| Sri Ganganagar | |
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| Country | India |
| State | Rajasthan |
| District(s) | Ganganagar |
| Population • Density |
210,788 (2001[update]) • 163 /km2 (422 /sq mi) |
| Sex ratio | 873 ♂/♀ |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+05:30) |
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11,154.66 square kilometres (4,306.84 sq mi) • 164 metres (538 ft) |
Sri Ganganagar (Hindi: श्री गंगानगर) (Punjabi: ਸ੍ਰੀ ਗੰਗਾਨਗਰ), also called Ganganagar (Hindi:गंगानगर ), is the northernmost city of Rajasthan in western India. It is the administrative headquarters of Ganganagar District.[1][2]
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Sri Ganganagar is named after the General Saurabh Shah Maharaja Sir Ganga Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Bikaner, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., G.C.V.O., G.B.E., K.C.B., K.I.H.. Sri Ganganagar is established as the major plan of irrigating the Erstwhile Bikaner State. Sri Ganganagar is situated at the point where the Satluj Waters enters Rajasthan or Erstwhile Bikaner state. The Bikaner state was affected by the worst famine in the year 1899–1900. In order to get rid of this problem permanently, in 1903 Maharaja Sri Ganga Singhji obtained the services of A. W. E. Standley, Chief Engineer, who demonstrated the feasibility of the western area of the Bikaner State being brought under irrigation from the Satluj Waters. The plan of the Satluj Valley Project was drawn by then Chief Engineer of Punjab Mr. R. G. Kennedy according to which the vast area of Erstwhile Bikaner state could be brought under irrigation. But because of objections by the erstwhile State of Bahawalpur, the project got delayed and finally with intervention of then Viceroy of India Lord Curzon in 1906, a Tripartite Conference was held and an agreement was reached and signed on 4 September 1920. The foundation stone of the Canal Head Works at Ferozepur was laid on 5 December 1925 and the work completed in 1927 by constructing 89 miles of lined canal. The opening ceremony was performed on 26 October 1927 by Lord Irwin, the then Viceroy of India. The plan for Sri Ganganagar was drawn at this time only. Irrigated parts of Bikaner state were brought under Sri Ganganagar district and are now part of Hanumangargh District.
The climate of Sri Ganganagar varies to extreme limits. The Summer Temperature reaches up to 50° Celsius and Winter Temperature dips just around 0° Celsius.[3] The average annual rainfall is only 20 cms.[4]
Desert land was converted to a green town, credited to the Maharaja who brought the Gang canal which carries the excess waters of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh to the region, making Ganganagar district known as "the food basket of Rajasthan".[5] The economy of the city is based on agriculture, its main crops are Wheat, Mustard and Cotton. Other crops are Guar, Bajra, Sugar Cane and Grams. In recent years farmers are also diverting towards Horticulture, and Kinnu(A Citrus Family fruit) has become a major crop of the area. The industries in the city are mostly based on agriculture. The city has Cotton Ginning and Pressing factories, Mustard Oil mills and Wheat Flour mills and of course the famous Rajasthan State Ganganagar Sugar Mills Ltd., which is known for its Royal Heritage Liqueurs.[6][7] It also has spinning and textile factories such as J C T Mills. Because of its prosperity from agriculture, Ganganagar District also has a large number of automobiles which includes tractors and MUVs and because of the large population of automobiles in the district.
As of 2001[update] Indian census,[8][9] Ganganagar had a population of 210,788. Males constitute 55% of the population and females 45%. Ganganagar has an average literacy rate of 71%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 76%, and female literacy is 64%. In Ganganagar, 13% of the population is under 6 years of age. Majority in population are Sikhs and Hindus while only a few people constituting other sects stay here. The main languages spoken in the town are Hindi,Punjabi,Saraiki, Bagri or Marwari.
Sri Ganganagar District At a Glance
S.NO. ITEM UNIT PARTICULARS 1 Area Sq. Km. 11154.66 SubDivision` 9 Tehsil 9 Up Tehsil 6 Panchayat Samiti 8 NagarPalika 10 Gram Panchayat 320 2 Population 2001 1789423
Rural 1336066
Urban 453357 Male 955378
Female 833460 Density of Population Per.Sq.Km. 163
Sex Ratio No. 873 Schedual Caste No. 603371 Schedual Tribe No. 14744 Decadal Growth rate(91-01) % 27.59
Literacy Rate of Total % 64.74 (a) Male % 75.53 (b) Female % 52.69 Percentage of Urban % 25.28 Population Inhabitated Villages No. 2830 Unhabitated No. 184
3 RURAL TEHSILWISE POPULATION CENSUS 2001
(i) Sri Karanpur 136943 (ii) Ganganagar 424206 (iii) Sadulsahar 144124 (iv) Padampur 147948 (v) Raisinghnagar 185070 (vi) Anoopgarh 174413 (vii) Gharsana 175987 (viii) Vijainagar 125709 (ix) Suratgarh 275023
4 URBAN NAGARPALIWALWISE POPULATION CENSUS 2001
(I) Sri Ganganagar 222858 (ii) Sri Karanpur 20694 (iii) Sri Keshrisinghpur 13155 (iv) Padampur 16956 (v) Gajsinghpur 9630 (vi) Sadulshahar 22326 (vii) Raisinghnagar 27736 (viii) Anoopgarh 40490 (ix) Vijainagar 17873 (x) Suratgarh 61639
5 TOWN & VILLAGES
(i) Sub Division No. 6 (ii) Tehsils No. 9 (iii) Up- Tehsils No. 6 (iv) Panchayat Samities No. 8 (v) Total No. of inhabited Village No. 2839 (vi) Total No. unhabited Village No. 192 (vii) Total No. of Town No. 10 (viii) Total No. of Gram Panchayat No. 320
6 AGRICULTURE
(i) Total Reporting Hect. 1093352 (ii) Area Under Forests Hect. 60487 (iii) Land not available for cultivation Hect. 69211 (iv) Permanent Pastures and othergrazing Land Hect. 140 (v) Land under Miscellaneous Tree Hect. 5695 Crops and grows not including fallow land (vi) Cultivable waste land including Hect. 32536 fallow land (vii) Net Area Sown Hect. 675175 (viii)Area Sown more than once Hect. 271398 (ix) Gross cropped area Hect. 676573 (x) Average yield per hect. Hect. (a) Food grains Kg. 3070 (b) Oil Seeds Kg. 1165 (c) Sugarcane Kg. 21672 (d) Cotton (Lint) Kg. 511 (xi) Number of pump sets used for No. 25000 Irrigation (xii) Normal Rainfall MM 303 (xiii)Average size of Holdings Hect. 3.5
7 ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
(figures taken in 2007)
(i) No. of Veterinary Hospital No. 42
(ii) Livestock and poultry No.
(a) Total Live Stock No. 1672596
(b) Cattle (Cows) No. 432727
(c) Buffaloes No. 261579
(d) Pigs No. 2413
(e) Camel No. 18832
(f) Sheep No. 336297
(g) Goats No. 362065
(h) Horses & Ponies No. 1323
(i) Donkies No. 3890
(j) Dogs & Bitches No. 95686
(k) Hare No. 3051
8 Power
Town Electrified No. 10 Total Village Electrified No. 2915 Total Energy Consumed KWH. 6347.21 (a) Domestic Purpose KWH. 2729.30 (b) Com and Temp. Purp. KWH. 507.78 (c) Industrial Purpose KWH. 1332.92 (d) Public Lighting KWH. 63.47 (e) Irrigation KWH. 698.19 (f) Public Water Works KWH. 253.89 (g) Other Purpose KWH. 721.66 Total No of 33/11 KV Shahar No. 90 Well energized (Tube-well) No. 7323 Electricity generated (6 Station) M.watt 1500 Kalputru(1) M.watt 7.2 No Of BPL Connectaion M.watt 3558
9 WATER SUPPLY
Village Covered with safe Drinking Water Supply No. 2830
10 EDUCATION ( Govt Run Schoools)
(a) Primary School No. 1418 (b) Middle School No. 1532 (c) Secondary School No. 376 (d) Senior Secondary School No. 241 (e) No. of Colleges Uni. For No. 37 (f) No. of Colleges for No. 11
11 Public Health Hospital with bed Facilities Urban 1(350)
PHC 9
Sub Center 1 Aruvadic Hospital Rural 8 Urban 85 CHC(430 Bed) 11 PHC(246 Bed) 41
12 CO-OPERATION
(i) Co-operative Socities No. 1253 (ii) Membership No. 479757 (iii) Dairy Co-operative Socities No. 431
13 TRANSPORT & COMMUNICATION
(i) Post Office No. 334 (ii) Telegraph Office No. 18 (iv) Telephone Exchanges No. 113 (v) Registration of Motor Vehicles No. 18548 (vi) Road Length No. 4450.69
14 POLICE
(i) Police Station No. 26 (ii) Police Choki + Temp No. 23 (iii) Jails including lock-ups No. 48
The city earened center of learning since its early ages. This city has a large proportion of land which is dedicated to educational institutes. Notable educational institutions from the city include: Schools:
Other than these there are govt run many schools in every colony with devoted teachers serving the humanity
Colleges:
Industry
Popular sightseeing attractions of the district include HindumalkotBorder, Anupagad ka Qila, Laila Majnu ki Majhar and Dada Pamparam Samadi. In addition to this, religious centres such as Gurudwara Sri Budha Johar Shahab, Ram Mandir, Gauri Shankar Mandir, and Shivpuri Kagad are common tourist destinations. Suratgarh Super Critical Thermal Power Station is the most frequented place around the district headquarters. The school for blind is also a place worth visiting.
Mr Kartar Singh Narula ~ died on Feb 08 2011 Popularly known as Kinnow king Narula
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was very keen to visit Layalpur Fruit Farm located on the Abohar-Sri Ganganagar road (NH-15) but on his way he received information about the death of the President Rajendra Prasad and rushed back to New Delhi after addressing a rally at Nehru Park, Sri Ganganagar. He, however, later honoured Mr Kartar Singh Narula with the Udyan Pandit award at Trimurti Bhavan for growing the best quality of citrus fruit. Earlier, Mrs Indira Gandhi was taken round the farms by Chief Minister Mohan Lal Sukhadia. She was highly impressed with the labour put in by the family.
Born in 1922 at Lyallpur, Mr Narula remembers each and every important moment of his life and narrates extempore. After doing FA from Khalsa College, Lyallpur, he had come to Sri Ganganagar in 1939-40 where the family had purchased desert land from Justice Sir Shadi Lal of the Punjab High Court and others Rs 8,250 per murabba. High sandy heaps were to be levelled, little quantity of canal water was available for irrigation. Karat Singh, upon his marriage in 1945, decided to have proper education in agriculture. He completed one-year vernacular course from the Government College of Agriculture, Lyallpur on May 4, 1946, and still proudly possess the certificate signed by Rai Bahadur Jai Chand Luthra. The beautifully written exercise book in Urdu by Mr Narula had been renovated by a Simla-based society, Nishant, with the efforts of Mrs Prem Suri, wife of late Gen R.K. Suri. The book contains formulae to save crops from pests at much cheaper cost than the prevailing insecticides now.
The family started fruit plantation in 1952 with citrus. After four years, Mr Kartar Singh Narula visited Gajsinghpur, brought some good varieties of mango, dried the same, dipped the seed in “lassi” and planted it using his theoretical experience gained as an agriculture student. He was the first to grow mangoes in the region. Later he visited Bareilly and Merrut, brought mango tree buds and planted other varieties. The nursery was established in 1958.
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru brought four plants of kinnow from Pakistan in 1962. Two plants were put at Pusa Institute, New Delhi, two at botanical garden, Lucknow. Mr Narula succeeded in collecting some buds of these plants in 1963 with the help of a close relation of Panditji during his visit to Trimurti Bhavan in connection with a national citrus show organised with the efforts of Chief Minister Mohan Lal Sukhadia. Mr Narula’s fruits were adjudged the best. Kinnow plants started giving fruits in 1966 at the Lyallpur Farm, the same was adjudged the best at fruit show held at Abohar. Dr M.S. Randhawa, Vice-Chancellor, Punjab Agricultural University, visited Narula’s farm.
Mr Kartar Singh Narula was honoured with a certificate of merit and a cash prize of Rs 500 for excellence in fruit growing at the Independence Day function in 1975 by Agriculture Minister A.P. Shinde. In the same year Mr Parkash Singh Badal and Mr Balram Jakhar had started buying fruit plants from the Lyallpur Nursery, besides Mr Teja Singh Badal, Mr Om Parkash Chautala and many more.
Mr Narula till his death use to get up at 5 a.m. He looks at the plants responding affirmatively to religious enchanting. Non-vegetarian dishes, liquor, smoking and even playing cards are strictly banned in the farms. Some money is kept for the welfare of religious places and the downtrodden.
Mr Narula regrets the canal water was not supplied to orchards as per demand. Fruit growing had becoming an industry in itself. Subsidy was required on insecticides which were becoming costlier day by day. He suggests to new entrepreneurs that if they were really interested in becoming good farmers, they must ensure their presence at the time of putting fertilisers and spraying the plants. Stress should be on using manure for strengthening the soil. If spray was done in the early morning hours the white fly would definitely be controlled. The Narulas are growing more than a dozen fruit varieties and had now entered into a contract with eminent sellers in South India. The emphasis was on developing seedless lemon plants.
Jagjeet Singh(Gazal Singer): Famous gajal singer Jagjeet Singh was born in a village of Sri GangaNagar District and he studied in SGN Khalsa Sen. Sec School before pursuing his career in Singing.
Dr. Sandeep Nain: Dr. Nain is an imminent researcher scholar (PhD) in University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He had his Bachelors degree from Nagpur Veterinary Collage during the year 2002-2007 with First claas (with distinction).