Mandothi
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Mandothi | |
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village | |
Coordinates: 28°42′23″N 76°49′15″E / 28.7065°N 76.8207°E | |
Country | ![]() |
State | Haryana |
District | Jhajjar District |
Languages | |
• Official | Hindi |
Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
ISO 3166 code | IN-HR |
Vehicle registration | HR |
Nearest city | Bahadurgarh |
Lok Sabha constituency | Rohtak |
Vidhan Sabha constituency | Bahadurgarh |
Website | haryana |
Mandothi is a village in Jhajjar District of Haryana in India.[1] It is about 40 km northwest of New Delhi and an hour's drive from the heart of New Delhi city.
The population of the village consists of about 35,000 people and agriculture is the main occupation. Though the village has electricity, it has proper running water facilities, as is the case in most of the Indian villages where people drink supplied water and groundwater. The village is surrounded by canals though it has good water supply.
It was Panchayat election that bought this village to limelight when four people were killed in an election in year 1994. The Pehelwan took over as sarpanch the village became battlefield since then and rival groups have killed more than 200 people in the clashes which took place in the later years,however state government did notice this and established a special police check post at the village. But now from 2016 the Sarpanch of village is "Pehelwan Satpal" aka "Satpal Chitti".He is also the "Head of All Haryana Sarpanch Association" He is very good at contributing in village growth, he is improving water facilities, street facilities and also contributing in sports and various other welfare activities for village. As he is an International Wrestling Player he is also against drugs and other bad activities.
The village has 9 schools— some exclusively for girls, others exclusively for boys and some are co-educational.
The inhabitants of Mandothi are called Dalal by Gotra,village is also home to various other castes, Discrimination is far away from the hearts of villagers. Mandothi is one of the villages with the largest Dalal community. Mandothi had a runway for aeroplane landing which was built during the British rule.
Because the village has given birth to a lot of wrestlers it is also known as a "Village of Wrestlers". Some of them are "Ratankawar Pehelwan", "Sonu Pehelwan", "Karan singh Pehelwan", "Nihala Pahlwan", "Prithi Pehelwan", "Kala Pehelwan" ,"Surender Pehelwan Urf (Dhandha)".Villagers also support girls equally to boys and support them to perform in wrestling and other sports, girls are trained for wrestling at "Dada Budha Akhada".The village is head of panchayat of many Gotras. It is 10 –12 km away from Bahadurgarh which is almost on the border of Delhi.
There is a big Gaushala in Mandothi where many cows are kept and sick cattle are treated for free, minimal fees is taken to admit new cattle. Every year from 11 January to 14 January there is a haryanvi ragni competition.
There are Six famous temples in the village.
- Jai Dada Sita Ram
- Dada Budha Mandir
A beautiful sun rise at the dada buda temple captured by a local photographer .
- Guru Chela (Chaturbugh) Temple
- Lala Fakir Chand Shivalya
- Dada Samadh Waale Ka Mandir
- Dada Chotariya Mandir
There are three Pana in this villages
- Pachosiya
- Kabosiya
- Matadiya
Getting to village is also easy, Bahadurgarh - Beri bus service is also frequent and comes every 20 to 30 minutes. Bus to Rohtak is also available as per the timing of students. There is also regular service to Rohad and Sampla. Good roads highway like conditions, KMP highway is also possessed near the village (about 1 km).
References
- ^ "Mandothi". Archived from the original on 18 December 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2009.
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A beautiful sun rise at the dada buda temple captured by a local photographer .