PROFILE AT A GLANCE:

• Integrated rural development project, a joint venture of Navjyoti and India Vision Foundation (I.V.F).

•  Rural Development Complex is built on the land donated by Sh. Prakash Lal Peshawariya, Father of Dr. Kiran Bedi.

• The present Gurgaon district comprises of nine blocks Tauru, Nuh, Pataudi, Nagina, Punhana, F.P.Jhirka, Sohna, Gurgaon & Farrukhnagar was created on 15th August 1979. It is the southern-most district of Haryana.

• Navjyoti is linked with the Sohna block of the Gurgaon district for the past 12 years.

•  According to the population survey done in the year 2001 it has a total population of 16,57,669 with 8,84,456 men and 7,73,213 women.

• The majority of population of the district consists of Hindus. They predominate both in the rural and urban areas except in the Nuh and Ferozpur Jhirka tehsils where the Muslims are in majority.

• The language basically is Mewati, a sub dialect of northeastern Rajasthani. The language of the north and west of the district in which the Ahirs predominate is Ahirwati, another sub-dialect of the northeastern Rajasthani, while language in east of the district in which the Jats predominate, is the Braj Bhasha dialect of western Hindi.