Chhabra is a city and a municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 in Baran district

Baran district

Baran District is a district of the state of Rajasthan in western India. The town of Baran is the district headquarters.The district has an area of 6955.4 km², and a population of 1,021,653...

  in the state of Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

, India

India

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.very near to the border of Madhya Pradesh.

Geography

Chhabra is located at 24.67°N 76.83°E. It has an average elevation of 257 metres (1053 feet). Chhabra is connected with broadgauge line and is well connected to Jaipur, Kota and Ahmedabad by Express and Passenger Trains

Demographics

India census

Census

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, Chhabra had a population of 22,795. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Chhabra has an average literacy rate of 60%; with male literacy of 70% and female literacy of 50%. 17% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Thermal Power Plant

Chhabra has a thermal power plant which is operational. The second phase (2 X 250 MW) of the Thermal Power Plant is under Construction. This plant is owned by RRVUNL and as per information available on the web site of RRVUNL the second phase is likely to become operational in December 2011.The proposed capacity of thermal power plant is 2,320 MW.