Tohana
This is Official page of Tohana.
Geography:
Tohana is located at 29.7°N 75.9°E.[1] It has an average elevation of 224 metres (734 feet).
Groups:
Tohana has large Sikh population.Saini is the largest populated caste of Tohana. There are lots of Sainis villages in Tohana. Other populated groups are Jatt/Jaat, Brahman. People of Tohana mainly speak Punjabi and some dialects in Haryanvi.There is a historical gurudwara near tohana related to 9th guru of Sikhs( SHRI GURU TEG BAHADUR JI) father of Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji.
Demographics:
As of 2001 India census,[2] Tohana had a population of 51,518. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Tohana has an average literacy rate of 61%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 67%, and female literacy is 55%. In Tohana, 15% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Tohana is situated just 8 kilometres from the Haryana-Punjab border in North-West of Haryana. One of the neighbouring cities is Hisar 72 miles stone away from Tohana (by which most of the people can identify it), which used to be the district for Tohana until 1997. Fatehabad was cut as a separate district from Hisar and Tohana was included in the part of land which went to Fatehabad.
People and attractions:
The Tohana grain market is the trading place for a number of villages in the vicinity and boasts of high amount of crop input, the main ones being Cotton, Wheat, Paddy. Most of the industries in the town are agriculture based and almost 70% of the population is employed in the same. Agriculture is the main backbone of the town. Kharif and rabi are the main crops which are cultivated here.
The main attraction of this small town is "Baliala Guest House" where you can enjoy the distribution of the water of Bhakhra Nagnal Main Branch Canal into seven different canals. Hence this town is surrounded by the seven canals. Tohana is well connected by northern railways dierctly to Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkatta, Ludhiana, Jammu and other major cities. and it is well connected by the road network too. Punjabi, Hindi, Haryanvi, Multani languages are common here in the town. The strongest part of this small town is communal harmony. The people who had come from western Punjab after partition had become very influential with a passage of time. Tohana is nowadays developing as a medical hub for the areas nearby to it.
Education:
College - The town has two UG level colleges, one of them is a co-ed I.G. Govt. College, Tohana[3] (Now BBA and BCA also available in I.G. Govt College Tohana affiliated with K.U.Kurukshetra) and other one being women college Shri Durga Mahila Maha. The courses available are mostly arts and commerce, but there has been an increase in the number of computer courses like MCA etc. Both the colleges are affiliated to the Kurukshetra University. The commerce was started in I.G. Govt College in the year 1989 and Sh. K.C. Goel has a great contribution for getting the Commerce course started in I.G.Govt College. For the next five years he was the only teacher of Commerce and he single handedly managed to successfully run the department. Earlier Sh. K.C. Goel was posted in Narwana K.M. College. Now city has two polytechnic college 1.Apex polytechnic 2.Guru nanak polytechnic and 1 management college starting this year 1.Guru nanak institute of management
School - The town has a DAV school which has been building futures from last 15 years. Other Reputed English Medium schools running successfully in town includes:Colonel Public School,Green Valley Public School.
