History
Bathinda , is one of the historical towns of India , it's associated with the imprisonment of first women emperor of India, Razia Sultan in 1239 in the fort here.
Bathinda is located in the southern Punjab. The Faridkot and Mukatsar districts in the North and West, the Sangrur and Mansa districts in the East and Haryana State in the South, bound it.Bala Rao inhabited this city in 965 AD and named this city as Bathinda after his caste name. This city also remained the capital of Raja Jaipal
The district derives its name from the district headquarters town of Bathinda, which is of great antiquity. According to Khalifa Muhammad Hassan, author of History of Patiala, its ancient name was Bikramgarh. According to raverty, Bathinda was known as Tabarhindh (Labb-ut-Twarikh). According to Ibn Batuta it was known as Batrind. The earliest mention of Tabarhindh occurs in the "Jami-Ul-Hakayat" written about 607 Hijri or 1211 AD. According to "Ainai-Barar Bans" Bathinda was built by Bhati Rao, son of Bal Band, who became ruler of Punjab in 336 Bikrami Sambat. He also founded Bhatner. It was also called Whatinda and Bitunda which finally become known as Bhatinda. But its name was changed to Bathinda on the authority of Survey of India to conform to the phonetic al expression as locally pronounced. In recent times the town was conquered by Maharaja Ala Singh (near about 1754 AD) and since then it followed the history of erstwhile princely state of Patiala. With the dawn of intendance and merger of Patiala and East Punjab States into a division styled at PEPSU, Bathinda become full fledged district which states has combined even after the merger of PEPSU with erstwhile Punjab State in 1956.
It consists of 285 villages out of which 281 are inhabited and 4 are uninhabited, eight towns and One census town.
Bathinda District is situated in the Southern part of Punjab State in the heart of Malwa region. It forms part of newly created division Faridkot Revenue Commissioners Division and is situated between 29 o-33 & 30o-36 North latitude and 74o-38 and 75o-46 East longitude. The district is surrounded with Sirsa and Fatehabad of Haryana State in the south, Sangrur and Mansa district in the East, Moga in the North-east and Faridkot & Muktsar in the North-west.
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Banks in Bathinda
Most of the banks in Bathinda provide Automated teller machine facility for the convenience
of the customers. Through the ATM facility the customers can withdraw money 24 hours.
Some of the banks also offer credit card and debit card facility. The Banks also
provide loan to the agriculturists and landless agricultural laborers who need money.
Internet banking is another facility catered by the banks, which has made the whole
process of banking very convenient. Some of the banks have introduced core banking
which has resulted in the operation of banking process easier all over India.
Major Industries
Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant, Bathinda
The foundation stone of this prestigious Thermal Plant comprising four units of 110 MW capacity each was laid on 19th Nov.,1969 the quincentenary year of the birth of the great Guru Nanak Dev Ji from whom it gets its present name.
National Fertilizers Limited
National Fertilizers Limited was incorporated on 23rd August 1974 and its plant at Bathinda started its commercial Production on 01.10.1979. Toyo Engineering Corporation was prime Engineering Contractors for the plant. M/s Engineers India Ltd.,(EIL) did the detail engineering and supervised the Erection and Commissioning of the plant.
Milk Plant Bathinda
Milk Plant Bathinda was commissioned in September, 1974 with a total outlay of Rs. 1.6 Crores by The Pb. Dairy Dev. Corporation limited. It was one of the select co-operatives that were covered under the Operation Flood-1 Programme.
Phone and Communication
Bathinda is connected to world through very good Landline and Wireless communication network.
There are various land line and Wireless Phone service providers like BSNL,Airtel,Spice,Hutch,Reliance and Vodaphone .Most of the mobile (cell phone) services have good range in all the areas.
Weather Conditions
The weather of Bathinda is very much like the other North Western cities of India. With extreme climatic conditions, weather of Bathinda is marked by very hot summers and freezing cold winters.The summer season, is from the months of April to August, is very hot and dry and the temperature may rise to an extreme of about 43 degree Centigrade or 116 degree Fahrenheit making the weather of Bathinda a sweaty one. During winter that is from the month of November to March the temperature falls considerably. The temperature in the winters falls to 0 degree Centigrade and sometimes even below that. The winter season starts after the rains are over from October and lasts up until March's end. May and June are the hottest months of the year in Bathinda (during which time mercury is known to cross 45 °C).
