Bichhiwara

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Village
Bichhiwara Location in Rajasthan, India Show map of Rajasthan Bichhiwara Bichhiwara (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 23°47′12″N 073°31′23″E
Country	India
State	Rajasthan
District	Dungarpur district
Tehsil	Bichiwara
Languages
• Official	Hindi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	314801
ISO 3166 code	RJ-IN

Bichhiwara is a panchayat village[1] in Rajasthan in western India.[2][3] Administratively, Bichhiwara is under Bichiwara Tehsil of Dungarpur District in Rajasthan.[3] Bichhiwara is the administrative headquarters for its tehsil. The village of Bichhiwara is 11 km by road northeast of the border with Aravalli District, Gujarat, along National Highway 8 and 22 km by road west of the town of Dungarpur, the district capital.[4] The nearest railway station is Bechhiwara railway station (BHWA),[5] 1.3 km by road west of the village.[6][7]

There are three villages in the gram panchayat: Bichhiwara, Devpura and Nayagaon Punali.[3]

Demographics

At the 2001 census, the village of Bichhiwara had 4000 inhabitants, with 2,050 males (51.2%) and 1,950 females (48.8%).[8] By the 2011 census it had grown to 4,836 inhabitants, with 2,485 males (51.4%) and 2,351 females (48.6%).[9][10]

Notes and references

1. 2011 Village Panchayat Code = 33407, "Reports of National Panchayat Directory: Village Panchayat Names of Bichiwara, Dungarpur, Rajasthan". Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India. Archived from the original on 17 April 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
2. 2001 Census Village code = 03297300, "2001 Census of India: List of Villages by Tehsil: Rajasthan" (PDF). Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. p. 654. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 November 2011.
3. 2011 Census Village code = 097540, "Reports of National Panchayat Directory: List of Census Villages mapped for: Bichhiwara Gram Panchayat, Bichiwara, Dungarpur, Rajasthan". Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India. Archived from the original on 17 April 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
4. "District Wise Health Facilities: District Map: Dungarpur District". National Health Mission (NHM), Government of Rajastha. Archived from the original on 19 March 2015.
5. "Bechhiwara Railway Station Timeline - Railway Enquiry". indiarailinfo.com. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
6. "Location Map of Bechhiwara Railway Station". Maps of India.
7. "BHWA/Bechhiwara". India Rail. Archived from the original on 7 May 2013.
8. "Census 2001 Population Finder: Rajasthan: Dungarpur: Dungarpur: Bichhiwara". Office of The Registrar General & Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. Archived from the original on 17 April 2015.
9. Census 2011 Code 097537 "Census 2011 Population Finder: Rajasthan: Dungarpur: Dungarpur: Bichhiwara". Office of The Registrar General & Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. Archived from the original on 17 April 2015.
10. "Bichhiwara Population - Dungarpur, Rajasthan". Census 2011. Archived from the original on 17 April 2015.

External links

• "Official Website of Dungarpur District". Archived from the original on 18 December 2014.