Charari Sharief


Charari Sharief in Kashmiri is a town and a notified area committee in the Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
The Assembly constituency is one of the 90 constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir. The town was given the status of a block in January 2014. The town is divided into 10 wards. Each ward has a municipal councillor. The town's mohallas are: Talab-e-Kalan or Bada Talab, Trajibal, Court Road, Gulshan Abad, Nowhar, Baghi Noor U Din Nowhar, Jabl-e-Noor, Wazabagh, Alamdar colony, Zaloosa, and Kumar Mohalla.

Geography

Charari Sharief has an average elevation of above mean sea level.

Demographics

As of the 2011 India census, the town had a total of 2098 households. Charari Sharief has an average literacy rate of 59%, slightly lower than the national average of 59.5%, with male literacy of 58% and female literacy of 38%.
TotalMaleFemale
Population11,5335,9045,629
Children1,638880758
Workers 2,8262,574254
Non working8,7073,3325,375
Literacy649737832714

Municipal committee

Municipal Committee Charari Sharief is an Urban Local Body which administers the town of Charari Sharief in Budgam district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. It has 13 elected members. Its last elections took place on 10 October 2018.
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#NameMunicipal WardReservation StatusParty
1Maheen MunirKarim AbadWomen OpenINC
2Zahid Jan BabaSheer AbadOpenINC
3VacantShah AbadOpenN/A
4VacantReshi AbadWomen OpenINC
5Imtiyaz Ahmad DarWazabaghOpenINC
6VacantNoor AbadOpenINC
7VacantSharief AbadWomen OpenINC
8Hamid HussainGulshan Abad AOpenINC
9Anjil ZahidGulshan Abad BOpenINC
10JawharaNudreshi ColonyWomen OpenINC
11VacantAlmadar Basti 1OpenN/A
12Bilal Ahmad TeliAlmadar Basti 2OpenINC
13Tariq Ahmad DarRozabalOpenINC

Tsrar Kanger

Tsrar-i-Sharief is most famous for its variety of kangri known as "Tsrar kanger". Writing in 1895, Sir Walter Lawrence, in his passage about Kanger in The Valley of Kashmir, exclaims: “Among the most prized of the Tsrari Sharif fairings is the pretty painted Kanger.” Tsrar Kanger is specifically used to inaugurate wedding ceremonies. During this ritual, aromatic seeds called 'isband' are burned because the practice is believed to ward off evil spirits.