Fazilka district is one of the 22 district

District

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s in the state of Punjab in North-West Republic of India. It has 314 revenue villages.

Fazilka

Fazilka

Fazilka is a city and a municipal council and 22nd newest district in the state of Punjab, India and recently declared as District on July 27, 2011 consisting three subdivisions Fazilka, Jalalabad and Abohar besides three sub-tehsils Arniwala Sheikh Suban, Sito Guno and Khuian Sarwar.- History...

 city is the capital of the district.

History

Fazilka was announced as the 21st district of Punjab by Government of Punjab (India)

Government of Punjab (India)

The Government of Punjab also known as the State Government of Punjab , or locally as State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Punjab and its 20 districts...

, Before that Fazilka was included in Firozpur district

Firozpur District

Ferozepur district is one of the twenty two th districts in the state of Punjab in North-West Republic of India.It comprises an area of 11,142 km². The surface is level, with the exception of a few sand-hills in the south and south-east...

Location

It is located next to the border with Pakistan, the border being to its west. It has the district of Firozpur

Firozpur

Firozpur is a city on the banks of the Sutlej River in Firozpur District, Punjab, India, founded by Sultan Firoz Shah Tughlaq , a Muslim ruler of the Tughlaq Dynasty who reigned over the Sultanate of Delhi from 1351 to 1388.The Manj Rajputs say the town was named after their chief, a Rajput of...

 to its north, Sri Muktsar Sahib to its east and 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...

 to the south and Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

 to its west.It was situated by fazal den. It was called Bangla.

Geography

It has extreme climate, with the summers being very hot and the winters very cold. The River Sutlej

Sutlej

The Sutlej River is the longest of the five rivers that flow through the historic crossroad region of Punjab in northern India and Pakistan. It is located north of the Vindhya Range, south of the Hindu Kush segment of the Himalayas, and east of the Central Sulaiman Range in Pakistan.The Sutlej...

 runs through the district and moves over to the Pakistan side through the Indo-Pakistani border.

Demographics

As of 2001[update] India census,[1] Fazilka had a population of 67,424. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Fazilka has an average literacy rate of 68%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 72%, and female literacy is 62%. In Fazilka, 13% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Administration

Dr Basant Garg IAS is the first Deputy Commissioner/District Magistrate of the Fazilka District.He is an IAS Officer of Punjab Cadre 2004 Batch.He Has Earlier Remained the Additional Deputy Commisioner Ferozepur And Fazilka and Has worked as SDM Ropar And Muktsar and also as Assistant Commissioner in Amritsar.Mr Maan Has been Posted as New SDM cum ADC of The newly Created district.
The district is administratively subdivided into the following tehsil

Tehsil

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• Fazilka
  Fazilka
  Fazilka is a city and a municipal council and 22nd newest district in the state of Punjab, India and recently declared as District on July 27, 2011 consisting three subdivisions Fazilka, Jalalabad and Abohar besides three sub-tehsils Arniwala Sheikh Suban, Sito Guno and Khuian Sarwar.- History...
  
  
• Abohar
  Abohar
  Abohar is a city and a municipal committee in Fazilka district in the state of Punjab, India,) located on the Ganganagar–Delhi railway route, about north of Ganganagar and about south of Fazilka. This city is also known as the "California of Punjab" for its rich soil, good irrigation sources,...
  
  
• Jalalabad