Social,
Environmental & Economic Sustainability
Our analysis of the rank of the district
Sex Ratio Rank : 104 (Rank one is least sex ratio
- Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : A (HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Backwardness : 417
Disability : 338 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 238 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Water : Flouride in Groundwater above permissible limits
Challenges of the district : Our research with local communities
The literacy rate is very low as compared to other
districts. Government should make provisions to bring the literacy
rate up.
Roads are poorly maintained. Gutters overflow and it stinks all
day.
Stray cattle roam on the main road freely, posing a threat to the
motorist.
We suffer from frequent load shedding.
Women and young girls are not very safe in this district. They cannot
roam alone late in the evening.
Brief About Bhiwani District
HISTORY OF THE DISTRICT AS AN
ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT AS A PART OF HISAR
The first record of the administrative division of the
district is found in Ain-i-Akbri.1 Much of the area lying in the
present Hisar district was covered by mahals of Agroha, Ahroni,
Barwala, Bhattu, Tohana, Hisar, Fatehabad and Hansi.The mahals formed
part of Hisar Feroza Sarkar of the Delhi Subah. With the decline
of the Mughal empire, the tract comprising Fatehabad district came
under the control of Marathas. The whole of Delhi territory of which
the tract formed part, was ceded by the Marathas to the British
in 1810.
The Delhi territory was divided into two districts, Delhi, directly
under the Resident and the outlying district including Hansi,
Hisar, Sirsa, Rohtak Panipat and Rewari under the immediate charge
of an Assistant- to the Resident. Again in 1819, Delhi territory
was divided into 3 districts namely ; the central which included
Delhi, southern district comprising Rewari etc. and northwestern
district comprising Panipat, Hansi, Hisar, Sirsa and Rohtak. In
1820 the north-western district was sub-divided into 2 separate
districts, the northern and the western.The western district included
Bhiwani, Hansi, Hisar and Sirsa and its headquarters were at Hansi.In
1824, Rohtak which had previously been under the western district
was constituted into a separate district to which Bhiwani was
transferred.The headquarters of the district was shifted from
Hansi to Hisar in 1832.'fhe district was then divided into 4 tahsils
of Hisar, Fatehabad, Hansi and Tosham.In 1837, Ratia and Tohana
parganas were added to the Hisar district and were formed into
a separate tahsil of Tohana.The Sirsa tract was detached in 1837
from the Hisar district and placed under a separate officer styled
as the Superintendent of Bhatiana.The pargana of Darba and the
pargana of Rori were transfeffed to Bhatiana in 1838 and 1847
respectively.In 1852, the pargana of Ratia was transferred from
Tohana tahsil to Fatehabad tahsil and Barwala pargana was detached
from Hisar tahsit and was formed into a separate tahsil of Barwala
along with Tohana.
The whole of Delhi territory alongwith districts of Bhatiana
and Hisar were transfeffed to the Punjab in 1858 and the district
of Bhatiana was re-named as Sirsa.
In 1861, Bhiwani tahsil was detached from Rohtak and added to
Hisar district.' The Tosham tahsil was abolished and added to
Bhiwani tahsil in the same year. The ffisar district gained 24
villages from Meham-Bhiwant tahsil of Rohtak district ; 18 villages
including the town of Bhiwani were added to the Bhiwani tahsil
and 6 villages to the Hansi tahsil. Besides, 5 villages confiscated
from Nawab of Jhaijar and 12 villages received from the Maharaja
of Jind, were added to Bhiwani tahsil and Barwala tahsil respectively.
ORIGIN OF THE NAME OF THE DISTRICT
The district derives its name from its headquarters
town Fatehabad The town was founded by Firuz Shah Tughlak in the
14th century. He named it after his son Fateh Khan, as Fatehabad.The
Fatehabad district was carved out of Hisar district on 15-07-1997.
Mr.P.C.Bidhan was the first Deputy Commissioner and Mr.Manoj Yadava
was the first Superintendent of Police
Geographical Profile
District Fatehabad is located in the south western
part of Haryana. It is surrounded by Punjab in North, district
Hisar in south, district Jind in East and Rajasthan and district
Sirsa in the West. The geographical area of the district is 2520
sq.km. which is 5.4 % of the state share.
Topography
The district Fatehabad is an alluvial plain of Indo-Gangetic
basin. There is no perennial river flowing through the district
only a seasonal river i.e. Ghaggar is flowing through Ratia and
Jakhal. Bhakra and Western Yamuna are two main canals which irrigate
most part of the district
Climate
The climate of the district is of tropical type with
intensively hot summer and cool winter, with a temperature of
47 in June and 2 C in December and January. The average rainfall
of the district is 400 mm.
