Bikaner district

Bikaner District is a district of the state of Rajasthan in western India. The historic city of Bikaner is the district headquarters. The district is located in Bikaner Division along with the three other districts of Anupgarh, Sri Ganganagar and Hanumangarh.

This article is about the district. For its eponymous headquarters, see Bikaner.

Bikaner district
District of Rajasthan
Clockwise from top-left: Junagarh Fort, Karni Mata Temple, Thar Desert, Devikund Sagar, Bhandasar Jain Temple
Location of Bikaner district in Rajasthan
Location of Bikaner district in Rajasthan
Country India
StateRajasthan
DivisionBikaner
HeadquartersBikaner
Area
 • Total30,247 km2 (11,678 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total2,363,937
 • Density78/km2 (200/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+05:30 (IST)
Websitebikaner.rajasthan.gov.in/content/raj/bikaner/en/home.html

Geography
Rajasthan Canal near Chhattargarh, Rajasthan (India)
Rajasthan Canal (Indira Gandhi Canal) passing through Thar desert near Chhatargarh Bikaner district

The district is bounded by Ganganagar district to the north, Hanumangarh district to the northeast, Churu district to the east, Nagaur district to the southeast, Jodhpur district to the south, Jaisalmer district to the southwest, and Punjab Province of Pakistan to the northwest.

Bikaner district lies in the Thar Desert. The Indira Gandhi Canal, also known as the Rajasthan Canal, runs through the district from northeast to southwest, providing irrigation water for the district.

In October, 2020 an international group of researchers found a lost river that ran through the central Thar Desert ; 1,72,000 years ago.[1]

Climate
Climate data for Bikaner
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average high °C (°F) 23.0
(73.4)		 25.5
(77.9)		 31.8
(89.2)		 38.2
(100.8)		 41.7
(107.1)		 41.6
(106.9)		 37.8
(100.0)		 36.6
(97.9)		 36.7
(98.1)		 36.2
(97.2)		 30.7
(87.3)		 25.3
(77.5)		 33.8
(92.8)
Average low °C (°F) 5.6
(42.1)		 8.8
(47.8)		 15.0
(59.0)		 22.1
(71.8)		 26.8
(80.2)		 28.8
(83.8)		 27.7
(81.9)		 26.8
(80.2)		 24.7
(76.5)		 19.1
(66.4)		 12.1
(53.8)		 6.9
(44.4)		 18.7
(65.7)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 5
(0.2)		 7
(0.3)		 10
(0.4)		 7
(0.3)		 31
(1.2)		 46
(1.8)		 106
(4.2)		 71
(2.8)		 34
(1.3)		 4
(0.2)		 3
(0.1)		 1
(0.0)		 325
(12.8)
Average precipitation days 0.8 1.0 1.5 0.9 2.6 3.2 6.6 5.6 3.0 0.6 0.3 0.5 26.6
Source: HKO

Administrative set-up

Bikaner district has eight sub-divisions called tehsils: Bikaner, Nokha, Loonkaransar, Shri Dungargarh, Kolayat, and Pugal. There are two sub-tehsils: Bajju is in Kolayat and Mahajan is in Loonkaransar.

There are 1498 villages and 290 gram panchayats.[2] There is one municipal corporation (Bikaner) and six municipal councils: Deshnok, Nokha, Dungargarh, Khajuwala, Loonkaransar and Napasar. The collector and district magistrate (DM) of Bikaner is Nimit Mehta[3] and additional magistrate is Sunita Chaudhary.[4]

Demographics
Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1901216,478—    
1911236,708+0.90%
1921228,562−0.35%
1931271,449+1.73%
1941360,968+2.89%
1951395,462+0.92%
1961511,317+2.60%
1971665,439+2.67%
1981973,800+3.88%
19911,381,201+3.56%
20011,902,110+3.25%
20112,363,937+2.20%
Source:[5]
Religions in Bikaner district (2011)[6]
Religion Percent
Hinduism
 
 87.71%
Islam
 
 9.97%
Jainism
 
 1.31%
Sikhism
 
 0.85%
Other or not stated
 
 0.16%

According to the 2011 census Bikaner district has a population of 2,363,937, roughly equal to the nation of Latvia or the US state of New Mexico.[7][8] This gives it a ranking of 190th in India (out of a total of 640). The district is 30,247.90 km2 (11,678.78 sq mi). The district has a population density of 78 inhabitants per square kilometre (200/sq mi). Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 41.42%. Bikaner has a sex ratio of 903 females for every 1,000 males, and a literacy rate of 65.92%. 33.86% of the population lives in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 20.88% and 0.33% of the population respectively.[9]

Languages

Languages of Bikaner District (2011)[10]

  Rajasthani (83.05%)
  Hindi (6.82%)
  Marwari (5.86%)
  Punjabi (1.27%)
  Sindhi (0.98%)
  Others (2.02%)

At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 81.09% of the population spoke Rajasthani, 14.94% Marwari, 2.05% Hindi, 1.71% Urdu and 0.98% Sindhi as their first language.[10]

See also

References
  1. "Lost River that flowed through That desert 172k years ago". Wion News.
  2. Bikaner-Rajasthan. "Blocks/ Tehsils/ Panchayats". bikaner.rajasthan.gov.in. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  3. "Nimit Mehta IAS (Nimit Mehta IAS) | Patrika News". patrika.com/. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  4. "Sunita Chaudhary RAS transferred as Addl Collector & ADM (City), Bikaner | Indian Bureaucracy is an Exclusive News Portal". 29 October 2019. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  5. Decadal Variation In Population Since 1901
  6. "Table C-01 Population By Religion - Rajasthan". census.gov.in. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
  7. US Directorate of Intelligence. "Country Comparison:Population". Archived from the original on 13 June 2007. Retrieved 1 October 2011. Latvia 2,204,708 July 2011 est.
  8. "2010 Resident Population Data". U. S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 1 January 2011. Retrieved 30 September 2011. New Mexico - 2,059,179
  9. "District Census Handbook 2011 - Bikaner" (PDF). Census of India. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
  10. "Table C-16 Population by Mother Tongue: Rajasthan". censusindia.gov.in. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
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