Mandya

Mandya is a city in the state of Karnataka in southern India and the headquarters of Mandya district. It is also called Sugar City, in Kannada Sakkare Nagara, because sugarcane is the major crop grown around it and sugar factories contribute much of its economic output; the Government of India's One District One Product programme lists jaggery as the primary product of the district. The city is divided into 35 wards of the Mandya City Municipal Council. The Krishna Raja Sagara dam, built by Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV and M. Visvesvaraya, opened in 1932 within Mandya district, and the Archaeological Survey of India has excavated an eighth century statue of Bahubali at Arthipura in the district. At the 2011 census of India the city had a population of 137,358, a literacy rate of 85.32 percent and a sex ratio of 1000 females per 1000 males. The city lies at an average elevation of 678 metres.