Balesar tehsil

Balesar tehsil
Tehsil
Balesar tehsil
Location of Balesar tehsil in Jodhpur Rural district
Country	India
State	Rajasthan
District	Jodhpur District
Seat	Balesar

Balesar tehsil is a tehsil in Jodhpur District of Rajasthan state in western India. ^[1] Headquarters for the tehsil is the village of Balesar.

Balesar tehsil is a central tehsil among the eleven tehsils in Jodhpur District. It borders Phalodi tehsil to the north, Osian tehsil and Mandor tehsil to the east, Luni tehsil to the southeast, Barmer District to the southwest and Sekhala tehsil to the west. ^[2]

History

In 2009 Balesar tehsil was created out of the eastern half of Shergarh tehsil, before that Balesar had been a subtehsil with a separate panchayat samiti, ^[3] sometimes referred to as ILRC Balesar. ^[4]

Villages

There are thirty-three panchayat villages in Balesar tehsil. ^[5]

• Agolai
• Balesar Durgawatan
• Balesar Sattan
• Bastawa
• Bawarli
• Belwa
• Belwa Ranaji
• Bhatelai Purohitan
• Birai
• Bisariya
• Hapasar
• Dhadhaniya Bhaila
• Dhandhaniya Sasan
• Dugar
• Gopalsar
• Khari Beri
• Khudiyala
• Kui Inda
• Nimbo Ka Gaon
• Utamber

Notes

1. "Administrative Setup". Jodhpur District. Archived from the original on 6 August 2013.
2. "Map:Jodhpur District, Administrative Setup". Jodhpur District. 2007. Archived from the original on 9 April 2009.
3. "Administrative Setup". Jodhpur District. 2002. Archived from the original on 25 December 2002.
4. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. p. 359.
5. "Reports of National Panchayat Directory: Village Panchayat Names of Balesar, Jodhpur, Rajasthan". Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India. Archived from the original on 14 May 2013.

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