Rawatsar

Rawatsar is a city, a municipality, and one of the eight tehsils in Hanumangarh district in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

Geography

Rawatsar is located at .^[1] It has an average elevation of 176 metres (577 feet).

Demographics

As of 2001^[update] India census,^[2] Rawatsar had a population of 28,383. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Rawatsar has an average literacy rate of 55%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 65%, and female literacy is 44%. In Rawatsar, 17% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Language

Bagri,^[3] a dialect of Rajasthani language, is spoken by majority of population. Besides, Punjabi, English,Hindi, and Urdu are also in use in this tehsil. The linguistic survey of Bagri was carried our by a team of scholars of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 1993 and it was a major development for linguistic work on Bagri. A lot of research work (given in references) is done on Bagri in recent times. Now, Bagri has a reference grammar, dictionary, primers, and other reference material. The prominent poet on Bagri was Chander Singh "Birkali" who wrote "Loon" ,"Badli" and "Damfar" poems in the early-twentieth century.

Education

There are many schools—public and private—up to senior secondary grades. For higher education, two women's colleges and one boys ITI college and one one co-educational college also.and one boy's collage and three B.Ed college also.

Prominent persons

• Tara Sharma (born 1945 at village Daniyasar) is an Indian actor and director in the Bollywood film industry, Mumbai (Bombay).
  • Dr. Hari Prasad Somani is the RPS From Rawatsar
    • Jitendra Kumar Soni is the IAS from Rawatsar.^[4]

References