Degana
Degana is a town municipality and headquarter to Sub-Division and Tehsil located in Nagaur district of Rajasthan, India.
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  Degana Location in Rajasthan, India  Degana Degana (India) | |
| Coordinates: 26.895052°N 74.322166°E | |
| Country | India |
| State | Rajasthan |
| District | Nagaur |
| Elevation | 353 m (1,158 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 34,315 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Hindi |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 341503 |
| Telephone code | 911587 |
| Vehicle registration | RJ 21 |
| Nearest city | Ajmer |
| Sex ratio | 878/1000 ♂/♀ |
| Literacy | 65% |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Rajsamand |
| Vidhan Sabha constituency | Vijaypal singh mirdha |
| Website | www |
Degana Railway Junction was made at a small village in the pre-independence era on the Jaipur-Jodhpur railway track solely for the reason of having a railway-node for better operational control as there was a stretch of more than 300 km without any station in-between. With the passage of time, a Town came into being by drawing more and more dwellers and houses in last 50 years nearer to the railway station owing to better transport connectivity to more significant city centers like Jaipur, Jodhpur and Bikaner. The city now has headquarters for administrative units of the sub-division. Degana is 44 km From Makrana Railway station and 15 km from Gachhipura Railway station.
Demography
As of 2011 India census, Degana had a population of 34,315. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Degana has an average literacy rate of 70%, higher than the national average of 59.5%, male literacy is 75% and female literacy is 51%.
Mineral
Wolfram (Wolframite) deposits are found in Renwat Hill at Degana. In this mineral the tungstate of iron and manganese occurs, in the veins and lodes of granite and philites. A reserve of the order of 3,400 tones has been established. Until 1994 Hindustan Zinc (Vedanta Group) was mining here in collaboration with government of Rajasthan, but as the depth of mineral is now very deep it is not that economical to mine mineral from this reservoir so they decided to stop mining for a certain time and started to import.
Religious sites
The village has the temples of Ambe Mata mandir soni bhawan, Shitala Mata, Karni Mata, Chaumunda Mata, Charbhuja, Deonarayan, Shree Venkatesh Satyanarayan Temple, Temple was inaugurated on 13 May 1994 to fulfill the dream of Late Jainarayanji Karwa By his son Shri Sriniwasji Karwa. The idols are Lord Venkatesh, Lord Satyanarayan, Goddess Laxmi and Lord Hanunman. Main functions are on the Anniversary of Temple, Shiv Mandir, Gaytari Mandir, Veer Teja ji Mandir, Dharmshala hanuman mandir etc. There is an annual cattle-fair in village from Rajathani month Asoja Krishna 1 to 10 Dashahara. Village also has got three Mosques, One Eidgaah for Muslims. Also Muslim Dargaah (Kasnau Baba - Ilahibaksh baba).
Geography
Degana is located at 26.895052°N 74.322166°E. It has an average elevation of 353 metres (1161 ft).
Education
There is a Govt. Senior Secondary School with Science, Commerce and Arts faculties situated at Degana-Chandaroon Road. School was developed by Shri Bhanwar Lal Karwa, Chandarun and Hon'ble Citizens of Degana Junction and Chandaroon Village.
Degana city has Girls school up to Senior classes and Girls school attached with Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University for ARTS Subject situated at Sadar Bazar, Deagna Junction.
Some Schools of Degana Region:
- Dayanand bal niketan Sr. Sec. school
- Veer teja school
- Vivekanand sr school
- Blue rose school
- Dayanand public school,JAOLA (ENGLISH MEDIUM SCHOOL)
- Mayur school degana
College & defense academy in degana
- Dayanand college degana
- Dayanand defense academy , degana
- Marwar college, nagaur fatak, degana
- Sharada Mahavidyalaya offering science and Arts course.
- JaiShree College is a private degree college
Transport
Degana is a town populated around a railway junction on Jaipur-Jodhpur Broad-gauge line of North-Westorn Railway. Thence it has good connectivity to Jaipur (165 km), Jodhpur(149 km), Delhi (473 km) and Bikaner (218 km) through the railway network. Its location is Latitude 26° 53' 45" N and Longitude 74° 19' 15" E.
Another railway line from Degana Junction to Ratangarh now upgraded to Broad-gauge has also elevated the importance of this town Station. This line runs through Deedwana, Ladnun, Sujangarh and joins the Bikaner-Delhi Railway line at Ratangarh. Direct trains are available on a daily and weekly basis to Mumbai, Chennai, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, Bikaner, Kota, Delhi, Lucknow, Kanpur, Allahabad, Bhopal, Nagpur, Varanasi, Puri and Kolkata.
Degana is also connected to nearby towns by 1 National Highway, 2 State Highways and many less-maintained MDR (Major District Roads) but "sadly" with negligible presence of State Transport services on this network. The city falls on midway on the State Highway from Ajmer to Nagaur SH-60 and another State Highway Ajmer to Deedwana SH-59. Recently a new National Highway Link NH-65A is constructed through this town. It is an alternate route of existing NH-65 [Pali to Ambala]. The new Link NH-65A will divert from Main NH-65 at Nimbi Jodha near Ladnun and run through Banthari, Khatu, Sanju, Langod, Degana, Idwa etc. It will be a much shorter route towards Pali for all traffic from Haryana.
Private Buses runs from Degana to Ajmer, Nagaur, Deedwana, Merta, Makrana, Parbatsar and Jodhpur but with very unpleasant service and an oligopolistic system of bus operators running on approx hourly basis connecting most of the villages of this Sub-division.
Politics and governance
Nagaur district has the oldest history of Panchyati Raj institutions in independent India as they were inaugurated by the then Prime Minister Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru on 2 October 1959. And Degana being the first among few Panchayats which had elections. Degana was then part of a very large but single Gram Panchayat of 19 villages.Devaram Tholiya is the founder of lokniti in this area.
Jajunda had a long political and social influence ever since until his demise on 29 August 2007. During last 12 years Kana Ram Jajunda did lot of organizing work to spread the message and vision of his political ideology since he joined Bharatiya Janata Party in 1996.
In 1996, BJP recorded its first victory on Nagaur MP seat and then grew from strength to strength.
The Degana Assembly Constituency is representsted in Rajasthan Vidhan Sabha by Ajay Singh Kilak of Bharatiya Janata Party who defeated Richhpal Singh Mirdha 4 times MLA and stalwart of Indian National Congress by a narrow margin of 1174 votes in 2008 Assembly elections and again went on to defeat Richhpal Singh Mirdha this time decisively by a margin of 14482 votes in the 2013 General Elections. Ajay Singh Kilak secured more than 53% votes in these elections. Richhpal Singh Mirdha had won four times from Degana constituency (1990–2008).
Degana assembly constituency now forms part of newly created Parliamentary Constituency Rajsamand represented by Hari Om Singh Rathore of Bhartiya Janta Party since last General Elections to the Lok Sabha in 2014.
list of representatives of degana.
- Candidate Party Year
- GAURI PUNIA INC (1957)
- GAURI PUNIA RRP (1962)
- GAURI PUNIA INC (1967)
- RAM RAGHUNATH INC (1972)
- RAM RAGHUNATH INC (1977)
- RAM RAGHUNATH INC(U (1980)
- KALYAN SINGH JP (1985)
- Richhpal Singh Mirdha Janta Dal (1990)
- Richhpal Singh Mirdha INC (1993)
- Richhpal Singh Mirdha Independent (1998)
- Richhpal Singh Mirdha INC (2003)
- Ajay Singh Kilak BJP (2008)
- Ajay Singh Kilak BJP (2013)
- Vijay pal mirdha INC (2018)
The city has sub-division headquarters with SDM, tehsil headquarters with 237+ revenue villages and judicial headquarters with ADJ court.