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Pilauda, also known as Piloda is a village in the district of Sawai Madhopur, tehsil being Gangapur city in the state of Rajasthan of republic of India. The village is one of the largest in the district. The village has population of more than 6,038 the majority of them being Tribal, with over 2,000 houses.
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Map of Pilauda, Rajasthan 322205
The village exhibits typical features of the tribal villages of Rajasthan. It has a number of satellite puras which are small constellations of houses in the radial settlement fashion. It is well connected through rail and road having its own broad gauge railway station located between Shri Mahavirji and Gangapur city Railway Station. The famous pilgrimage site of Shri Lahkod Devi has its holy pond nearby attracting crowd of devotees, especially during the month of April on the day of Durgaasthmi and Shri Ram Navami, as a local fair is organized with a number of inter-village competitions such as wrestling or kushti, camel race, bull race, swimming, and cycling. There are huge number of devotees of Ma lahkod, a number of whom give tilakdanda by lying prostrate, making lines with their hands in that position, advancing up to the line drawn and repeating this procedure till they reach the temple, from their homes.
Economy of the village is centered on agriculture and allied activities. About half of the agricultural land of the village lies in command area of canal of Panchna Dam located in the outskirts of the city of Karauli.
Recent years village is fighting with paucity of water as waters of Panchna canal has been held by Rajasthan government for undisclosed reasons. This is creating adversity for vulnerable section of farmers of Pilauda and other villages of Command area. With time the village has transformed remarkably, especially in the field of education having a number of schools, with some them being up to senior secondary level. The village represents a well knit unit of several castes residing in it including Mina, Brahmins, Vaishya, and Dalit and Muslims. Athiti Devo bhav motto of India is truly followed here. The village boasts of no. of Engineering graduates including those from Indian Institute of Technology.
Culture
Culturally village hosts no. of Dangal (competition) of kirtan, kanhiyas and pada, which are local variants of the bhakti movement. Diwali and the Fair of Shri Lahkod Devi are the major occasion of festivities. Temple of Shri Lahkod Devi, the elder sister of Maa Kaila devi is major Temple and is center of major religious and public activities of village. The pond near temple is used for bath purpose by the male members of village. The houses exhibits a no. of tribal features including Mandna on the Floor made of mud and buffalo dung Traditional dress worn by male members of village include Dhoti of about 5 meter in length and 1.5 meter in breadth and is of white colour, Kurta which is long and is generally of white colour with a long towel like cloth called Angochi around neck. Old Men generally sports moustace and wear no or very less jewellery. While woman wear traditional ghagra, blouse which is now being given up in favour of short shirt along with long translucent rectangular plain cloth of about 3mX1.3m worn over head, its called Lugadi in local dialect. One of the use of Lugadi is to make Purdah by women in front of males who are senior to there husband as a mark of respect, as widely prevalent in rest of Rajasthan. Woman wear heavy silver bracelets on arms and a similar heavy silver anklet called "kaludya".
With the village culture being exposed to the outside world, the Purdah system is being diluted, which is in fact a sign of a modern society.
Recent caste panchyat of mina villages of area in March 2011 has prohibited alcohol consumption and gambling, making it an offense, which shall attract a fine of Rs 51000.
Geography
Coordinates :Latitude, Longitude: 26.60'N,76.83'E
Pin Code:322205
Geographically village has black soil in the maad area in western part and yellow soil in the eastern part. A number of farm-ponds have been built by the people to meet the increasing demand of water for irrigation. This represents best example of water harvesting in the dry state of Rajasthan. Important crops include oilseeds, bajra, wheat. The village has huge mud mound of height about hundred meters in the eastern side which now has a small market catering to the needs of the village.
The village faces problem of drinking water as water in the wells is hard and not fit to be consumed.
Telecommunication
Std Code:07463
The village has BTS of major telecommunication companies including that of BSNL, Airtel, Vodafone, Reliance. Land line telephony is also available, though the village still lacks Internet Broadband connectivity. Direct to home, DTH connections in the village are also on rise.
Health
The village has one Primary Health Center, one Ayurvedic Hospital and many private practitioners catering their own and neighboring villages like Kherli, Baglai, Kishorpur, Khareda and Mahanandpur's health requirement. These Primary Health Centres have been sanctioned to MBBS doctors' post, however they seldom visit.