08 Ajmer
AjmerLand, people & agriculture
A district at the centre of Rajasthan, between the Aravalli hills and the eastern plains — described here as a place first, and only then as a parliamentary constituency.
01 Land card
Census 2011 · undivided districtThe district in figures
02 Geography
Hills, lakes and a watershed
Ajmer district is ringed by ranges of the Aravalli hills; the Nag Pahar range near Pushkar separates the town from the sands to its west, and the quartzite heights of Taragarh overlook Ajmer city. The district sits on a watershed: rivers including the Banas, Khari, Sagarmati, Saraswati and Rupnagar drain its slopes. Its best-known lakes are Ana Sagar and Foy Sagar in Ajmer city and the sacred lake at Pushkar.
Before the 2023 reorganisation of districts, Ajmer was bounded by Nagaur to the north, Bhilwara to the south, Jaipur and Tonk to the east and Pali to the west.
Administrative structure
On 7 August 2023 the Rajasthan Government created new districts including Beawar and Kekri, both carved partly from Ajmer. On 28 December 2024 the State Cabinet de-notified nine of the new districts, including Kekri and Dudu, and Kekri returned to Ajmer district; Beawar was retained. Rajasthan now has 41 districts in 7 divisions, and Ajmer is the headquarters of Ajmer division.
03 History
Chauhans to the RepublicA chronology of Ajmer
- c. 1100
Ajmer is founded by the Chauhan ruler Ajayaraja (Ajayadeva); historians date the foundation to the late 11th or early 12th century. Prithviraj Chauhan later rules from here.
- 1193
After the second battle of Tarain (1192), Ajmer passes to the Delhi Sultanate.
- 1556
Taken by the Mughal emperor Akbar; Ajmer becomes the seat of a Mughal province.
- 1770
Comes under Maratha control.
- 1818
Ceded to the British; later administered as the Chief Commissioner's province of Ajmer-Merwara.
- 1950–1956
Ajmer State, a Part C State of the Indian Republic, until it is merged into Rajasthan on 1 November 1956.
04 Agriculture & water
Farming on thin water
Ajmer lies in the Semi-Arid Eastern Plains agro-climatic zone. Its soils range from sierozems to alluvium in the east, lithosols in the west and north-west, and brown soils in the foothills. In the kharif season farmers grow bajra, jowar and guar; in the rabi, with irrigation where available, wheat, mustard and gram.
Water is the binding constraint. The Central Ground Water Board classifies seven of the district's nine assessment blocks as over-exploited and two as critical; in Peesangan block annual extraction is 207.94% of recharge. Ajmer city's drinking water comes largely from the Bisalpur dam on the Banas, in neighbouring Tonk district.
PMFBY in Ajmer district
A Lok Sabha answer of 21 July 2026 recorded 65.25 lakh farmer applications from Ajmer district over five seasons, claims of ₹762.73 crore, and 12.25 lakh hectares insured. In 2025-26, 2,83,026 hectares — 36% of the gross cropped area — were insured for 2,30,495 farmers.
Lok Sabha USQ 367, 21 July 2026Rural economy & industry
Beyond farming, the district's economy rests on minerals and stone — feldspar, quartz, limestone, marble and granite. Kishangarh, his home town, is a major centre of the marble and stone trade.
Connectivity
National Highway 48, the Delhi–Mumbai corridor, passes through Kishangarh and Ajmer. Ajmer Junction is on the North Western Railway, and Kishangarh has an airport serving the region. Improving these links was the subject of several of his Lok Sabha questions as an MP, including the Ajmer–Tonk railway line (2021) and Kishangarh Airport (2023).
Education
Ajmer is home to Mayo College, founded in 1875; to Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University; and, near Kishangarh, to the Central University of Rajasthan.
Rajasthan Foundation; CGWB; Lok Sabha questions via the archive05 Culture & tourism
A pilgrimage district
Ajmer is known across South Asia for the Dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, the shrine of the 13th-century Sufi saint, whose annual Urs draws pilgrims from many countries. Close by, Pushkar is among the most sacred sites in Hinduism, with its lake, ghats and Brahma temple, and hosts the annual Pushkar fair. The Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra mosque, Taragarh fort and the lakes of Ana Sagar and Foy Sagar are among the city's historic landmarks. Ajmer is one of the cities selected under the national Smart Cities Mission.
Development issues on the parliamentary record
The constituency questions he asked between 2019 and 2024 are themselves a record of the issues raised on Ajmer's behalf in Parliament: 29 questions concerned Ajmer, its towns or Rajasthan. The answers set out the Government's position; they are not evidence of outcomes.
10 Aug 2023Unstarred Q. 3454
Kishangarh Airport
Ministry of Civil Aviation
4 Aug 2023Unstarred Q. 2734
Beneficiaries of PMSMA and PMMVY in Rajasthan
Ministry of Women and Child Development
28 Jul 2023Unstarred Q. 1573
Army School in Rajasthan
Ministry of Defence
20 Jul 2023Unstarred Q. 182
MSMEs in Rajasthan and Gujarat
Ministry of Micro,Small and Medium Enterprises
5 Apr 2023Unstarred Q. 5441
Allocation of Foodgrains to Rajasthan
Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
3 Apr 2023Unstarred Q. 5247
CSR in Rajasthan
Ministry of Corporate Affairs
06 Parliamentary representation
Ajmer Lok Sabha constituencyThe constituency and its Member
The Ajmer Lok Sabha constituency, as delimited in 2008, comprises eight Assembly segments. It extends beyond today's Ajmer district: Dudu lies in Jaipur district and Masuda in Beawar district.
- Assembly segmentDudu
- Assembly segmentKishangarh
- Assembly segmentPushkar
- Assembly segmentAjmer North
- Assembly segmentAjmer South
- Assembly segmentNasirabad
- Assembly segmentMasuda
- Assembly segmentKekri
Bhagirath Choudhary has represented the constituency since May 2019, when he was elected to the 17th Lok Sabha; he was re-elected in June 2024. Before that he had represented the Kishangarh Assembly segment in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly for two terms (2003–2008 and 2013–2018).
This page does not attribute constituency projects to him. Development works in Ajmer are funded and executed by Central and State departments; where his role in a specific work is documented, it appears on the Field Engagements or Media pages with its source.
Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008, as listed by the Election Commission; Digital Sansad