Social,
Environmental & Economic Sustainability
Our analysis of the rank of the district
Backwardness : 435
Sex Ratio Rank : 113
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : C
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 366 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 410 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Challenges of the district : Our research
with local communities
Fatehabad is backward and primitive district of
Haryana. The quality of education is very poor. There are no technical
or polytechnic schools / colleges in Fatehbad. Government missionaries
are very indecisive. Do they really want to help the common man
is a big question.
Health infrastructure is yet to develop. The funds have not yet
reached the grass root level. If the funds were used wisely and
properly; HIV, dengue, TB would have not spread so widely.
Brief About Fatehabad District
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.
'The 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. 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
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.
