Tumkur

Tumkur officially renamed as Tumakuru is one of the industrial cities located in the state of Karnataka, also known as Shaikshanika Nagari city of education and Kalpatharu Nadu land of coconut trees. Since 28 August 2010, Tumkur has been agreed the status of a City Corporation. It is arranged at a separation of 70 km 43 mi northwest of Bangalore, along National Highway NH-4 and NH-206. It is the home office of the Tumkur region.

Tumkur has India's first super nourishment stop, a venture of the service of sustenance preparing. The India Food Park was initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in September 2014. The name of the city is accepted to have been changed perhaps from "Tumbe ooru" on account of the plenitude of tumbe huuvu, a sort of bloom, or tamate ooru as a result of the people melodic percussion instrument tamate, that may have been utilized most here.

Likewise, it is known as the coconut city. Another story says that amid the manage of cholas Gulur was their capital. Since Tumkur is at high height the watchmen used to be there on any slope with tumaki a sort of drum and used to put forth solid in defense of any alarms, henceforth the name. The Indian focal government affirmed the demand to formally rename the Tumkur and 12 different urban communities in October 2014.