Mandi Tehsil

Mandi
Tehsil
A view of Mandi from the Western Hills
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Coordinates: 33°47′46″N 74°15′14″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.poonch.nic.in

A view from Eastern Hills

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

Religion in Mandi Tehsil (2011)[2]

  Islam (96.14%)

  Hinduism (2.94%)

  Sikhism (0.43%)

  Christianity (0.15%)

  Buddhism (0.01%)

  Not Stated (0.34%)

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

Air

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

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

The tehsil is connected to other places in Jammu and Kashmir and India by the NH 144A and other intra-district roads.

See also

• Poonch
• Jammu and Kashmir
• Rajouri
• Surankote
• Jammu

References

1. "Administrative Setup in District Poonch". Poonch District. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
2. "Mandi Tehsil Population". Census India. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
3. Lothers & Lothers 2010, p. 2.
4. Shackle 1979, p. 201.

Works cited

• 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.