Social,
Environmental & Economic Sustainability
Our analysis of the rank of the district
Backwardness : 385
Sex Ratio Rank : 135 (Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : C (HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 -2006)
Disability : 328 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 318 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Water : Flouride in Groundwater above permissible limits
Challenges of the district : Our research
with local communities
We do not get clean drinking water. Leaking and
structurally defective pipelines cause contamination of drinking
water, which leads to diseases.
Identity cards are not provided properly to the people below
the poverty line (BPL). People who are not poor have also received
the BPL cards. Due to this, the poor folks are deprived of facilities
provided by the government.
The environment protection act is only in papers. Government
is not implementing it properly and the funds are being misused.
Brief About Hanumangarh District
District
Profile
Carved out from Sriganganagar district and formally Created
on 12th day of July, 1994 as 31st district of Rajasthan state.
Hanumangarh district, situated at 29° 5' to 30° 6' North
and 74° 3' to 75º 3' east, shares its boundaries with
Haryana state in the east, Sriganganagar district in the west,
Punjab state in the North and Churu district in the South. The
geographical area of the district is 9656.09 Sq. Km. The climate
of the district is semi-dry, extremely hot during the summer and
extremely cold during winter. The maximum average temperature
remains 18° to 48° and minimum average is 2° to 28°
celcius. The average rainfall during the year is 225 to 300 mm.
The Hanumangarh district also has a significant
place in the ancient history. The remains found at Kalibanga [Pilibanga]
in 1951 reveal that this area was a part of nearly 5000 years
old "INDUS VALLEY" civilization. The remains of human skeleton,
unknown scripts, stamps, coins, utensils, jewellary, toys, statues,
wells, bathrooms, fort, streets, markets etc., found in excavation
tell the story of well developed life style of our ancestors.
Besides Kalibanga, more than 100 other places are also there in
the district where evidences of this old civilization have been
found. The remains found at these places have been kept at Museum
at Kalibanga and National museum at Delhi.
Earlier, Hanumangarh was known as "BHATNER".
In year 1805, emperor Soorat Singh of Bikaner captured BHATNER
after defeating Bhatis and as the day of his victory was Tuesday
(known as the day of god "Hanuman"), he named BHATNER as "HANUMANGARH".
