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safidon
सफीदों
ਸਫੀ਼ਦੌ਼
Metropolitan city
Country India
StateHaryana
DistrictJind
 • Rank25 in {hr}
Elevation
221 m (725 ft)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total
110,500
 • Rank28
Languages
 • OfficialHindi
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
126112
Telephone code01686
Vehicle registrationHR-33
Websitewww.safidoncity.com

Safidon is a city and a municipal committee in Jind district in the Indian state of Haryana. Safidon is located at 29° 25' 0" North, 76° 40' 0" East. It has an average elevation of 221 m (725 feet). Safidon is the center of Panipat and Jind. The town is the headquarters of the tehsil of the same name. It is situated on the bank of the Hansi branch of the Western Yamuna canal, 35km northeast of Jind. The Safidon Sub-Division comprises Safidon tehsil and sub-tehsil Pillukhera. There are 71 villages under Safidon Tehsil. Safidon is the constituency no. 35 of Haryana Vidhan Sabha. It is located on the Panipat-Jind railway line.

History

Safidon is possibly the site of Sarpadevi or Sarpidadhi referred in Mahabharata and Vamana Purana.[citation needed] It is associated with the snake sacrifice of Janamejaya, son of Parikshit. The latter lost his life in the struggle against the Nagas of Taxiles, which was later avenged by his son Janamejaya, symbolised in the epic tradition of Sarpasastra (snake sacrifice) which possibly took place at Sarpadevi. There are three ancient temples and tirthas of Nagesvara Mahadeva, Nagadamni Devi and Nagashetra.

The area was first occupied by a Pre-Harappan Chalcolithic agricultural community, whose pottery has been recovered from a number of places near Safidon, including Hatt(Hattkeshawar), Anta, Morkhi, and Beri Khera.[citation needed] The area was irrigated during the reign of Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1351-1388) of the Tughlaq dynasty, who built a canal from the Yamuna which entered the district at Anta, and thence flowing through the present Jind tehsil from east to west in the line of the old Chutang nadi past the town of Safidon and Jind, reached up to Hisar. Firoz also made administrative changes, creating a separate Iqta of Safidon and placed the entire area of the present district under its Mukta, Yalkhan, a trusted noble. He also changed the name of Safidon to Tughluqpur.[citation needed]

After Firoz's death, discord disrputed the Delhi Sultanate, and the Tughlaq dynasty lost Safidon and Jind. Timur attacked northern India in 1398, entering Haryana from Punjab. The district of Jind did not suffer much at his hands; during his march from Kaithal to Panipat he touched only the outskirts of the district except for a short distance of a few kilometres from Moana (a small village)to Safidon and a little beyond. While local inhabitants fled, the fort of Safidon was burned.[citation needed]

Gajpat Singh, a great grandson of Phul, the founder of the Phulkian Misl, one of the 12 confederacies of the Sikhs in the 18th century took advantage of the above situation. He took part in the attack of the Sikhs on the province of Sirhind in 1763 in which Zain Khan, the Afghan governor of the province, was killed. Gajpat Singh occupied a large tract of the country including Jind and Safidon as his share of the spoil.

During the reorganization of the Punjab in 1966, the Sangrur district was divided and Jind and Narwana Tehsils were allocated to Haryana and were constituted into Jind district. The Jind tehsil was divided into two tehsils of Jind and Safidon in 1967. In January 1973, five villages of Kaithal Tehsil were transferred to Safidon Tehsil .

Distance from other cities

Transport

  • Kumar Roadline Near Canal Bridge, Safidon Contact No. 9802225467

Demographics

The 2011 India Census reported that:[1]

  • Safidon has population 110,500 in 2011
  • Males constituted 54% of the population and females 46%
  • Safidon had an average literacy rate of 65%, higher than the national average of 59.5%
  • Male literacy was 71% and female literacy 58%
  • 14% of the population was under six years of age
  • Safidon had evenly distributed Hindu and Jain and Sikh populations, with small Muslim and Christian communities

TIN Facilitation Center

There is a Tax Information Network (TIN) Facilitation Center in Safidon. TIN is an initiative by the Income Tax Department of India (ITD) for the modernization of the current system for collection, processing, monitoring and accounting of direct taxes using information technology.

Economy and infrastructure

This city is connected by railway and roadway to Panipat, Jind, Rohtak, Delhi, and Chandigarh. Safidon is the sub-depot of the Haryana Roadways (Haryana state transport).

Safidon, being the main city in Jind district, is also the site of a container rail terminal of the Container Corporation of India (CONCOR), and a bus terminal. Because it has the largest Mandi in district its economic place is very high. In Safidon overall 22 banks in the city. It also have wide range of hatchery and poltery farms near about 198 hatcheries.

Places of interest

  • Panchanada tirtha Hatkeswar Teerth lies at village Hatt (Amit Singh Boora Advocate's village ), about 10 km southwest of Safidon; the creation of this tirtha is attributed to Rudra. Inhabited by the gods, Panchanada tirtha is considered the remover of all sins
  • Nagakshetra temple is the oldest temple in the city
  • Dasasvamedha Tirtha is at the village of Didwara in Safidon Tehsil, 13 km North of Safidon; bathing there with devotion is considered to have the merit of ten Ashvamedha sacrifices
  • Jain Mandir is a temple at MKT committee road
  • Aruna tirtha lies at village Anta, 6 km south of Safidon. It is mentioned in the Mahabharata
  • Parasara tank and a brick temple of Mahadeva at Paju Kalan (5 kilometres north-west of Safidon)
  • Suraj Kund built in honour of Sun God at Kalwa (15 kilometres south-west of Safidon)
  • Temple of Mahadeva at Barod (5.5 kilometres north-east of Safidon)
  • A tank named after the Vedic sage Vasishtha at Budha Khera (12 kilometres north-west of Safidon)
  • Ramsar park
  • Ram Nagar (jasvinder phourVillage) a village known for its farming method is about 12 km southwest of Safidon
  • Shiv Mandi temple at Ratta Khera village

Artist

  • Rapper Rony

Vikas Sharma (born 09 MAY 1993) better known by his stage name Rapper Rony or Rony D-KruZZZ is an Indian people rapper, music producer and singer.[2][3] He has perform with V-Krepz with whom he launched his first track 2013.

Schools

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