Rajgarh (Rajasthan)

This article is about a city in Rajasthan, India. For other uses, see Rajgarh.

Rajgarh (Sadulpur) Rajgarh
town
Nickname(s): Sadulpur
Rajgarh (Sadulpur) Show map of Rajasthan Rajgarh (Sadulpur) Show map of India Location in Rajasthan, India
Coordinates: 28°38′N 75°23′E / 28.64°N 75.38°E / 28.64; 75.38Coordinates: 28°38′N 75°23′E / 28.64°N 75.38°E / 28.64; 75.38
Country	India
State	Rajasthan
District	Churu
Established	1823
Government
• Type	Federal Republic
• Body	Government of India
• Member of Parliament	Rahul Kaswan
• Member of legislative assembly	Manoj singh
Elevation	479 m (1,572 ft)
Population (2011)
• Total	59,193
Languages
• Official	Hindi
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN	331023
Telephone code	01559
Vehicle registration	RJ10
Nearest city	Hisar, Bhiwani, Rewari (Haryana); Sikar, Pilani, Jaipur (Rajasthan); New Delhi
Lok Sabha Constituency	Churu
Vidhan Sabha Constituency	Sadulpur

Rajgarh (Rajasthani: राजगढ़ ) is a town and tehsil in the Churu district of northern part of Rajasthan state in India. The railway station in Rajgarh is known as Sadulpur. To distinguish Rajgarh from places with similar names, Sadulpur has become a synonym of town's name in recent times. It is close to the Haryana border. Sadulpur Railway Junction lies on Bikaner-Churu-Sadulpur-Delhi, Hisar-Sadulpur-Loharu-Rewari and Hisar-Sadulpur-Churu railway routes.

Description

Rajgarh or Sadulpur is a town and tehsil in Churu district in Rajasthan. Rajgarh is the birthplace of Lakshmi Niwas Mittal, of ArcelorMittal and Bimal Jalan, an economist and former Governor of Reserve Bank of India.^[1] Devendra jhajharia (gold medalist in Paralympics) ,krishna poonia are also from rajgarh.

Overview

Rajgarh is a Municipality city in district of Churu, Rajasthan. The Rajgarh city is divided into 30 wards for which elections are held every 5 years. The Rajgarh Municipality has population of 59,193 of which 30,710 are males while 28,483 are females as per report released by Census India 2011.

Population of children with age of 0-6 is 8122 which is 13.72% of total population of Rajgarh (M). In Rajgarh Municipality, Female Sex Ratio is of 927 against state average of 928. Moreover, Child Sex Ratio in Rajgarh is around 880 compared to state average of 888. Literacy rate of Rajgarh city is 72.72% higher than state average of 66.11%. In Rajgarh, Male literacy is around 83.30% while female literacy rate is 61.41%.

Rajgarh Municipality has total administration over 9,902 houses to which it supplies basic amenities like water and sewerage. It is also authorized to build roads within Municipality limits and impose taxes on properties coming under its jurisdiction.^[2]

History

Sadulpur is named after Maharaja Sadul Singh of Bikaner. It was part of Jangladesh where Ŗathore(Rajput) & Poonia Jats had ruled. The Great fort was built in 1766 by Maharja Gaj Singh bahadur on name of his son Raj Singh Bahadur of Bikaner. Most of Muslims migrated from Narhar during construction of Fort.It was supervised by them, they had fought war with local tribes and defeated them. Local tribes were not in favor of construction of fort. Bikaner ruler was very happy with this brave victory.

Rajgarh Religion Data 2015
Religion			Percent
Hindus			59.80%
Muslims			39.63%
Distribution of religions †Includes Sikhs (0.5%), Christian (0.6%), Jain (0.42%), Others (0.1%) ^[3]

Rajgarh Work Profile

Out of total population, 19,699 were engaged in work or business activity. Of this 15,286 were males while 4,413 were females. In census survey, worker is defined as person who does business, job, service, and cultivator and labour activity. Of total 19699 working population, 88.96% were engaged in Main Work while 11.04% of total workers were engaged in Marginal Work. A large number of skilled & unskilled laborers from Sadulpur are working abroad in places such as Dubai, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. ^[4]

Geography

Rajgarh is located at28°22′N 75°14′E / 28.36°N 75.24°E / 28.36; 75.24.^[5] Sadulpur railway station has elevation of 239 metres (784 ft).

Climate

The region has record temperatures ranging from below freezing point in the winter to over 50 °C in summer. The District of Churu is also the hottest zone in the country.

Education

The town has a post-graduate college (Mohta PG College) affiliated to University of Bikaner, Balika Mahavidalya and Government College, also affiliated to Maharaja ganga Singh University, Bikaner. There are several higher secondary, secondary and primary schools in Rajgarh, some of them are Mohta public School, Senior High Secondary School, Baal Mandir School. ^[6]

Transportation

Roads

Rajgarh is connected to Bikaner, Jaipur, Delhi and other cities by road. It is about 240 km from Delhi by NH-10 via Rohtak, Hisar (170 km), then needs to take NH-65 on Hisar-Jodhpur Road (70 km). Shorter route from Delhi is via Rohtak, Bhiwani, Bahal (around 210 km). The National Highway No-65 passing through Rajgarh via Dokwa, Dudhwa Khara, Churu, Fatehpur, Salasar etc. A bypass road attaches to NH65 to Taranagar, Bhadra, Hisar road. The National Highway No-709 Ext. also ending at Rajgarh.

Rail

Rajgarh is situated on the main Delhi-Bikaner, Hisar-Jodhpur and Sriganganagar-Jaipur rail link. The railway junction of Rajgarh town is known as Sadulpur named after Maharaja Sadul Singh of Bikaner. It takes around 3–4 hours from Delhi (en route you would cross major stations like Gurgaon, Rewari, Mahendragarh, Loharu). Till 2011 the route had metre gauge track that was converted to 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gauge. Several new trains now connect Rajgarh and Sadulpur to major cities Delhi, Bikaner, Jaipur, Lucknow, Degana, Sri Ganganagar, Hisar, Hanumangarh, Mumbai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Howrah, Jammu Tawi, ludhiana,and Pathankot.

Airports

The nearest airports are New Delhi Airport and Jaipur Airport.

Economy

The town has a market (mandi) for commodity trading. Trading of commodity products is always a hot business for the locals in the small town. The m/s "jeth mal ganpat rai" is the oldest firm in sadulpur Sadulpur is also famous for delicious Sweets Common Sweets available here are ceeta, Kaju katli, milk cake made from milk (Mawa). The famous sweets shop is known as Poonam chand Modi, And some big market like Madina market, Qureshi market, seetla bazar (market). patanjali chikitsalya,

Important places

Dadrewa, birthplace of Gogaji
Shree Karni Mata temple (chainpura bada)
Pilani, a nearby town, birthplace of industrialist Ghanshyam Das Birla and home to prestigious Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani and CEERI(central electronics & electricals reasach institute)govt. of India.
Peer Aana Falsa, visiting place of Muslim Peer
Baba Phool Nath Temple NAWA.

Notable people

Lakshmi Mittal, steel tycoon born in tehsil Sadulpur (Rajgarh) of Churu district^[7]
Bimal Jalan, a former Governor of India's Reserve Bank and Rajya Sabha member
Captain Sajjan Singh Malik, Indian Army Special Force, awardee of PosthumousKirti Chakra^[8]
Anupam Mittal, founder & CEO of People Group, popularly known for the matchmaking portal Shaadi.com
Devendra Jhajharia, Paralympic javelin thrower, only Indian to win two gold medals at Paralympics.^[9]
Krishna Poonia, a Commonwealth Games gold medalist and renowned athlete

References

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