Bikaner district
Bikaner district is a district of the state of Rajasthan in western India. The historic city of Bikaner is the district headquarters. The district is located in Bikaner Division along with the three other districts of Churu, Sri Ganganagar and Hanumangarh.
Geography
The district is bounded by Ganganagar district and Anupgarh district to the north, Hanumangarh district to the northeast, Churu district to the east, Nagaur district to the southeast, Jodhpur district to the south, Jaisalmer district to the southwest, and Punjab Province of Pakistan to the northwest.Bikaner district lies in the Thar Desert. The Indira Gandhi Canal, also known as the Rajasthan Canal, runs through the district from northeast to southwest, providing irrigation water for the district.
In October, 2020 an international group of researchers found a lost river that ran through the central Thar Desert ; 1,72,000 years ago.
Administrative set-up
Bikaner district has 9 sub-divisions, which include Bikaner, Khajuwala, Poogal, Chhatargarh, Lunkaransar, Kolayat, Dungargarh, Nokha and Bajju.Apart from this, there are 11 tehsils or sub district in the bikaner district.
The above 9 sub-division areas are also tehsils or sub-district areas of the district, and apart from that, a new tehsil or sub-district, Jasrasar, was recently created by the government in the Nokha sub-division area and in the Kolayat sub-division area, tehsil or sub-district Hadan was created.
There are 1498 villages and 290 gram panchayats. There is one municipal corporation and six municipal councils: Deshnok, Nokha, Dungargarh, Khajuwala, Loonkaransar and Napasar. The collector and district magistrate of Bikaner is Smt. Namrata Vrishni.
On 30 November 2024, it was announced in the Rajasthan Government meeting that Bikaner Development Authority will now be formed in Bikaner, under which the city and some nearby villages will be developed. Now along with Bikaner Municipal Corporation, Bikaner Development Authority will also work for urban development.