Kaithal district


Kaithal district is one of the 22 districts of Haryana, state in northern India. Kaithal town is the district headquarters. The district occupies an area of 2317 km². It has a population of 1,074,304. It is part of Karnal division. Kaithal was notified as district by Haryana Govt. on 16 October 1989 and carved out of Kurukshetra and Jind districts, comprising Guhla and Kaithal sub-divisions of Kurukshetra district, Kalayat sub-tahsil and 6 villages of Jind district.
This district came into existence on 1 November 1989.

Divisions

Kaithal district comprises four tehsils: Kaithal, Guhla, Pundri and Kalayat; and the three sub-tehsils of Rajaund, Dhand and Siwan. The four Haryana Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in this district are Guhla, Kalayat, Kaithal and Pundri. All of these are part of Kurukshetra Lok Sabha constituency.

Kaithal Bar Association

The Kaithal Bar Association was established in 1905–06. The membership of Bar in 1970 was 60 and the District Bar Association was established on 01.11.1989 after creation of District Kaithal. There is also a Bar Association at Sub Division, Guhla. The name of the eminent Lawyers from the District Bar Association Kaithal are Babu Jyoti Parshad, Pt. Amarnath Tewari, Malik Murari Lal, Mulakh Raj Grover, Ch. Barumal, Chaudhary Shamsul Haq, Shri Dinanath Advocate, Shri Ravi Parkash Gupta, Shri Anurag Gupta, Choudhary Baru Ram Advocate and Shri O.P.Tiwari Advocate.

Demographics

RankLanguage196119912001
1Haryanvi81.00%89.12%87.28%
2Punjabi18.40%10.81%12.43%
3Urdu—0.02%0.07%
—Other0.60%0.05%0.22%

According to the 2011 census Kaithal district has a population of 1,074,304, roughly more than the nation of Cyprus or the US state of Rhode Island. This gives it a ranking of 423rd in India. The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 13.39%. Kaithal has a sex ratio of 880 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 70.6%.
At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 89.37% of the population in the district spoke Hindi and 10.34% Punjabi as their first language.