Safidon
| Safidon | |
|---|---|
| city | |
  Safidon | |
| Coordinates: 29°25′N 76°40′E / 29.42°N 76.67°ECoordinates: 29°25′N 76°40′E / 29.42°N 76.67°E | |
| Country |
 India |
| State | Haryana |
| District | Jind |
| Elevation | 221 m (725 ft) |
| Population (2001) | |
| • Total | 27,542 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Hindi |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| PIN | 126112 |
| Telephone code | 1686 |
| Vehicle registration | HR-33 |
| Website | www.safidoncity.com |
Safidon is a city and a municipal committee in Jind district in the Indian state of Haryana.
Safidon is located at . It has an average elevation of 221 m (725 feet). Safidon is the center of Panipat and Jind. The town is the headquarters of the tehsil of the same name. It is situated on the bank of the Hansi branch of the Western Yamuna canal, 35 hm northeast of Jind. The Safidon Sub-Division comprises Safidon tehsil and sub-tehsil Pillukhera. There are 71 villages under Safidon Tehsil. Safidon is the constituency no. 50 of Haryana Vidhan Sabha. It is located on the Panipat-Jind railway line.
History
The place is possibly the site of Sarpadevi or Sarpidadhi referred in Mahabharata and Vamana Purana. It is associated with snake sacrifice of Janamejaya, son of Parikshit. The latter lost his life in the struggle against the Nagas of Taxiles, which was later avenged by his son Janamejaya, symbolised in the epic tradition of Sarpasastra (snake sacrifice) which possibly took place at Sarpadevi. There are three ancient temples and tirthas of Nagesvara Mahadeva, Nagadamni Devi and Nagashetra.
The area was first occupied by a Pre-Harappan Chalcolithic agricultural community, whose pottery has been recovered from a number of places near Safidon, including Anta, Morkhi, and Beri Khera.
The area was irrigated during the reign of Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1351-1388) of the Tughlaq dynasty, who built a canal from the Yamuna which entered the district at Anta, and thence flowing through the present Jind tahsil from east to west in the line of the old Chutang nadi past the town of Safidon and Jind, reached up to Hisar. Firoz also made administrative changes, creating a separate Iqta of Safidon and placed the entire area of the present district under its Mukta, Yalkhan, a trusted noble. He also changed the name of Safidon to Tughluqpur.
After Firoz's death, discord disrputed the Delhi Sultanate, and the Tughlaq dynasty lost Safidon and Jind. Timur attacked northern India in 1398, entering Haryana from Punjab. The district of Jind did not suffer much at his hands; during his march from Kaithal to Panipat he touched only the outskirts of the district except for a short distance of a few kilometres from Moana (a small village)to Safidon and a little beyond. While local inhabitants fled, the fort of Safidon was burned.
Gajpat Singh, a great grandson of Phul, the founder of the Phulkian Misl, one of the 12 confederacies of the Sikhs in the 18th century took advantage of the above situation. He took part in the attack of the Sikhs on the province of Sirhind in 1763 in which Zain Khan, The Afghan governor of the province was killed. Gajpat Singh occupied a large tract of the country including Jind and Safidon as his share of the spoil.
During the reorganization of the Punjab in 1966, the Sangrur district was divided and Jind and Narwana Tehsils were allocated to Haryana and were constituted into Jind district. The Jind tahsil was divided into two tehsils of Jind and Safidon in 1967. In January 1973, five villages of Kaithal Tehsil were transferred to Safidon Tehsil .
Distance from other cities
- New Delhi: 110 km;
- Panipat: 32 km;
- Jind: 34 km;
- Karnal: 60 km;
- Chandigarh: 190 km;
- Ambala: 150 km.
- Assandh :14 km.
- Gohana :38 km.
- Kaithal:56km.
- Paonta Sahib : 185km
Demographics
The 2011 India Census reported that:[1]
- In 2011 safidon has population 40,432
- Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%.
- Safidon has an average literacy rate of 65%, higher than the national average of 59.5%.
- Male literacy is 71% and female literacy is 58%.
- 14% of the population was under six years of age.
- Evenly distributed Hindu and Sikh population, with small Muslim and Christian communities.
TIN Facilitation Center
There is a TIN Facilitation Center in Safidon. Tax Information Network (TIN) is an initiative by Income Tax Department of India (ITD) for the modernization of the current system for collection, processing, monitoring and accounting of direct taxes using information technology.
Economy and infrastructure
This city is connected by railway and roadway to Panipat, Jind, Rohtak, Delhi, and Chandigarh. Safidon is the sub-depot of the Haryana Roadways (Haryana state transport).
Safidon, being the main city in Jind district, is also the site of a container rail terminal of the Container Corporation of India (CONCOR), and a bus terminal.
Places of interest
- Nagakshetra temple: Oldest temple in the city.
- Dasasvamedha tirtha: At village Didwara in Safidon tahsil, 13 km north of Safidon. Bathing here with devotion is considered to have the merit of ten Ashvamedha sacrifices.
- Aruna tirtha: It lies at village Anta, 6 km south of Safidon. It finds mention in the Mahabharata.
- Panchanada tirtha Hatkeswar Teerth: It lies at village Hatt( Sumeet Singh Boora village ), about 10 km southwest of Safidon. The creation of this tirtha is attributed to Rudra. Inhabited by the gods, Panchanada tirtha is considered the remover of all sins.
- Parasara tank and a brick temple of Mahadeva at Paju Kalan (5 kilometres north-west of Safidon).
- Suraj Kund built in honour of Sun God at Kalwa (15 kilometres south-west of Safidon).
- Temple of Mahadeva at Barod (5.5 kilometres north-east of Safidon).
- A tank named after the Vedic sage Vasishtha at Budha Khera (12 kilometres north-west of Safidon ).
Schools
Colleges
Computer Shop
IT HUB
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