Mandi Dabwali is a

municipal committee Municipal or local governance refers to the third tier of governance in India, at the level of the municipality or urban local body. History Municipal governance in India in its current form has existed since the year 1664. In 1664, Fort Ko ...

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, near Sirsa City in

Sirsa district Sirsa district is the largest district of Haryana state. Sirsa is the district headquarters. It is located on National Highway 9 and from the capital Delhi. Etymology The district is named after its headquarters, Sirsa. The name, Sirsa is deri ...

in the Indian

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Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land ar ...

. It is located on the border of

and

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...

. It is at a distance of 60 km from district headquarter Sirsa and 40 km from

Bathinda Bathinda is a city and municipal corporation in Punjab, India. The city is the administrative headquarters of Bathinda District. It is located in northwestern India in the Malwa Region, west of the capital city of Chandigarh and is the fifth l ...

. Pin code of Mandi Dabwali is 125104 and STD code is 01668. In the

2001 Census of India The 2001 Census of India was the 14th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1871. The population of India was counted as 1,028,737,436 consisting of 532,223,090 males and 496,514,346 females. Total population increased by 18 ...

, Mandi Dabwali had a population of 53811. Males constituted 53% of the population and females 47%. In the

2011 Census of India The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. The House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved the collection of information about all buildings. Information ...

, Mandi Dabwali had a population of 269,929. Males constituted 141945 of the population and females 127984. Punjabi is the dominant language spoken by people. Dabwali fire accident occurred on 23 December 1995 in which at about 400 people died mostly school children among them and another 160 were injured, half of them with serious burns. This tragic accident happened in Rajeev Marriage Palace during a function organized by a local DAV Public School. Now at the same place, there is a Library founded in the memory of those died ones. The town has been a hub for manufacturing and marketing modified open jeeps since early 2000s. Mandi Dabwali comes under Tehsil Dabwali which is also an assembly constituency 43 Mandi Dabwali has a Railway Station which connects it to Bathinda (Punjab) and to Hanumangarh (Rajasthan). It is the only Station of Indian State Haryana Jodhpur-Bathinda Railway Line of Northern Western Railway. The town has the facility of Indoor stadium named

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Stadium The town has a college named Dr. B.R Ambedkar Govt College Mandi Dabwali. affiliated to

Chaudhary Devi Lal University Chaudhary Devi Lal University, named after Chaudhary Devi Lal, the former Deputy Prime Minister of India was established by the Government of Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carve ...

Sirsa Sirsa is a city and a municipal council in Sirsa district in the westernmost region of the Indian state of Haryana, bordering Punjab and Rajasthan. It is located in Thar desert. It is located 250 kilometres north-west of New Delhi and 260 kilome ...

. Villages under Dabwali tehsil - Shergarh, Sakta Khera, Lohgarh, Choutala, Abub Shahar, Mangiana, Habuana, Alikan, Masitan, Moujgarh, Panniwala Ruldu, Nilanwali, lambi, moujgarh.

Notable people

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, comedian and actor

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{{Sirsa district topics Cities and towns in Sirsa district

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