Beerwah, Jammu and Kashmir

Beerwah, Jammu and Kashmir Beerwah बीरवाह
city
Country	India
State	Jammu and Kashmir
District	Badgam
Population  (2001)
• Total	5,515
Languages
• Official	Urdu
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)

Beerwah (Template:Lang-hi) is a town and a notified area committee in Badgam district of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Beerwah is at an height of 5200 feet above sea level. It can be identified between 75° E longitude and 34° N latitude at the base of Pir Panjal Mountain range base.

The Beerwah place is placed between plains (north and eastern part - south and south-western part). the beautiful landscape comprises elevated table lands known as "Karewas" given by Godwin-Austin (The British Geologist) first time during 1859. The name Beerwah means "beautiful" in Sanskrit, derived from springs of beerwah known as "Behroop" also means "beautiful".

MIRWAIZ

MIRWAIZ CENTRAL KASHMIR MAWLANA SYED ABDUL LATIEF BUKHARI IS THE ELDER SON OF SIR SYED SANI SYED ALI SHAH AND IS THE MIRWAIZ FOR CENTRAL KASHMIR.,and Chairman for MILI-ITHAD J&K.HE IS FROM DISTRICT BUDGAM,TEHSIL BEERWAH.

Public Figure

SYED ABDUL RAUF BUKHARIwho is currently the joint SECRETARY GENERAL BOARD OF SCHOOL EDUCATION Jammu and kashmir.and GENERAL SECRETARY JAMMU AND KASHMIR YATEEM TRUST Srinagar Jammu and kashmir ,and PATRON SYED ALI MEMORIAL EDUCATIONAL TRUST Beerwah Budgam, NAZIM J&K YATEEM TRUST UNIT Beerwah.,And has been a member of many NGO’S across the globe

Demographics

As of 2001 India census, Beerwah had a population of 5515. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Beerwah has an average literacy rate of 43%, lower than the national average of 59.5%; with 61% of the males and 39% of females literate. 16% of the population is under 6 years of age. Beerwah is the largest constituency in terms of number of voters in district Badgam. Presently the member of legislative assembly (MLA) from this constituency is Dr. Mohammad Shafi Wani from Peoples democratic party (PDP) who succeeded Sarfaraz Ahmad khan also from the same party.

Agriculture

Most of the families in Beerwah have their own fields for cultivation of crops which include rice, mustard, vegetables, apples, walnuts, pears, apricots, cherries and almonds.

Business

Beerwah is a strong center of business. People are dealing with the business at small scales like carpet designing (Kaleen in kashmiri language), designing in shawls (knit work) and embroidery. These kashmiri carpets and shawls have good national and international market but the workers involved in it are not getting sufficient wages to hold on this business. This used to be the most important source of income in the families long time ago but due to increasing prices, family pressure and low income, people shifted to other small scale businesses to meet their family needs. Nowadays, only small chunk of people are involved in this heritage business and is almost at the verge of extinction. As this region of Badgam is very rich in walnut trees large section of people are dealing with walnut export.

Transportation

Mostly people of Beerwah have their own means of conveyance but public transportation includes buses and cars mainly.

History: Beerwah has root word in Sanskrit meaning Beautiful. This town has a 2000 years old history.