Jobner is a city and a municipality in Jaipur district in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

Geography

Jobner is located at . It has an average elevation of 400 metres (1312 feet). Here a famous temple of JWALA MAIYA is situated. Jobner is also famous for the college Sri Karan Narendra College of Agriculture which was established by Rawal Narendra Singh in the year 1947.the college is also known as SKN College of Agriculture. it is a constituent campus of Rajasthan Agricultural University. it offers courses leading to B.Sc.(Ag.) Hons, M.Sc.(Ag.) and Ph.D. in Agriculture. The college has produced several lumineries in Indian Agriculture. The library of this college established in 1947, is attached to present extension department ,it has total collection of 42000 books and journals along with databases collection like CAB /AGRIS /AGRICOLA /PGRABST /and other audio visualCD . In 2004 Internet-CDROM unit has been started Presently Dr K M Krishna Asstt Librarian, Jewel of India, after 1996 ,he has taken new steps to improve and mordenise library by adding new infrastructures and new services like Reprographic unit ,Internet-CDROM unit ,Audio visualunit,Book Bank unit ,Periodical unit Old stack unit,CCTV systems of the library. He has been awarded jewel of india and eminent citizen award in 2006 for outstanding contributions in library and profession services

Demographics

As of 2001 India census, Jobner had a population of 10,496. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Jobner has an average literacy rate of 64%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 75%, and female literacy is 51%. In Jobner, 16% of the population is under 6 years of age.i ld

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