Jaliwada


Jaliwara Khurd or Jaliwada is a village in Rajasthan, India. Administratively, it is under Nanan gram panchayat, Bilara tehsil, Jodhpur district, Rajastha.
It is 8 km by road northeast of Piparcity on the Jodhpur-Merta road. It is on the left bank of the Mitri River, an intermittent stream and tributary of the Luni River.
In 2011, it came into limelight, when the nurse Bhanwari Devi was kidnapped there, leading to a political scandal.

Demographics

In the 2001 census, the village of Jaliwara Khurd had 1,092 inhabitants, with 572 males and 520 females, for a gender ratio of 909 females per thousand males.