Degana

Degana is a Town Municipality and headquarter to Sub-Division & Tehsil located in Nagaur district of Rajasthan, India.A Railway Junction Station 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 30 kM without any station in-between. With the passage of time, a Town came into being by drawing more and more dwellers & houses in last 50 years nearer to the Railway Station owing to better transport connectivity to more significant city centers like Jaipur, Jodhpur and Bikaner. The city now has headquarters for administrative units of the Sub-Division. Degana is 44 KM From Makrana Railway station and 15 KM from Gachhipura Railway station.DemographyAs of 2011 India census, Degana had a population of 34,315. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Degana has an average literacy rate of 70%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 75%, and female literacy is 51%.MineralWolfram deposits are found in Renwat Hill at Degana. In this mineral the tungsten of Iron and Manganese occurs, in the veins and lodes of granite and phtilites. A reserve of the order of 3,400 tones has been established. Till 1994 Hindustan Zinc was mining here in collaboration with government of Rajasthan, But as the depth of mineral is now very deep it is not that economical to mine mineral from this reservoir so they decided to stop mining for certain timing and started to import.