Mandi Tehsil
Mandi | |
|---|---|
Tehsil | |
 A view of Mandi from the Western Hills | |
  Mandi Location in Jammu and Kashmir, India  Mandi Mandi (India) | |
| Coordinates: 33°47′46″N 74°15′14″E / 33.79611°N 74.25389°E | |
| Country |  India |
| Union Territory |  Jammu and Kashmir |
| District | Poonch |
| Headquarters | Mandi |
| Government | |
| • Type | Tehsil |
| • Body | Tehsildar |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 77,947 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Dogri, English, Hindi, Kashmiri, Urdu |
| • Spoken | Gojri, Kashmiri, Pahari |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 185102 |
| Telephone code | 01965 |
| Vehicle registration | JK-12 |
| Literacy | 58.28% |
| Website | www |
Mandi is a town and a tehsil in the Poonch district of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.[1] Mandi is located in east of the Poonch district, about 171 kilometres (106 mi) from Srinagar and 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) south of the Line of Control with Pakistan. The Ancient Hindu temple Baba Budha Amernath is located here.
Demographics
[edit]The total projected population of Mandi Tehsil is 77,947, with 41,365 males and 36,582 females according to the 2011 census of India. The population includes Gujjars, Bakerwals, Pahari-Pothwari Speakers,[3] which is intermediate between Lahnda and Punjabi.[4] and Kashmiris.
Transportation
[edit]Air
[edit]Poonch Airport is a non-operational airstrip in the district headquarters Poonch. The nearest airport to Mandi is Sheikh ul-Alam International Airport in Srinagar, located 180 kilometres from Mandi.
Rail
[edit]There is no railway connectivity to Mandi. There are plans to construct a Jammu–Poonch line which will connect Jammu with Poonch with railways. The nearest major railway station is Jammu Tawi railway station located 240 kilometres from Mandi.
Road
[edit]The tehsil is connected to other places in Jammu and Kashmir and India by the NH 144A and other intra-district roads.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Administrative Setup in District Poonch". Poonch District. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
- ^ "Mandi Tehsil Population". Census India. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ Lothers & Lothers 2010, p. 2.
- ^ Shackle 1979, p. 201.
Works cited
[edit]- Lothers, Michael; Lothers, Laura (2010). Pahari and Pothwari: a sociolinguistic survey (Report). SIL Electronic Survey Reports. Vol. 2010–012.
- Shackle, Christopher (1979). "Problems of classification in Pakistan Panjab". Transactions of the Philological Society. 77 (1): 191–210. doi:10.1111/j.1467-968X.1979.tb00857.x. ISSN 0079-1636.
