KISHTWAR DISTRICT[JAMMU AND KASHMIR]

         About KISHTWAR 

Kishtwar is also known as the "Land of Kishat rishi, Sapphire and Saffron", as kishat rishi was the saint who lived here and there is mine a huge mine of Sapphire in Paddar area and rich cultivation of Saffron in Pochhal area in Kishtwar district

District kishtwar is carved out in the year 2007 and it started fuctioning as independent admistrative unit on 01-04-2007.

  Teshils in KISHTWAR                     

1. KISHTWAR

2. PADDER

3. MACHAIL

4. WARWAN

5.CHATROO

6. DACHAN

7.NAGESANI

8.BUNJWAH

9.MUGALMAIDAN

10.MARWAH

11.DRABSHALLA

   BLOCKS IN KISHTWAR

1.MARWAH

2.CHATROO

3.DACHAN

4.WARWAN

5.PALMAR

6.NAGESANI

7.DRABSHALLA

8.INDERWAL

9.BONJWAH 

10.THAKRIE

11.TRIGAM

12.PADDER

13.MACHAI

                                 GOVT

   Loksabha Constituency :- Udhampur

   MP : dr Jitendra singh[bjp]

   Vidhan sabha:3 constituency [kishtwar, inderwal,gulabgarh]

                           

                                 AREA

    7737SQKM

                 

                         DEMOGRAPHY

         LITERACY RATE > 56.2 %

          SEX RATIO  >920/1000

        

                         LANGUAGE

     Official language >Dogri, English ,urdu ,hindi ,kashmiri.

  

Time zone > UTC+05.30 [ist]

vechile reg >jk17

mAJOR hIGHWAY >NH 244

                   DAMS

DAM [Click here to read abouts dams]

                      

                         KISHTWAR NATIONAL PARK 

  The National Park in KISHTWAR attracts wildlife and nature enthusians.

YEAR Est. > 1981

 Area > 425 sq km

Animals > brown beer , snow cock , snow leopard....

To protect snow leopards [endagered]. Surrounding bythe rinny river to north Kibar nala catchment by south ,main divide of the great himalayas in the east and marwar river in west.

Flora of this park > coniferous ,alpine medows and scrubs forests.

Important trees species >Chilgoza pine ,himalyan cedar ,persian walnut , oak etc

Herbs > purple false brome , anemone , mugwort , sundrop etc

Fauna > musk deer ,himalayan black and grown bear hangul ,etc

50 species of birds are found here includes Himalayan monal,bearded vulture ,white cheeked bulbul,etc

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