Sri Ganganagar district


Sri Ganganagar district is the northernmost district of Rajasthan state of India.
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History

Named after Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner, Sri Ganganagar district was part of Bikaner state. This was a mostly uninhabited region. The history of this district is testimony to the vision and efforts of Maharaja Ganga Singh, who visualised and built the Ganga Canal after the Indian famine of 1899–1900. The waters of the Sutlej River were brought into the region through the 89-mile long Gang Canal in 1927, turning this region into a "Food Basket" of Rajasthan.

Geography

Location and area

Sri Ganganagar district is located between Latitude 28.4 to 30.6 and Longitude 72.2 to 75.3 The total area of Sri Ganganagar is 11,154.66 km2 or 1,115,466 hectares. It is surrounded on the east by Hanumangarh district, on the south west by Anupgarh, on the south by Bikaner district, and on the west by Bahawalnagar district of Pakistani Punjab and on the north by Fazilika district of Indian Punjab.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census Sri Ganganagar district has a population of 1,969,168, roughly equal to the nation of Slovenia or the US state of New Mexico. This gives it a ranking of 235th in India. The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 10.06%. Ganganagar has a sex ratio of 887 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 70.25%. 27.19% of the population lives in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 36.58% and 0.68% of the population respectively.
After bifurcation of Sri Ganganagar district into Sri Ganganagar and Anupgarh districts, the residual district had a population of 1,270,690. The residual district had a sex ratio of 881 females per 1000 males. 420,513 lived in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes made up 412,468 and 9,717 of the population respectively.

Religion

According to the 2011 Indian census, Hinduism is the dominant religion of the district, followed by a large Sikh population, along few followers of Islam.

Languages

At the time of the 2011 census of India, 31.66% of the population spoke Punjabi, 25.08% Bagri, 24.22% Rajasthani, 13.02% Hindi and 2.11% Marwari as their first language.

Health

The table below shows the data from the district nutrition profile of children below the age of 5 years, in Ganganagar, as of year 2020.
The table below shows the district nutrition profile of Ganganagar of women between the ages of 15 and 49 years, as of year 2020.
IndicatorsNumber of women Percent Percent
Underweight 90,71614%21%
Overweight/obesity123,30119%20%
Hypertension102,82416%14%
Diabetes60,47810%NA
Anemia 372,69159%35%
Anemia 23,42964%38%
Total women 36,466
Total women633,936

Administration

Tehsils in Ganganagar

There are following Eleven tehsils in Ganganagar district.
  1. Sri Ganganagar
  2. Sri Karanpur, headquarters in the town of Karanpur
  3. Sadulshahar DTO Code RJ56
  4. Padampur
  5. Suratgarh
  6. Anupgarh tehsil headquarters in the town of Anupgarh DTO Code RJ62
  7. Sri Bijaynagar headquarters in the town of Vijainagar
  8. Gharsana tehsil headquarters in the town of Gharsana
  9. Raisinghnagar tehsil headquarters in the town of Raisinghnagar
  10. Gajsinghpur
  11. Rawla Mandi
There are also 12 sub-tehsils in Ganganagar district are Lalgarh Jattan, Hindumalkot, Chunawadh, Mirzawala, Binjhbayla, Ridmalsar, Rajiasar, Jaitsar, 365 Head, Kesrisinghpur, Muklawa, Sameja.
It has one municipal council in Ganganagar city and 10 municipal boards are in Suratgarh,
Sadulshahar, Padampur, Karanpur, Gajsinghpur, Kesrisinghpur, Raisinghnagar, Vijainagar, Anupgarh and Gharsana.
There are total 409 Gram Panchayats in Sri Ganganagar district. Ganganagar has a total of 3061 big and small villages which are the highest in Rajasthan

Major towns and villages

Other major towns and villages include Kesrisinghpur, Gajsinghpur, Suratgarh, Sri Gurusar Modia, Rang Mahal, Dhaban, Muklawa, Sameja, Dullapur Keri, Sadhuwali, Chunawad, Netewala, Ganeshgarh, Lalgarh Jattan, Manniwali, Hindumalkot, Kaliya, Khatlabana, Jaitsar, Binjhbayla, Narsinghpura, Mahiyawali, Sardargarh etc.
There are 11 Panchayat Samitis in SGNR are
  1. Suratgarh
  2. Padampur
  3. Karanpur
  4. Sadulshahar
  5. Ganganagar North
  6. Raisinghnagar
  7. Vijainagar
  8. Anupgarh
  9. Gharsana
  10. Ganganagar South
  11. Rajiasar

Famous places

  1. Rang Mahal
  2. Shivpur Head - Shivpur Fatuhi
  3. Airforce Suratgarh
  4. Thermal Power Plant Super Critical Suratgarh
  5. All India Radio Station Suratgarh
  6. Central Farm Suratgarh, Jaitsar, Sardargarh
  7. CCBF Suratgarh
  8. Shree Cement Udaipur Suratgarh
  9. Koni Village Border
  10. Hindumalkot Border
  11. Padpata Dhaam Dhaban Jhallar
  12. Chanana Dham - 4NN Chanana
  13. Hathiyawala Dham
  14. Suratgarh Sodhal Fort
  15. Dhab Suratgarh
  16. Anupgarh Fort
  17. Shivpuri Fort

Media

The district has editions of state level newspapers from Jaipur, which are re-published from Ganganagar and Raisinghnagar.
"Air Suratgarh", a radio station, broadcasts programmes in Hindi, Rajasthani and Punjabi languages. It was commissioned in 1981 and broadcasts on the 918 kHz frequency.