Haroonabad Tehsil ( ur, ) is a
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 ...
located in
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 ...
,
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 a ...
,
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...
. The city of
Haroonabad is the headquarters of the tehsil which is administratively subdivided into 22
Union Councils.
Tehsils & Unions in the District of Bahawalnagar - Government of Pakistan
History
Under the Punjab Local Government Act 2013, the Tehsil Municipal Administration for Haroonabad was converted into a Municipal Committee for the city of Haroonabad.Hindu
Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism. Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...
community of the area was asked to vacate their houses by local administration, allegedly due to pressure from the owners of a housing scheme who intended to demolish these homes. A protest was held in response urging the Punjab government to take action. The Hindu community has lived in the area for about 30 years since the commissioner of Bahawalnagar District allowed them to construct homes on government land in 1987.
Geography
Haroonabad Tehsil has an area of 1,295 km2.
Adjacent tehsils
* Bahawalnagar Tehsil (northeast)
* Raisinghnagar Tehsil, 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 ...
, Rajasthan
Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It is on India's northwestern s ...
, India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
(northeast)
*Anupgarh Tehsil
Anupgarh Tehsil is the one of ten tehsils of Sri Ganganagar district in Rajasthan, India. The tehsil headquarters are located at the town of Anupgarh.
Demographics
People have migrated from other tehsils of Sri Gangagnagar district, and from B ...
, Sri Ganganagar District, Rajasthan, India (southeast)
* Fort Abbas Tehsil (south)
* Yazman Tehsil, Bahawalpur District (southwest)
* Chishtian Tehsil (northwest)
Demographics
According to the 2017 Census of Pakistan
The 2017 Census of Pakistan was a detailed enumeration of the Pakistani population which began on 15 March 2017 and ended on 25 May 2017. It was the first census taken in the country in the 21st century, nineteen years after the previous one in ...
, there are 525,598 people living in Haroonabad Tehsil and 85,626 households. Its population recorded in the 1998 census was 381,767.
References
Bahawalnagar District
Tehsils of Punjab, Pakistan
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