Saharanwas is a village in

Rewari district Rewari district is one of the 22 districts in the state of Haryana, India. It was carved out of Gurgaon district by the Government of Haryana on 1November 1989. It is also part of the National Capital Region. The administrative headquarter o ...

Haryana Haryana () is a States and union territories of India, state located in the northern part of India. It was carved out after the linguistic reorganisation of Punjab, India, Punjab on 1 November 1966. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with les ...

, India. It is situated from the city of

Rewari Rewari is a city and a municipal council in Rewari district in the Indian state of Haryana. It is the district headquarters of Rewari district. It is located in south-west Haryana around 82 km from DelhiNarnaul Narnaul is a city, a Municipal Council, and location of headquarters of the Mahendragarh district in the Indian state of Haryana. It is located in the National Capital Region of India. History & etymology During the early vedic period o ...

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road. A report published in 2003 described the village as "large", with around 600 households and 2000 voters present. In the same year, the majority of the population were listed as being Scheduled Caste in the Indian system intended to aid

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in the spheres of employment and education. The position of

Sarpanch A sarpanch, gram pradhan, mukhiya, or president is a decision-maker, elected by the village-level constitutional body of local self-government called the gram sabha (village government) in India. The sarpanch, together with other elected panchay ...

, who acts as head of the village and is assisted by a Gram Panchayat (local administrative body) consisting of nine people, is controlled by one particular family of the

Ahir Ahir or Aheer (derived from the Sanskrit word: abhira) is a community of traditionally non-elite pastoralists in India, most of whom now use the Yadav surname, as they consider the two terms synonymous. The Ahirs are variously described as a ...

community. It is also the Ahir community who control most of the land, "including a large portion of Panchayat land and common village land." The Sarpanch expressed frustration when he was interviewed in 2003 regarding the effectiveness of the Gram Panchayat, the work of which he said was hampered by administrative issues mostly outside its control. It was announced in 2010 that an Industrial Training Institute would be established in the village on land donated by the panchayat for that purpose. The village hosts a legal aid clinic and as of 2003 had an

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dispensary, although the latter was not much used because most of the populace did not believe in that form of medicine. Saharanwas is the birthplace of

Ajay Singh Yadav Captain Ajay Singh Yadav is a former Indian National Congress politician from the state of Haryana, India. In 2008 he was appointed as Minister of Power, Forests and Environment and was formerly minister of Irrigation, Revenue and Elections for ...

, who was elected to the Haryana

Vidhan Sabha The State Legislative Assembly, also known as the Vidhan Sabha or the Saasana Sabha, is a legislative body in each of the states and certain union territories of India. Members of the legislative assembly are often directly elected to serve fiv ...

(state legislative assembly) on five occasions between 1989 and 2005.

Education

* Smt. Shanti Devi College of Management & Technology * Smt. Shanti Devi Law College * Smt. Shanti Devi School of Nursing

References

Rewari Villages in Rewari district {{Rewari-geo-stub