Chhatargarh is a tehsil in the Bikaner district of Rajasthan, India.[1] Most of the area is covered by agricultural land and is irrigated by IGNL canal.

It is a subdivision and situated approximately 87 km away from district headquarter Bikaner.[2] It comes under Khajuwala assembly and Bikaner parliamentary constituency.

The postal Code is 334021.

A vast majority of the population speaks Bagri language which is a dialect of Rajasthani, with a significant minority proportion of population speaks Hindi and Marwari languages.

Religion

Hinduism and Islam are practised by the majority of people with Sikhism being third most followed religion. A small number of Budhhist and Christians population is also present in the tehsil. The table below shows the religious demographics of the tehsil according to the Census 2011.[3]

Religion-wise Population - Chhatargarh Tehsil
Religions Total population Percentage
Hindu 59,672 72.34%
Sikh 1,311 1.59%
Muslim 21,323 25.85%
Christian 76 0.09%
Buddhist 42 0.05%
Jain 17 0.02%
Other Religion 0 0%
No Religion Specified 47 0.06%
Total 82488 100%

Literacy rate

Contents Total Male Female
Children (Age 0-6) 14,790 7,694 7,096
Literacy 52.37% 51.94% 33.09%
Scheduled Caste 23,651 12,487 11,164
Scheduled Tribe 228 122 106
Illiterate 47,033 20,803 26,230

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