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20-551: Sanganer is a town/ tehsil (an administrative division) situated in Jaipur district , Rajasthan , 16 km south of state capital Jaipur . Jaipur has been divided in 13 Sub divisions and Sanganer is one of these 13 Sub divisions. It is famous for textile printing , handmade paper industry, and for Jain temples. Sanganer prints are one of its own kinds, for the reason that the patterns in bright colours are always printed on white backgrounds. Sanganeri Hand block printing received

40-449: A designated place within tehsil area known as tehsil headquarters. Tehsildar is the incharge of tehsil office. This is similar to district office or district collector at district level. Throughout India, there is a three-tier local body/Panchayat system within the state. At the top is the zila/zilla panchayat (parishad). Taluka/mandal panchayat/panchayat samiti/community development block is the second layer of this system and below them are

60-548: A limited period, which is declared and decided previously. The idols thus brought out for viewing (Darshan) of devotees, must be placed back within auspicious signs. The temple came to light when Muni Sudhasagar Ji, a disciple of Acharya Vidyasagar Ji visited the underground floors. He brought valuable, never seen before, Jain Murti made of precious stones from the underground floors in the presence of more than five lac Jain disciples. He claimed that he encountered many Yaksha in

80-579: Is Bhajan Lal Sharma who is also serving Chief Minister of Rajasthan . The nearby located is one of the biggest Rajasthan housing board colony, Pratap Nagar. EPIP (Export Promotion Industrial Park) Sitapura is also located in this place. Muhana and Muhana Mandi is 6 km from town. Jaipur Airport is located in Sanganer. Ch Charan Singh National Institute of Agricultural Marketing (NIAM) and Indian Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR) are two institutes located in Sanganer. The history of

100-491: Is a stone shrine with sky-high eight shikharas (pinnacles). In the midst of underground portion, there is located an ancient small temple guarded by the Yaksha . The sacred temple has seven underground floors which are kept closed due to old religious beliefs and visitors are not allowed to see them. It is said that only a Balyati ascetic Digambara saint can enter it and able to bring out the idols of this underground temple for

120-473: Is called the tehsildar or, less officially, the talukdar or taluka muktiarkar . Tehsil or taluk can be considered sub-districts in the Indian context. In some instances, tehsils overlap with " blocks " (panchayat union blocks or panchayat development blocks or cd blocks) and come under the land and revenue department, headed by the tehsildar; and blocks come under the rural development department, headed by

140-594: Is the sub-district of a district, similarly, Nayabat is the sub-tehsil of a tehsil. List of mandals in Andhra Pradesh A mandalam is a local government area in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana . The mandal system was introduced as an administrative reform to make governance more efficient by reducing the size of the larger, previously existing taluks. The decentralization aimed at improving revenue administration, record-keeping, and enhancing

160-471: The block development officer and serve different government administrative functions over the same or similar geographical area. Although they may on occasion share the same area with a subdivision of a revenue division, known as revenue blocks , the two are distinct. For example, Raipur district in Chhattisgarh state is administratively divided into 13 tehsils and 15 revenue blocks. Nevertheless,

180-442: The district , also sometimes translated as county . In neither case is the analogy very exact. Tehsildar is the chief or key government officer of each tehsil or taluka. In some states different nomenclature like talukdar, mamledar, amaldar, mandal officer is used. In many states of India, the tehsildar functions as the executive magistrate of that tehsil. Each tehsil will have an office called tehsil office or tehsildar office at

200-399: The geographical indication (GI) tag in 2010. The handmade paper industry began with the idea of Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II in 1728. Around ten handmade paper industries are present in Sanganer. Krishan Lal Balmiki the member of Rajya Sabha , was also from Sanganer (born 10 July 1942, died 21 April 2010). Sanganer is also a legislative assembly of Rajasthan and current MLA of Sanganer

220-658: The Sanganeri prints is around 500 years old. The origin of these prints came around during the 16th and 17th centuries. And by the end of the 18th century, Sanganer was a well-established production house of these block printing textiles. The Sanganeri prints are widely known for their delicate and fine designs. Originally, Sanganeri prints used to be created on a white and off white fabrics. However, nowadays, other fabrics are also being used as bases. The prints of Sanganer comprise delicate floral patterns. These flower motifs are generally known as 'Buttas'. The elaborate detailing of

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240-538: The flowers and the petals is very exclusive to the Sanganeri prints. Today, the textile market of Sanganer is famous in India and around the world for its unique blend of traditional and traditional styles of printing. Sanganer is a famous pilgrimage town for the Jain community because of a very ancient Jain temple made of red stone. The ancient Shri Digamber Jain temple of Sanganer is 16 km from Jaipur. In this temple

260-405: The form of snakes who were there to protect the treasure and ordinary people cannot enter into the underground floors without seeking permission from the protector gods. The process of bringing Murti and keeping back was telecast live on various TV channels and widely covered by the media. Tehsil In Andhra Pradesh and Telangana , a newer unit called mandal (circle) has come to replace

280-443: The gram panchayats or village panchayats. These panchayats at all three levels have elected members from eligible voters of particular subdivisions. These elected members form the bodies which help the administration in policy-making, development works, and bringing grievances of the common public to the notice of the administration. Nayabat is the lower part of tehsil which have some powers like tehsil. It can be understood as tehsil

300-583: The principal deity is the Lord Adinath (Rishabh Dev). The ancient Shri Digambara Jain temple of Sanganer has fine carvings that are comparable to the Dilwara Temples of Mount Abu that are built in many phases. The last phase of this temple was completed in the 10th century A.D., according to an inscription of V.S. 1011 in one of the Toranas . It has sky-high shikharas and the inner sanctum

320-639: The reach of the panchayati raj system. As part of the middle tier of the panchayati raj structure, mandals replaced the former panchayat samitis in Andhra Pradesh during the tenure of the Telugu Desam Party government led by N. T. Rama Rao on May 25, 1985. The reform was inspired by the recommendations of the Ashok Mehta Committee . The expectation was that the division of large taluks into smaller mandals would lead to more manageable administrative units and allow closer oversight of

340-495: The tehsil system. It is generally smaller than a tehsil, and is meant for facilitating local self-government in the panchayat system . In West Bengal , Bihar, Jharkhand, community development blocks are the empowered grassroots administrative unit, replacing tehsils. Tehsil office is primarily tasked with land revenue administration, besides election and executive functions. It is the ultimate executive agency for land records and related administrative matters. The chief official

360-552: The term tehsil is commonly used in all northern states . In Maharashtra , Gujarat , Goa , Karnataka , Kerala and Tamil Nadu , taluka or taluk is more common. In Eastern India , instead of tehsils, the term Subdivision is used in Bihar , Assam , Jharkhand and West Bengal , as well as large parts of Northeast India ( Manipur , Meghalaya , Mizoram , Sikkim and Tripura ). In Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland , they are called circle . Tehsil/tahsil and taluk/taluka and

380-801: The two are often conflated. India, as a vast country, is subdivided into many states and union territories for administrative purposes. Further divisions of these states are known as districts . These districts (zila/zilla) are again divided into many subdivisions , viz tehsils or taluks. These subdivisions are again divided into gram panchayats or village panchayats. Initially, this was done for collecting land revenue and administration purposes. But now these subdivisions are governed in tandem with other departments of government like education, agriculture, irrigation, health, police, etc. The different departments of state government generally have offices at tehsil or taluk level to facilitate good governance and to provide facilities to common people easily. In India,

400-488: The variants are used as English words without further translation. Since these terms are unfamiliar to English speakers outside the subcontinent , the word county has sometimes been provided as a gloss , on the basis that a tehsil, like a county, is an administrative unit hierarchically above the local city, town, or village, but subordinate to a larger state or province. India and Pakistan have an intermediate level of hierarchy (or more than one, at least in parts of India):

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