9.8 thousands are males and rest 9.5 thousands are females. The sex ratio of this town is 977 females per 1000 males. There are around 1.6 thousands teenagers in Virajpet. It has literacy rate of 84% which means around 16.3 thousands persons can read and write. Total 1.9 thousands people belonging to scheduled caste and 403 scheduled tribe people live in the town. There are around 4.9 thousands households in Virajpet, which means every family has 4 members on average. The town has working population of 8.1 thousands.
Schools
Virajpet has many good schools for education and follwing are popular schools among students.
- St Annes School(Kan)
- Coorg Public Hp And High School Atthur
- St. Thomas Hp And High School
- St.Annes High School(English)
- St Antony H P S Ponnampete
Virajpet Taluka Panchayat
Smita Prakash is the President (Block Pramukh) of Taluka Panchayat Virajpet, who can be contacted at email address smitha.prakash@gmail.com and mobile number 96117xxx80. The Block landline number is 08274-948**691. The Block Development Officer (BDO) is Shanmugam H A, who can be reached at email address eotppn@gmail.com and mobile number 94808xxx10. The Block address is Virajpet Taluk Panchayath, Ponnampet, Virajpet, Pincode - 571216. You can reach there by taking a bus till Ponnampet bus stop which is less than a km away. The Block has library facility, internet facility and Wi-Fi facility.There are fifty six computers available for various works.It also has a CSC center. Virajpet Taluka Panchayat consists of total 18 Gram Panchayat.
- Ammathi
- Betoli
- Bilugunda
- Bittangala
- Chembe Bellur
- Chennayana Kote
- Gonikoppal
- Halugunda
- Hosur
- Kakotuparambu
- Kadanur
- Kannangala
- Karmadu
- Kedamullur
- Maldare
- Polibetta
- Siddapura
- Arji
Other villages in Virajpet Taluk
Virajpet Taluk has total 1 villages which are currently not mapped to any Gram Panchayat.