Khindas

Khindas is a village located near Degana in the Nagaur district of Rajasthan, India. The city is situated roughly southeast of 75 km from Nagaur and 14 km from degana, at a junction of State Highways 59 and 60.

Rajputs founded the village about 150 years back.

A Railway Station was made 2 km from Khindas in the pre-independence era on the Jaipur-Jodhpur railway track solely for the reason of having a Railway-Node for better operational control as there was a stretch of more than 30 km without any station in-between. With the passage of time, a city came into being by drawing more and more habitation in the last 50 years around the Railway Station owing to the better connectivity to more significant city centers like Jaipur, Jodhpur and Bikaner.

Politics and governance

As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act, Khindas village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is elected representative of village.

Demographics

Khindas is a small size village located in Degana of Nagaur district, Rajasthan with total 207 families residing. The Khindas village has population of 1061 of which 543 are males while 518 are females as per Population Census 2011.

In Khindas village population of children with age 0-6 is 148 which makes up 13.95% of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Khindas village is 954 which is higher than Rajasthan state average of 928. Child Sex Ratio for the Khindas as per census is 1085, higher than Rajasthan average of 888.

Khindas village has lower literacy rate compared to Rajasthan. In 2011, literacy rate of Khindas village was 63.53% compared to 66.11% of Rajasthan. In Khindas Male literacy stands at 74.79% while female literacy rate was 51.47%.

Castes

Khindas village of Nagaur has substantial population of Schedule Caste. Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 31.01% of total population in Khindas village. The village Khindas currently doesn’t have any Schedule Tribe (ST) population.

The main And Powerful are General caste: Rathore.