Girwa tehsil

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Girwa

Girwa
Tehsil
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Girwa
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Girwa
Girwa (India)
Coordinates: 24°58′N73°58′E / 24.967°N 73.967°E / 24.967; 73.967 Coordinates: 24°58′N73°58′E / 24.967°N 73.967°E / 24.967; 73.967
CountryFlag of India.svg  India
State Rajasthan
District Udaipur
Population
 • Total96,735 [1]
Languages
 • Official Hindi, Rajasthani
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)
Telephone code0294
Vehicle registration RJ 27

Girwa is a tehsil of Udaipur district, Rajasthan, India. [2] The administrative headquarter of the tehsil is located in the City of Udaipur. [2]

A tehsil is an administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is an area of land within a city or town that serves as its administrative centre, with possible additional towns, and usually a number of villages. The terms in India have replaced earlier geographical terms, such as pargana and thana.

Udaipur district District of Rajasthan in India

Udaipur district is one of the 33 districts of Rajasthan state in western India. The historic city of Udaipur is the administrative headquarters of the district. The district is part of the Mewar region of Rajasthan.

Rajasthan State in India

Rajasthan is a state in northern India. The state covers an area of 342,239 square kilometres (132,139 sq mi) or 10.4 percent of the total geographical area of India. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. Rajasthan is located on the northwestern side of India, where it comprises most of the wide and inhospitable Thar Desert and shares a border with the Pakistani provinces of Punjab to the northwest and Sindh to the west, along the Sutlej-Indus river valley. Elsewhere it is bordered by five other Indian states: Punjab to the north; Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to the northeast; Madhya Pradesh to the southeast; and Gujarat to the southwest.

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History

Before the formation of the Republic of India, the territory of present-day Girw tehsil was part of the former Udaipur State. [3] With the formation of the United State of Rajasthan (precursor to the state of Rajasthan) in 1948, the new district of Udaipur was constituted which included the territory of present-day Badgaon tehsil. [3]

Udaipur State

The Udaipur State, also known as Mewar State, was an independent state in northwestern India prior to the formation of the Indian Republic.

Until 2012, Girwa tehsil included the area of present-day Badgaon tehsil as well. As part of administrative reorganization in 2012, Badgaon tehsil was carved out of Girwa tehsil. [4] [5]

Geography

Girwa tehsil consists of 220 revenue villages which are organized in 60 gram panchayats. [1] The population of the tehsil is 289,070. [1] The area of the tehsil encompasses two panchayat samities - Girwa and Kurawar. [1]

A Revenue Village is a small administrative region in India, a village with defined borders. One revenue village may contain many hamlets. Each revenue village is headed by a Village Administrative Officer(VAO).

A gram panchayat or village panchayat is the only grassroots-level of panchayati raj formalised local self-governance system in India at the village or small-town level, and has a sarpanch as its elected head.

52 villages of Girwa tehsil that are in the vicinity of the city of the Udaipur urban area are subject to the jurisdiction urban planning policies of the Udaipur Urban Improvement Trust. [6] [7]

An Urban Improvement Trust is a type of statutory body in the state of Rajasthan, India, constituted for the purpose of promoting urban development. The power to create Urban Improvement Trusts was provided by the The Rajasthan Urban Improvement Act, 1959.

The annual average rainfall in Girwa tehsil is 608 mm, with an average of 32 rainy days per year. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Gram panchayat/ward-war jansankhya evam parivaro ki sankhya ka vivran. Government of Rajasthan. 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  2. 1 2 District Census Handbook Udaipur PART XII-A (PDF). Directorate of Census Operations. 2011. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  3. 1 2 District Census Handbook Udaipur, Village and Town Wise Primary Census Abstract (PDF). Directorate of Census Operations. 2011.
  4. ↑ Notification F.33(81)(4)(1) Various/CTAD/2018/19494-502 (PDF). Government of Rajasthan. 5 June 2018. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  5. ↑ "Badgaon bani tehsil". Udaipur News. 18 June 2012. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  6. ↑ Udaipur ke adhighoshit nagriya kshetra mein sthit gram panchayat evam panchayat samiti ki suchi yathavidyaman mah agast 2016 (PDF). City Development Office Udaipur. 2016. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  7. ↑ Udaipur Urban Area Map 2031. Government of Rajasthan. 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  8. ↑ Singh, O.P.; et al. (2013). Rainfall Profile of Udaipur (PDF). Meteorological Monograph: Hydrology No.15/2013. New Delhi: India Meteorological Department. p. 108.
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