About Degana

Degana (Hindi: ) is a town and surrounding tehsil located in the Nagaur district of Rajasthan, India. The town is situated roughly southeast of 90km from Nagaur, at a junction of State Highways 59 and 60. Jat, Rajput, Maheshwari and Meghwal founded the village about 150 years back. A Railway Junction was made in the pre-independence era on the Jaipur-Jodhpur railway track solely for the reason of having a Railway-Node for better operational control as there was a stretch of more than 30km without any station in-between. With the passage of time, a town came into being by drawing more and more habitation in the last 50 years around the Railway Station owing to the better connectivity to more significant city centers like Jaipur, Jodhpur and Bikaner. The town now has headquarters for administrative units of the tehsil. Degana Gram Panchayat has a population of about 24000 and excludes other village population. There are 13000 voters in Degana. The main occupations of people are...