Sendhwa tehsil explained

Sendhwa Tehsil
Native Name:सेंधवा तहसील
Native Name Lang:hi
Settlement Type:Tehsil
Pushpin Map:India Madhya Pradesh
Pushpin Label Position:right
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Madhya Pradesh
Coordinates:21.695°N 75.0925°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Madhya Pradesh
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Barwani district
Government Type:Panchayat Samiti
Governing Body:Council
Area Footnotes:[1]
Area Total Km2:815.78
Area Rural Km2:815.78
Area Blank1 Title:Under Forest
Population As Of:2011
Population Total:303554
Population Density Km2:auto
Population Density Urban Km2:auto
Population Density Rural Km2:auto
Demographics Type1:Languages
Demographics1 Title1:Official
Demographics1 Info1:Hindi
Timezone1:IST
Utc Offset1:+5:30
Postal Code Type:Postal code (PIN)
Postal Code:451666
Area Code:07281
Registration Plate:MP 46
Blank Name Sec1:No. of Villages
Blank Info Sec1:78
Blank1 Name Sec1:No. of Hamlets
Blank Name Sec2:No. of Gram Panchayats
Iso Code:MP-IN

Sendhwa Tehsil is an administrative subdivision (tehsil or tahsil) in Barwani District, Madhya Pradesh (state) of India. Its headquarters is in the town of Sendhwa. Sendhwa is the biggest revenue generating tehsil in the Barwani District. Sendhwa Tehsil has the highest population of any tehsil in Barwani district.

History

The fort and town of Sendhwa gave their name to the area, that was a tehsil under the

On 15 December 2010, Warla Tehsil was separated from Sendhwa Tehsil.[2]

Geography

Sendhwa Tehsil is southwest of the district headquarters, Barwani. It is bounded by Warla Tehsil to the south, Niwali Tehsil to the east, and Rajpur Tehsil to the north, all of Barwani District, and by Bhagwanpura Tehsil of Khargone District (West Nimar District) to the west.[3]

Settlements

As of the 2011 Census of India, Sendhwa Tehsil had one statutory town (nagar palika), Sendhwa, and seventy-eight villages, one of which was uninhabited.[4]

Economy

The tehsil is primarily agricultural and forest lands. Mechanised farming has only been recently introduced.[5] Cotton is a big crop,[6] as are pulses, such as mung beans and moth beans.[7] Other crops include wheat, sorghum (jowar), maize, millet (kodo-kutki), especially pearl millet (bajra), rapeseed (canola), mustard, and urd and other pulses (gram).

Regular markets are held in the town of Sendhawa and the villages of Chacria (Chachariya Pati), Dhanori, and Zopali (Jhopali, Jopali).[8] The village of Babdd Bhagoriya has a once-a-year market and festival.

The only real industry is cotton processing.

Demographics

Sendhwa Tehsil had 303,554 people as of the 2011 census, not including the 56,485 in the town of Sendhwa; for a total of 360,039.

Notes and references

Notes and References

  1. The 250NaN0 and 56,485 population of the town of Sendhwa were not included as part of the tehsil for census purposes.
  2. News: जुलवानिया-वरला हो सकते हैं बेहतर विकल्प . 14 October 2014 . Nai Dunia (नईदुनिया). hi . https://web.archive.org/web/20150830024918/http://mnaidunia.jagran.com/madhya-pradesh/barwani-julwaniya-rajpur-barwani-204238 . 30 August 2015 . live.
  3. Web site: Tehsil Map of Barwani . Maps of India . https://web.archive.org/web/20150914171903/http://www.mapsofindia.com/maps/madhyapradesh/tehsil/barwani.html . 14 September 2015 . live.
  4. Book: Sinha, Sachin et al., Directorate of Census Operations, Madhya Pradesh . 2015 . District Census Handbook, Barwani, Census of India 2011: Village and Town Wise Primay Census Abstract . Series-24, PART XII-B . 12. https://web.archive.org/web/20150830051212/http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/2324_PART_B_DCHB_BARWANI.pdf . 30 August 2015 . live . .
  5. Pawar, Aarti . Kusumakar, Aruna . amp . 2013 . कृषि मे यंत्रीकरण का ग्रामीण अर्थव्यवस्था पर प्रभाव का अध्ययन (सेंधवा तहसील के विशेष संदर्भ मे) . A Study of the Impact of the Mechanization of Agriculture in a Rural Economy (in reference to Sendhawa Tehsil) . hi . Review of Research Journal . 3 . 2 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150830045920/http://ror.isrj.org/UploadedData/500.pdf . 30 August 2015 . live.
  6. Book: Superintendent of Census Operations . Madhya Pradesh . 1964 . District Census Handbook, Madhya Pradesh, Census of India 1961 . Volume 41 of District Census Handbook . Indore, India . Government of Madhya Pradesh . lxix.
  7. Book: Jain, C. K. . 1988 . Patterns of Agricultural Development in Madhya Pradesh . New Delhi . Northern Book Centre . 116. 978-81-85119-41-0.
  8. Web site: जिले की 9 तहसीलों में लगने वाले हाट-बाजार . hi . Public Relations Department, Government of Madhya Pradesh .