One of the three places where Karnataka must now post legal aid lawyers is a district of ten thousand nine hundred and fifty one square kilometres

Background

Kalaburagi is one of the three places, with Bengaluru and Dharwad, where the Karnataka State Legal Services Authority must assign at least five lawyers each under the state's new protocol on underage pregnancies, which is why the district's size and reach matter today. The district administration records its area as 10,951 square kilometres. It was one of three districts transferred from Hyderabad State to Karnataka during the 1956 reorganisation of states, and is one of Karnataka's 30 districts. At the 2011 Census its population was 2,564,892, with a density of 233 inhabitants per square kilometre, a sex ratio of 962 females per 1,000 males and a literacy rate of 65.65 per cent. The district has seven talukas: Afzalpur, Aland, Chincholi, Chittapur, Kalaburagi, Jewargi and Sedam. The Krishna and the Bhima are its rivers. Its crops include bajra, toor, sugarcane, groundnut, sunflower, sesame, castor bean, black gram, jowar, wheat, cotton, ragi, Bengal gram and linseed.