Fazilka

Fazilka.

-Announced district of Punjab on 2011.
-Before partition, 50% of Fazilka population was Muslim. All of them left India for Pakistan in 1947. Most of the villages around Fazilka are dominated by Muslim families, mainly the Bodla, Watto, Sahoo Rajpoot,kalya Rajpoot and Chistis clans.
-Situated at NH 10 connects Delhi via Rohtak and Hisar.
-Fazilka is also known as Bangla - "Heart of Malwa."
-The first railway line through the town was set up in 1898 on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of the Accession of Queen Victoria. Fazilka was connected by railway to McLeodganj (now in Pakistan and renamed Mandi Sadiqganj) on the route to Bahawalnagar and then to Bahawalpur.
-Doesn't have bus transport system.
-Languages Spoken mainly Punjabi, Bagri Sahiwal, lehndi and Rajasthani.
-Literacy 68  percent.