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member from nearly half of Kotra households (49.2%) leave the tehsil to seek employment. The chief destination for Kotra emigrants is the state of
Gujarat (66% of workers), most of which is in the northern Gujarat districts of Banaskantha and Sabarkantha. Migrants from the Kotra block are generally employed in unskilled employment with about 83% of them employed as unskilled laborers in agriculture and construction sectors.
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As per the 2001 Census of India, 90% of the population of Kotra tehsil speaks Mewari. However, GS Ojha reports that whereas Mewari is the primary language of the Mewar region, the language spoken in the southern and western parts of Mewar (which includes Kotra) is Vagdi. Ojha describes Vagdi as being
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Economic activities and livelihood opportunities in Kotra tehsil are limited; this has been attributed to small land holdings, poor quality of natural resources, lack of irrigation, and low literacy levels. Thus, the economy of Kotra depends heavily on migration. A 2006 survey found that at least one
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During the
British Raj, Kotra was directly under the political supervision of the second in command of the Mewar Bhil Corps and a cantonment was situated in the village of Kotra. The 1908 Imperial Gazetteer describes Kotra as a cantonment where a detachment (two companies) is quartered. Kotra was the
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In 1949, Udaipur State merged into
Greater Rajasthan, and Udaipur district was formed with 18 tehsils, of which Kotra was one. The Kotra panchayat samiti started functioning in 1959. Between the census of 2001 and 2011, approximately 60 villages in the northeastern portion of the tehsil were
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As of the 2011 India census, Kotda had a population of 230,532 (116,764 males and 113,768 females). The total number of households was 41,790. Males constitute 50.65 percent of the population and females make up 49.35 percent. Kotra has an average
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Ground elevations in the tehsil range from 187 m (above Mean Sea Level) to 1,017 m. Elevations in the northern and eastern parts of the tehsil are generally higher, sloping down in a southwesterly direction towards the
Sabarmati River and its
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rate of 24.52 percent, lower than the national average of 59.5 percent (2001 census); male literacy is 37.55 percent, and female literacy is 11.14 percent. In Kotra, for every 1,000 males there are 980 females. This
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is located on the Sei River in northern Kotra tehsil near the village of Teja ka Bas. This is a 28 m high dam which is used to impound water not for use downstream of the dam, but for inter-basin transfer to
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Whereas revenue settlement begun in some parts of
Udaipur district in 1879, but it was not until 1955 that Kotra tehsil was settled, when 304 villages were settled.
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The area of Kotra tehsil is 1,110.93 square kilometres. The annual average rainfall in Kotra tehsil is 800.7 mm, with an average of 35 rainy days per year.
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Roads are the only mode of long-distance transport in Kotra tehsil. There is limited bus service available from
Udaipur to Kotra by
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site of the oldest medical institutions in the Mewar State, when regimental hospitals of the Mewar Bhil Corps were opened in 1818.
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could be distinguished from other parts of Mewar by the fact that "the Bhils were never conquered: even the
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state. The tehsil headquarter is located in the village of Kotra, southwest of the
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447:. For the same reason, Kotra tehsil has been designated as a
711:. New Delhi, India: Sarup & Sons. 2008. p. 164.
525:"Official Website of Udaipur: Blocks/Tehsils/Panchayats"
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Administrative Atlas of Rajasthan: District and Tahsil
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at a distance of 57 km and 120 km by road.
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249:. The tehsil is bordered to the north by
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898:Indian Journal of Environmental Sciences
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805:Hydrology and Water Resources of India
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492:District Census Handbook: Udaipur
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735:Rainfall Profile of Udaipur
597:. Oxford. 1908. p. 4.
527:. Government of Rajasthan.
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