Bawadi tehsil

Bawadi tehsil is a tehsil in Jodhpur District of Rajasthan state in western India.[2] The tehsil headquarters are in Baori.

Bawadi tehsil
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Coordinates: 26°36′N 073°17′E
Country	India
State	Rajasthan
District	Jodhpur
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
ISO 3166 code	RJ-IN
Vehicle registration	RJ-
Lok Sabha constituency	Pali
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Bhopalgarh[1]

Geography

Bawadi tehsil is one of the eleven tehsils in Jodhpur District. It borders Nagaur District to the north, Bhopalgarh tehsil to the east, Mandor tehsil to the south, and Osian tehsil to the west.[3]

A rare tree elsewhere, the dhauro (Anogeissus sericea var. nummularia), a small brown-barked tree with drooping branches and yellow flowers which has a winged fruit in the spring, has a fine stand of healthy trees in Bawadi Taluk.[4]

History

In 2009 Bawadi tehsil was created out of the western portion of Bhopalgarh tehsil.[3]

Villages

There are twenty-six panchayat villages in Bawadi tehsil.[5]

Notes and references

1. "Parliamentary & Assembly Constituencies wise Polling Stations & Electors" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Rajasthan. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
2. "Administrative Setup". Jodhpur District. Archived from the original on 6 August 2013.
3. Bawadi tehsil is western Bhopalgarh tehsil as shown on the map. "Map:Jodhpur District, Administrative Setup". Jodhpur District. 2007. Archived from the original on 9 April 2009.
4. Kumar, Arun; Rao, S. Rama & Ram, Hardev (2004). "Morphological Diversity in the Genus Anogeissus: A Multipurpose Tree of Rajasthan". The Botanica. New Delhi. 54: 115–120, page 118.
5. "Reports of National Panchayat Directory: Village Panchayat Names of Bawadi, Jodhpur, Rajasthan". Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India. Archived from the original on 17 May 2013.