Anupgarh Tehsil is the one of ten

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Sri Ganganagar district Sri Ganganagar district is the northernmost district of Rajasthan state in western India. History Named after Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner, Sri Ganganagar district was part of Bikaner state. This was a mostly uninhabited region. The his ...

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. The tehsil headquarters are located at the town of Anupgarh.

Demographics

People have migrated from other tehsils of Sri Gangagnagar district, and from

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and

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Religion

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ism and Sikhism are practised by the majority of people. As of the Census of India 2011, Anupgarh Tehsil had 184,423 residents, with 153,546 (83.26%) people living in rural areas and 30,877 (16.74%) people living in urban areas. The 2001 census counted a total of 174,413 residents. As per the Population Census 2011 data, following are some quick facts about Anupgarh Tehsil.

Literacy Rate

As of the Census of India 2011 the Average literacy rate of Anupgarh Tehsil in 2011 were 66.34% in which, male and female literacy were 75.69% and 55.99% respectively. Total literate in Anupgarh Tehsil were 105,905 of which male and female were 63,473 and 42,432 respectively.

Geography

Anupgarh Tehsil is located in the southern part of Sri Ganganagar District.

Adjacent tehsils

* Raisinghnagar Tehsil (north) * Vijaynagar Tehsil (east) * Gharsana Tehsil (southwest) * Chhatargarh Tehsil, Bikaner District (southeast) * Haroonabad Tehsil,

Bahawalnagar District Bahawalnagar District (Urdu and pa, ), is a district of Punjab province in Pakistan. Before the independence of Pakistan, Bahawalnagar was part of Bahawalpur state governed by the Nawab of Bahawalpur. The city of Bahawalnagar is the capital ...

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(northwest) * Fort Abbas Tehsil, Bahawalnagar District, Punjab, Pakistan (southwest)

Physical geography

The northern portion of the tehsil is part of the Nali region, a central area of the Sri Ganganagar District characterized by the flow of the

Ghaggar River The Ghaggar-Hakra River is an intermittent river in India and Pakistan that flows only during the monsoon season. The river is known as Ghaggar in India, before the Ottu barrage, and as the Hakra in Pakistan, downstream of the barrage, ending ...

. The terrain of the southern portion of the tehsil can be characterized by sand dunes. This portion is being irrigated by branches of the Indira Gandhi Canal Project.

Languages

Hindi Hindi ( Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been ...

is the official language. Bagri, a dialect of the Rajasthani language, and

Punjabi language Punjabi (; ; , ), sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan language of the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. It has approximately 113 million native speakers. Punjabi is the most widely-spoken first language in Pakistan, with 80.5 ...

s are spoken by the majority of people. Sindhi and Sikh Bawri are also spoken by a few people. Odh and Bawri people speak their unique languages.

Transport

Almost all big villages are connected with roads. Anupgarh and Ramsinghpur are connected with a railway line in this tehsil.

Settlements

Major towns and villages within the tehsil include: * Anupgarh * Ramsinghpur (59Gb) a Sub

Tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administ ...

of Anupgarh

* 11L.M. * Patroda (11P)) * 27 A * 80Gb * 74Gb * KHALL (4 KAM)

References

External links

* http://beeoanupgarh.webs.com * https://web.archive.org/web/20110713111748/http://www.mgsubikaner.ac.in/colleges.php {{Coord, 29.1978312, N, 73.1605983, E, display=title Tehsils of Sri Ganganagar District