Hidkal | |
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Village | |
  Hidkal Location in Karnataka, India Show map of Karnataka Hidkal Hidkal (India) Show map of India | |
| Coordinates:16°08′11″N74°39′17″E / 16.13639°N 74.65472°E /16.13639; 74.65472 | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Karnataka |
| District | Belgaum |
| Hukkeri | Raybag |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Kannada |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
Hidkal is a village inBelgaum district in the southern state ofKarnataka,India.[1]
Hidkal dam is built around the Dhupdal weir (a low dam built across a stream to raise its level or divert its flow), a 70 km-long-canal built by the British in 1897. The first phase of the irrigation project was intended to irrigate around 45,000 hectares of land.[citation needed]
The Hidkal reservoir across the Ghataprabha river in Hidkal village and 40 km of the canal length were built in the second phase.[vague] After the third phase, the project aims to irrigate 3.3 lakh hectares of land with a total capacity of 51.16 tmcft of water. Now,[when?] after a drought of three seasons, its total storage has been reduced to 6 tmcft, including dead storage of around 2 tmcft.[citation needed]
Every year, 2 tcmft of drinking water is released from Hidkal toBagalkot.[citation needed]
Hidkal also beautiful gardens, nurseries. The Hunnur inspection Bungalow on bank of backwater and hunnur fort are attractions.
HDP High School is one of the schools located there.
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