Ellenabad

Ellenabad, previously known as Kharial, is a city with a municipal committee, near Sirsa City in the Sirsa district of the state of Haryana, India. It is located on the south bank of the Ghaggar River in the heart of the Bagar tract areas of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan and serves as a port of entry into the state of Haryana from the Rajasthan side. It has a strategic location as not only is it located near the Rajasthan border in Haryana but the Punjab border is also near to it. Because of this, the city has a kind off cosmopolitan culture of Punjabis, particularly Malwayi culture, Rajasthani Marwadi culture, Deshwali Haryanvi culture and native Bagri culture and traditions or a mix of all of them or some of them. The city of Ellenabad is divided into 17 wards with elections held every five years. As of 2011, the city had a population of 52,285, divided between two governing bodies: the Ellenabad Municipal Committee with 44,452 persons and the Ellenabad Rural Gram panchayat with 7,833. As of 2022, the city is estimated to have a population exceeding 60,000. There has been a rising demand to merge both administrative bodies and upgrade it to the Municipal Council level. Ellenabad Municipal Committee has total administration over 8,387 houses to which it supplies basic amenities like water and sewerage. It is also authorized to build roads within Municipal Committee limits and impose taxes on properties under its jurisdiction.

It is a constituency of Haryana Vidhan Sabha. The current Member of the Legislative Assembly is Bharat Singh Beniwal of Indian National Congress.

Ellenabad is the headquarters of Ellenabad tehsil, block, RTO and sub-divisions in Sirsa district and holds a seat for tehsildar, BDO, TC and SDM respectively. Big villages like Talwara with 9,000 people, Mallekan with 7,000 people and Jiwan nagar with 16,000 people come under jurisdiction of at least one of the mentioned governing bodies. Their population is a nearest thousandth estimation of the 2011 census.