Trehgam is a town in
Kupwara district of the Indian
union territory of
Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir may refer to:
* Kashmir, the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent
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. The village is located at a distance of from district headquarters
Kupwara town. Trehgam has recently been carved out as the sixth constituency of District Kupwara.
Trehgam hamlet shares a common yard with a Hindu temple and nearby there’s a shrine of a great sufi saint Syed Ibrahim Bukhari (RA). Symbolizing communal harmony and peaceful coexistence, the three religious entities—Shiv temple, Grand Mosque and the Shrine—are in a row and in front of them there’s a famous pond which is the main source of water for almost half a dozen nearby villages.
Trehgam, popularly known as the mother of Kashmir’s resistance movement, is the birth place of Shaheed Muhammad Maqbool Bhat, who was hanged in 1984 in Delhi’s Tihar Jail. His family still lives in the village.
The pond is believed to be thousand year old and is currently the main source of water for almost half a dozen nearby villages. Sir Walter Lawrence in his famous book The Valley of Kashmir writes, “The pond of Trehgam indicates the utmost beauty of Kashmir.
Demographics
According to 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 ...
, Trehgam has 1258 households.
The literacy rate of Trehgam was 75.54% compared to 67.16% of Jammu and Kashmir. In Trehgam, Male literacy stands at 82.6% while the female literacy rate was 66.09%.
Transport
Rail
The nearest railway stations to Trehgam are
Sopore railway station
Sopore railway station is situated in the outskirts of Sopore town. It lies on Northern Railway Network Zone of Indian Railways. It is one of the northernmost station of Indian Railways.
Location
The station is located at Amargrah about 2 km f ...
and
Baramulla railway station
Baramulla railway station is situated in outskirts of baramulla town nearly about 5km from main town. Transport facility is available in working hours from main town baramulla to railway station and vice versa. It is the first station of 130&nb ...
both located at a distance of from Trehgam.
Air
The nearest airport is
Srinagar International Airport located at a distance of .
See also
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Lolab Valley
The Lolab Valley is a Himalayan valley located in union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India. The entrance to the valley lies east of Kupwara, and the centre of the valley lies northwest of Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir. LOLAB i ...
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Gurez
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Tulail Valley
The Tulail Valley is a Himalayan sub-valley of Gurez in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir in India. The Valley lies northeast of Bandipora and from Srinagar the capital of Jammu and Kashmir. Tulail Valley lies immediate east of the Gu ...
References
Cities and towns in Kupwara district
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