Fatehnagar
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Fatehnagar is a city and a municipality
in Udaipur district
in the state of Rajasthan
, India
.
, Fatehnagar had a population of 19,624. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Fatehnagar has an average literacy rate of 60%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 71%, and female literacy is 48%. In Fatehnagar, 14% of the population is under 6 years of age.
The town is falling under Mavli Tehsil. It has a railway station on Udaipur- Chittaurgarh Section of NW Railway. The town is also well connected by road. The fatehnagar was established by Maharana Fateh Singh of Mewar to provide a railway station to near by town named Sanwar. The town has a MANDI and mainly deals in groundnuts, soya. It is 52 km from Udaipur and 65 km from Chaittaurgarh. Many former princely thikanas are loacted around Fatehnagar namely Sanwar, Kankrawa, Tana and Akola.
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 Udaipur district
Udaipur district
Udaipur District is one of the 33 districts of Rajasthan state in western India. The historic city of Udaipur is the administrative headquarters of the district....
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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Demographics
India censusCensus
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, Fatehnagar had a population of 19,624. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Fatehnagar has an average literacy rate of 60%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 71%, and female literacy is 48%. In Fatehnagar, 14% of the population is under 6 years of age.
The town is falling under Mavli Tehsil. It has a railway station on Udaipur- Chittaurgarh Section of NW Railway. The town is also well connected by road. The fatehnagar was established by Maharana Fateh Singh of Mewar to provide a railway station to near by town named Sanwar. The town has a MANDI and mainly deals in groundnuts, soya. It is 52 km from Udaipur and 65 km from Chaittaurgarh. Many former princely thikanas are loacted around Fatehnagar namely Sanwar, Kankrawa, Tana and Akola.